An alternative to expensive home renovations: Shipping containers
During the pandemic, homes became multi-functional spaces: With people working and children studying from home, traditional living areas were transformed into offices, classrooms, and quarantining...
Triple Net-Zero Development Going Up in Albany
According to Garrison Architects, The Seventy-Six is the first "triple net-zero (energy, water and waste) housing development in the United States."1 But the firm's new...
It’s Not So Hard to Build Quality Housing, Just Follow the Recipe
The standard trope is that building healthy, ultra-efficient housing is expensive and difficult, and that the houses are not attractive. Oh, and they can be...
What’s A Passive Solar House?
A passive solar house is typically designed from scratch factoring in several considerations to boost the structure’s ability to naturally keep the interior living spaces...
The battle over climate change is boiling over on the home front
Municipalities want new buildings to go all electric, spurning gas-fired stoves and heating systems. The gas industry disagrees
Solar panels, digital tech, green roofs: How buildings are changing
In the future, buildings will need to be functional, eye-catching and sustainable.
A new initiative could make cities more biodiverse: Here’s how
The need to transform the relationship between cities and nature has become ever more urgent. Over half of the world’s population lives in cities, with...
Linear City Proposed as ‘Solution To Our Ecological Problems’
Like Chambless a hundred years earlier, Gauthier puts the transport system at the bottom, but in three layers: a local metro/subway, a regular train, and...