GeoIsla

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]