by Jaime – August 16, 2007 via Design-Milk.Com
Connecta and their roommates built this wood wall from a huge stack of cordwood from floor to ceiling. That’s so awesome.

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by Girl on The Avenue -August 14, 2007 via GreenRoofs.WordPress.Com
Sod roofs are back in style, according to a report in Oregon’s Mail Tribune. The report quotes the aptly-named Edmond Snodgrass, co-author of Green Roof Plants: a resource and planting guide (right), who runs Emory Knoll Farms, the first nursery in the US dedicated solely to [...]

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by whpthomas – August 14, 2007 via YouTube.Com
Hopefully this will give you some idea of how Jetrike rides. In the video I am riding Jetrike around the research station, reaching speeds of 37kmh and cornering at 22kmh (in two places) on a 2km loose gravel circuit. The road is a single lane and all the [...]

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by Girl on The Avenue – August 7, 2007 via GreenRoofs.WordPress.Com
Singapore is no stranger to green roofs. Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities president Geoff Wilson has written extensively on “food from-the-roof” technologies pioneered in Singapore, and vice-President Sidonie Carpenter has documented many Singapore roofs on her Green Roofs Fellowship blog.

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by Barbara J. Saffir – August 6, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

Burrowed 50 feet into a hillside near Washington, D.C., this former Federal Reserve Bank once held billions in cash. BAR Architects and SmithGroup have overseen its transformation into the new National Audio-Visual Conservation Center for the Library of Congress.
The nonprofit Packard Humanities [...]

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by Sarah – August 6, 2007 via Modern-Roost.Blogspot.Com
I did a lot of channel surfing this weekend. And something that caught my eye as I flipped through the stations is Bravo’s series, Welcome to the Parker.
The show follows the staff of the Parker, a gorgeous Palm Springs resort hotel, as they bend over backwards to cater [...]

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August 6, 2007 via GreenRoofs.WordPress.Com
22 businesses in Alberta, Canada, have teamed up to produce a 3,000-square-foot demonstration project: the Alberta Eco-Roof Initiative, reports Canada.com

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August 5, 2007 via dezeen.com
Here are new images of 100 11th Avenue, a residential tower in Chelsea, New York, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and which recently broke ground.

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August 2, 2007 – dezeen.com
More from Danish architects BIG: here are photos taken at an exhibition of their work organised by Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague.

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by Dianna Dilworth – August 1, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

Foster + Partners is designing the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city in Abu Dhabi. Named Masdar City, which means “the source,” the 1,483-acre project will include commercial and manufacturing space dedicated to developing ecofriendly products, housing, a university, and the headquarters for Future [...]

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