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Black Tree – A Solar Charging Station
Conceived by architect Milos Milivojevic for a public park in Serbia, this tree-like park folly cleverly supports a solar panel canopy with its sculptural trunk and branches. The canopy is angled to...
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Solar Services
The recent past is full of paradigms that are obsolete, including the idea that residential photovoltaic solar arrays are extremely expensive systems to purchase install, and maintain. Gone are the...
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Book Review – Getting Green Done
Did you ever wonder how a ski resort can call itself sustainable? Auden Schendler, the Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Resorts, has to answer this question often. In his book, Getting Green...
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Home Economics: The Urban Partnership at the Bullitt Center
The 1987 United Nations report “Our Common Future,” defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet...
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Follow Up: The New Edible Landscape
It looks like Leslie’s tips on starting your own edible garden have garnered some serious attention. In the April 2013 issue of Sunset, one of Leslie’s projects is featured as one of ten ways to get...
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Sinker Cypress
Historic photo of old growth Bald Cypress grove in Florida. Sinker Cypress is one of the most stunning and beautiful woods that we at Arc Wood & Timbers have the honor to reclaim and custom mill...
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Happy Earth Day: Why LEED for Homes?
Caterpillar House by Feldman Architecture earned LEED Platinum certification in the LEED for Homes program in 2011. Photo by Joe Fletcher. At Feldman Architecture, we have been fortunate to have...
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Urban Greening – Chicago
This is the first post in a new series about different efforts to reclaim unused spaces in urban areas. A rendering of the future Bloomingdale Trail. Chicago is on the verge of something big. The Windy...
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Green Architecture Infographics
We’ve come across a few good infographics in the past couple of weeks, so we thought we would share them here. The first comes from Autodesk’s blog, and talks all about how green building is good for...
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High Time for the Lowline
What does it mean to be “green” 20 feet underground? This is the question being addressed by the Lowline, a proposal for 60,000 square feet of subterranean public space in an abandoned trolley...
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