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Seattle’s Super-Green Bullitt Center Opened on Earth Day

Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Yesterday, on Earth Day, Seattle's latest green building celebrated its grand opening: The Bullitt Center, a super-efficient office space at 1501 East Madison Street, was designed to become the world’s largest functioning, commercial Living Building, using an estimated 83 percent less energy than a typical Seattle office building and…

AIA Selects 2013 COTE Top Ten Green Projects

Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013
The top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions have been selected by the American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) today. The COTE Top Ten Green Projects program, now in its 17th year, celebrates projects that are the result of a thoroughly…

Green Design Shines at Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up Awards

Posted: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
How does one apply 21st century green design to a city with sites and structures dating from the 17th to 19th centuries? That was exactly the challenge for teams in the Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up design competition, and on March 7, 2013, nine finalist teams presented proposals…

Results of tur(i)ntogreen International Student Design Competition

Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The winners of the tur(i)ntogreen international design competition were recently announced in Turin, Italy. Organized by the Research and Documentation Center in Technology, Architecture and City in Developing Countries at the Politecnico di Torino, the competition had invited university students from around the world to develop…

Winners of Transiting Cities - Low Carbon Futures Competition 

Posted: Monday, January 21, 2013
A few days ago, we published one of the finalist entries of the international design ideas competition, Transiting Cities - Low Carbon Futures. The competition was open to designers from around the world; landscape architects, architects, urban planners and associated design disciplines to develop innovative visions for…

Transiting Cities - Finalist Entry “Networked Ecologies: Rethinking Remediation”

Posted: Friday, January 11, 2013
Last fall, the international research project and design ideas competition, "Transiting Cities - Low Carbon Futures," had invited designers and academic institutions from various fields to envision new, innovative and alternative cities of the near future by defining opportunities for transition into low carbon, prosperous, and vibrant communities.…

Winners of innatur_2 Ideas Competition

Posted: Wednesday, January 02, 2013
The winning entries have been announced in the second edition of the innatur ideas competition. Organized by Spanish architecture platform OPENGAP, the contest invited designers to submit innovative and thoughtful strategies of implementing architecture in a protected natural environment.

Six Projects to Receive 2013 SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design

Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Winners of the 2013 international SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design were announced yesterday. SEED Awards recognize excellence in social, economic, and environmental design, and represent the collaborations needed to create truly sustainable projects and change in the world. Six projects were selected out of sixty-five…

SafetyNet Wins First Prize at 2012 James Dyson Awards

Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2012
One winner and two runners-up have today been announced at this year's edition of the James Dyson Awards, an international student design award running in 18 countries. The first prize went to the entry 'SafetyNet - Escape Rings' from the UK. The two runners-up were the design…

Pop Rocks: Soft Urban Boulder Field

Posted: Thursday, October 04, 2012
Vancouver hosted a fascinating hybrid of public spatial art and waste material upcycling in its downtown area this summer: Pop Rocks, a temporary installation that covered a full city block. The project is fabricated entirely from post-consumer and post-industrial waste from the metropolitan Vancouver region. The installation, an equal…

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