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Visualizing The Carbon In Our Built Environment

Architecture 2030's plan is for all buildings to proudly announce how many emissions it required to build them, to operate them, and to eventually tear them down. READ»

Apple: Does This Spaceship Make My Glass Look Big?

Apple's proposed new "spaceship" building in Cupertino features curved glass and an engineering challenge that makes solving the antennagate and white iPhone problems look cinchy.READ»

Google Amps Up 3-D Digital London to Delight Royal Wedding Watchers

Google's taken another step toward the Matrix, wrapped in white ribbons for the Royal Wedding, in a tricked out map of London with super-real 3-D representations of buildings and parks along the procession route.READ»

Los Angeles Has the Country's Most Energy Efficient Buildings

Los Angeles, land of excess and big cars, just gained a whole lot of green credibility with the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 ranking of energy-efficient buildings. Believe it or not, L.A. has more Energy Star-labeled ...READ»

Cash for Clunker Buildings

The feds should take a page from the California playbook (again!) and pay for inspections, training, and tune ups of older buildings.READ»

Guide to Daylighting for Buildings

A Canadian Funding Corp representative offers the following summary on the subject of daylighting for buildings.READ»

Poetic Dutch School Has Writing on the Wall, And the Floor, Tables...

Dutch architects i29 and Snelder have designed a school that inverts everything about traditional education buildings. Gone are wall posters and noticeboards, institutional green paint schemes and a jumble of colors. Instead, it's ...READ»

Energy Misers are Good for your Health

Got a manager--or a dad--who insists on keeping the thermostat cranked down in the winter and way up in the summer? Thank them. Energy efficient cooling and heating settings do more than just save money--they also preserve health. ...READ»