Sustainable Hotel Erected in Six Days

Ark Hotel Building construction timelapse 远大可持续建筑 2天建成15层楼 from Differentenergy on Vimeo. This mesmerizing time-lapse video clip shows the rapid construction of the Ark Hotel in Changsha, China. Its not amazing that this clip has been making the Internet rounds – it is amazing that a 15-story hotel could be erected in just under a week. [...]

Denmark’s carbon neutral buildings

Copenhagen:  We’ve heard of green buildings now the concept of carbon neutral buildings is catching up. These buildings actually consume seventy per cent less energy than regular buildings. A public building in Denmark is the first to go carbon neutral. This is going to be the new level of green architecture in the coming future. [...]

Synagogue Turned East Village Penthouse

Living in New York City requires that your home be your sanctuary. There are numerous paths to this destination, but one lucky couple, Dominique Camacho and Gary Hirschkron, actually live in a sanctuary — more specifically a retro-fitted synagogue. The building, located in East Village, was a synagogue until the 1980s, when it was retrofitted [...]

10 Best Bamboo Bikes For Style and Performance

Love them! Bamboo not only makes for beautiful bikes, it is one of the greener building materials we’ve got: It has a low CO2 footprint compared to aluminum and steel, is renewable, and even biodegradable (though hard to imagine how it would biodegrade with all those layers of lamination). Yes, bamboo isn’t perfect — often [...]

The Destination to Search & Source Sustainable Style

For aspiring green designers, here is new resource for your fabrics! Visit Source4Style: The Premiere Destination to Search & Source Sustainable Style.

Living Rooms – A Home for the Future

This looks amazing!  Perhaps one day we will see such homes in Asia and Singapore… Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus, a solar-powered home that won the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe, provides a glimpse into future living. Take a tour through the home and listen to Joe Wheeler, one of three primary faculty members who worked on the [...]

Railing for a Special Green Corridor in Singapore

I read this online ST Forum article espousing the benefits of converting the soon-to-be abandoned Malayan Railway into a green corridor and thought this is a great idea worth discussing further. The benefits of green corridors (we call them Park Connectors here) for green connectivity and for healthy lifestyle activities is common knowledge. We can [...]