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by Mike Chino

San Franciscans rejoice! The Transbay Joint Powers Authority just approved a stunning green design for the new Transbay Transit Center to be constructed in downtown SF. Planned by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the project consists of a graceful glass tower paired with an elegantly sweeping transit center topped with a five-and-a-half acre public [...]

Mañana se llevará a cabo un recorrido guiado por la edificación.

Por El Nuevo Día
El condominio El Monte en Hato Rey será el foco de atención en el recorrido arquitectónico que llevará a cabo mañana domingo, a partir de las 2:00 p.m., el Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico.
El mismo será guiado [...]

By Alexis Madrigal 03.18.08 | 8:45 PM

Engineers Malcolm Knapp and Heather Fleming helped design a low-cost turbine that will be deployed in the rural areas surrounding Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second largest city.
Photo courtesy Jim Merithew/Wired.com
A group of volunteer engineers are finishing the design for a home-brewed wind turbine that will bring electricity to [...]

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 [...]