green architecture

Maximum Sex Appeal, Minimum Carbon Footprint

Cliff Kuang — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:15:21 -0500

C.F. Møller Architects, a powerhouse Danish firm, has taken the grand-prize in a competition to design a totally zero-energy housing development for Denmark's Aalborg waterfront.

The 11th Commandment: Sustainability, for a House of God

Cliff Kuang — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:39:17 -0400

You'd never guess by it's austere, simple looks, but the recently completed Field Chapel in Boedigheim, Germany represents the cutting edge in sustainable design.

Four Architecural Visions of the Green House of the Future

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:25:36 -0400

The Wall Street Journal recently challenged architects to design a green house of the future. This morning, the paper unloaded the designs, that come from four firms: William McDonough, Rios Clemente Hale, Cook + Fox and Mouzon Design. Here they are:

Shenzhen Building To Be One Huge Multimedia Screen, Solar Power Station

Kit Eaton — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:48:20 -0500

The winner of a competition to design a new building for the China Insurance Group has just been announced, and the winning design is a truly futuristic-sounding creation. Shenzhen "4 Tower in 1," from Coop Himmelb(l)au will be a 49-storey solar-power-generating monster that has a multimedia projection outer layer.

What Might a Green Shopping Mall Look Like?

Cliff Kuang — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:57:00 -0500

Apparently, the idea of a green shopping mall isn't an utter absurdity. Sparch Architects has just finished designing a million-square-foot shopping mall for Kuala Lampur, and their vision is maximally green, and maximally livable. The building is to be an anchor for an urban revival.

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

Danielle Sacks — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:14 -0400

The paparazzi should have been hiding in the hedges that evening. Cindy Crawford, Goldie Hawn, John Mayer, and some 50 other Hollywood and media types were gathered in the Malibu home of one of L.A.'s biggest power brokers, Universal Studios president Ron Meyer, and his wife, Kelly. The guest of honor at this 2005 dinner party: William McDonough. "He is," Kelly Meyer tells me later, "the environmental architect of our time."