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Exploded Hill to House Taipei Art Museum

The most exciting submission for the International Competition for the New Taipei City Museum of Art is a proposal to house a museum for art inside an exploded hill shape: “ARTSCAPE.”

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Modest + Sustainable Ski Chalet is A Rebuke to Ostentatious Neighbors

The skiing industry is one that is threatened by climate change, as many of the regions previously known for great skiing are already losing their snow cover. (Other ski areas in other regions will actually have increased snowfall as some regions have been predicted to see heavier precipitation, as climate change adds more water vapor [...]

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Cooling Needs Meet Ancient Building Code with Simple Tech

Here’s a beautiful and natural way to cool a house in a hot climate, and a lovely way to blend a rainwater harvester into the natural terrain and in the process reduce the visual impact of the building on the surrounding landscape from Global Architectural Development. The solution? Hide the house under its own huge [...]

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Design Dilemma: Sustainable Decorating

There seems to be an inherent conflict in decorating and staying true to sustainable values. On the one hand, you want to stay green and do what’s good for the earth. But somehow, that doesn’t seem to go along with buying drapes and a new rug. Can you decorate withoutÂ hurting the environment?Â Our answer: yes, with [...]

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Serenbe Reinvents a Traditional Walkable Community in The South

Taking a step back to an earlier time, Serenbe’s lovely sustainable community of new old houses is designed to provide a 21st century green masterplan that skips the strip-mall suburban horror of 20th century design and simply takes us back to our founding era. At least for

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