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From MoCo Loco:
We often get books by mail at MoCo Loco, but today we got one via email, the “First Paperless Architecture Book EVER: Piel”. Piel.Skin is the culmination of two years of architectural research into dynamic facades, ventilated, high-tech or traditional composites with new features. “This book shows that currently new skins not only [...]

by Jason Sahler

2005’s Solar Decathlon blew us away, but we were particularly fascinated by a stunning Solar House from Cornell University. This team brought a beautiful zero-energy home to the mall in Washington, D.C., and had just launched ZeroEnergy Design, a home design firm focused on zero-energy design. Continuing their momentum as green home design [...]

El arquitecto celebra siete años de diseño sustentable.
Por Eileen Rivera Esquilín / erivera1@elnuevodia.com

Diseñar, construir y vivir la primera Casa Ecológica de Puerto Rico -o Casa Ausente, como él la bautizó- ha sido sin duda una experiencia enriquecedora para el arquitecto Fernando Abruña.
Con ésta, quería demostrar que una casa sustentable no es exclusiva de parajes rurales, [...]

By Alexander Trevi

For a more sober take on urban farming than Work AC’s agro-fantasia, check out this project by Mossop+Michaels for a Vietnamese-American community in New Orleans. Today, it garnered a 2008 ASLA Professional Award.
Quoting the brief in part:
The Viet Village Urban Farm project represents an effort to reestablish the tradition of local farming [...]

Written by Kristin Dispenza
Published on April 1st, 2008

On April 4th, the architecture and planning firm of Weber + Thompson will move into its new headquarters, located at the intersection of Thomas Street and Terry Avenue in the South Lake Union neighborhood of downtown Seattle.
The firm sees its new headquarters as an emblem of its sustainable [...]