Michelle Kaufmann Designs, a path-breaking seller of modern, eco-friendly pre-fab homes, is folding due to the anemic housing market and the credit crisis at large.
Kaufmann's firm became synonymous with the contemporary ...READ»
The handsome home you see above represents the bleeding edge in green design: It's a "passive house," designed by Toronto's Paul Raff Studio. With "automated shades, passive ventilation and mature deciduous ...READ»
Modern architecture is no stranger to the greenhouse effect--the heat trapping ability of glass is what has often rendered so many modernist house by Mies van der Rohe and others extraodinariy expensive to cool. But this ...READ»