GeoIsla

by Mahesh Basantani

We’ve seen a whole slew of gigantic, volcano shaped, city-in-a-building towers, each promising to be the largest building in the world. First it was the wacky X-Seed design for Tokyo, and then even Norman Foster got into the game with his proposal for the massive ‘Crystal Island’ development in Moscow. Well now, [...]

“Green Schemes” offers design ideas on four scales: building, street, neighborhood, and community area. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Illinois at Chicago)
ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2008) — The University of Illinois at Chicago’s City Design Center has produced a 96-page electronic publication illustrating ideas for green development in East Garfield Park as a case study [...]

In an ambitious move, a Californian utility plans to create a massive, distributed “powerplant” by installing a total of 2 square miles of solar cells on the roofs of businesses. Southern California Edison plans to install 250 megawatts’ worth of solar power, generating enough electricity to power 162,000 homes.

Green Wombat reports:
It’s a potentially game-changing move, [...]

The location is on the edge of the planned 650 apartments which was finished year ago. Also this apartment block is social type and was sold to Slovenian Housing Fund.
The given urban plot of the building was 4 floors high, 58 meters long and 15 in width.
Since the orientation of the building is towards the [...]

Por Ileana López Avilés / Especial para Construcción

Concepto artístico del San Juan Waterfront, un ejemplo de cómo se pueden integrar varios elementos en el desarrollo de un plan de rehabilitación.
“El propósito de este plan es darle integración, y sentido de pertenencia, a las personas que ya habitan en Ciudad Mayor, pero que aún no [...]