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Building self-sustaining structures entails construction methods that consider on-site green power aggregates.
Architects of the Discovery Tower in Houston, Texas agree. For such is the plan of this 30-story office building, about to go up at 1501 McKinney Street. According to JetsonGreen, the construction project will reach upward of $300 million. For that price tag the [...]

by Cate Trotter

Not settling for mere zero-energy, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill’s Masdar Headquarters are setting new design standards for green building, with their scheme that generates more energy than it consumes. The Masdar Headquarters building outside of Abu Dhabi is also the first building in history to generate power for its own assembly, using [...]

By Alexis Madrigal
02.27.08 | 6:30 PM

Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

The old model for making a home is to dump a bunch of wood and drywall at a job site and assemble the house in situ. But a growing number of builders, like Parco Homes and Michelle Kaufman, want to revamp that process and create Lego-like homes that [...]

With the growing need for more dense sustainable housing, we can only hope that more developers will take a cue from Phoenix-based Modus Development and their latest residences, The Galleries at Turney. Thanks to some thoughtful insight from Modus president, Ed Gorman, what once contained two old homes on overgrown lots now contain eight [...]