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Award-Winning Watercooled House for Singapore from Wallflower
Is Singapore’s Wallflower Architecture + Design leading the way to the innovative and responsible use of water cooling to replace air conditioning in high end residential design? Here is yet another example of this attractive and energy efficient technology, from Wallflower, who deservedly have won this year’s Singapore Institute of Architects Design Award for yet […]
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A Green Pervious Pathway That Lets the Rain Percolate Through
Here’s a natural-looking porous concrete for pathways. GraniteCrete is designed to retain water underneath the ground. Unlike most concrete that just keeps water on the surface, wasting it in runoff down city drains back to the ocean, this collects rainwater – just like dirt did before we paved it all over, yet, unlike dirt paths, […]
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Salvaged 1930’s Shack Makes Gorgeous Australian EcoHome
Australia’s Riddel Architecture demolished an old 1930’s house on a tiny riverside lot in Brisbane, Australia, and then built a new home reusing 80% of the salvaged materials. The remaining unusable pieces were taken away in just two skips. The roof, angled at just the right angle to the sun for optimum solar power has […]