published March 14, 2009 and has No Comments
Image courtesy of Urban Re:Vision . We at TreeHugger have been following Urban Re:Vision 's innovative design competitions for a while now. First, they set out to rethink the basics: energy, community, transport. Now they're out to put the ideas they've collected into action. Re:Vision Dallas , their latest competition, which challenges visionaries to design a radically sustainable city ...
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
The low cost of vinyl windows helped make McMansions possible In March, 2005 John Laumer wrote a defense of vinyl windows: Look Out Any Window ; in March , 2006 I suggested that he was wrong in A Year Ago in TreeHugger: A Defence of Vinyl . In March, 2007 I ate some of my words in Vinyl Windows: ...
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
This truly is the greatest thing since Ron Webb of Archigram's Suitaloon, (shown below the fold)- Industrial and fashion designer Justin Gargasz has developed a jacket that unfolds into a tent. Talk about carrying your house on your back!...
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Carry Your House on Your Back With Vessel by Justin Gargasz
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Michael Falco for The New York Times Times are tough all over, and even the normally over-the-top New York Times homes section is getting the message. The theme today is the Three Hundred Dollar Makeover , full of tips that one might find in Craft or Make but the Times? It is hit or miss- making a "rug" on ...
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published March 11, 2009 and has No Comments
Perkins & Co. Architects via the Tyee Designing flexible, affordable housing is a challenge that architects have not often risen to successfully- Apartment designs are usually fixed and people have to move a lot. That is why the designs recently approved in Burnaby, BC are so intriguing; they are purported to be the first legalized secondary suites within apartments. ...
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