Tag Archives : Green Architecture

If you own a neglected farm house in some country stretch, there is a lot that you can do with it. Here is a story of a scientist couple, Charles Homcy and Diana Sylvestre, who bought such property in the year 2002 in Sonoma for a price of just $1.2 million. As of today they now have two modern, glassy homes spread over a sprawling area of as much 25 [...]

Samyn and Partners worked together with Patrick Blanc and came up with this cool green Vertical Garden Workspace that can also dub as a house since it does not lack on space. The green vertical garden workspace/house has been completed after 8 years of construction and it stands green and gorgeous in Linkebeek, Belgium. The original plan was to use [...]

Green construction and eco-architecture is where the future lies for any budding architect, who is busy drawing up those rough sketches. Modern building techniques along with the use of revolutionary new materials has meant that today we can give shape to structures that are both planet-friendly and maximize on available space and resources. Created [...]

We have all heard about the rotating house or flats and have seen too. However, a rising trend has been to build offices that rotate, each floor independently of the other. The Dynamic Towers in Dubai was perhaps one of the first rotating buildings we saw. This time around, there have been apartment complexes and office towers that have each of their [...]

Janne Saario, a student at an architecture school in Helsinki has created ‘The Mill’ an architectural innovation of sorts. The design is exclusively done for those who are into kayaking and river rafting. When paddling the kayak becomes cumbersome, paddlers can seek refuge in this quaint shelter, which Saario calls The Mill. The design [...]

Green Architecture is the direction towards which every architect and designer is heading and it is no surprise that many of the modern cities of the world are now becoming sandboxes for these green architects to experiment and express themselves. Eco-friendly construction is reaching new heights that are in fact becoming structures far more attractive [...]