"below is the recently (2003) extended runway at funchal airport in madeira. the original 1400m runway was notoriously short and, as a result, sometimes dangerous for landing planes. the runway extension won the iabse’s ‘outstanding structures award’ and rightly so: due to an obvious lack of land, engineers have supported the extension on 180 pillars, each 70m high. on the last photo you can see what seems to be a car park that now lives under the end of the runway."

Submitted by stella - 2008-01-31 12:46:39
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"I’ve heard of students roughing it, but sleeping in freight containers? That’s right. Only it’s not a case of desperate living or some torturous fraternity hazing — it’s a very cool, very useful idea developed by a Dutch company called TempoHousing."

Submitted by stella - 2007-10-01 19:44:45
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Tags - design architecture housing

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A short computer graphic movie featuring the Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece

Submitted by stella - 2007-09-10 19:51:19
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"Imagine maintaining a steady 70 degrees in your house high in the New Mexico desert, even as outside temperatures vary between 100 and minus-20, all without spending a dime on power."

Submitted by jason - 2007-08-08 16:44:59
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Tags - home green energy architecture reuse earthship

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Check out this unusual house.

Submitted by stella - 2007-06-25 20:46:45
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Interesting article on Wired about the design of a new Chinese metropolis, built from scratch as a model for a green city.

From the article:
Dongtan's master plan — hundreds of pages of maps, schematics, and data — has almost nothing to say about architectural style. Instead, it outlines the world's first green city, every block engineered in response to China's environmental crisis. It's like the source code for an urban operating system. "We're not focused on the form," Gutierrez explains. "We're focused on the performance of the form." He and his team imagine a city powered by local, renewable energy, with superefficient buildings clustered in dense, walkable neighborhoods; a recycling scheme that repurposes 90 percent of all waste; a network of high tech organic farms; and a ban on any vehicle that emits CO2.

Submitted by jason - 2007-05-09 15:50:42
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Tags - green city china architecture pilot development

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This 96 sq. ft. home is actually pretty sweet. It's small, but heck, this guy made things work.

Submitted by stella - 2007-04-29 21:12:46
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Tags - homes architecture

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