Posts Tagged ‘sustainable design’
Shangri-la Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, Orange, Texas, Photo Courtesy of Hester + Hardaway Photography
The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (COTE) invites electronic submission of built projects and chose ten that represent the most innovative examples of green building. The website consists of a search-able database with detailed information about each building’s design process, cost, land use, water conservation, energy use, materials, and LEED ratings.
Tags: green, green architecture, LEED, sustainability, sustainable design
Posted by Joan Winter on November 20, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
TED’s A Greener Future? page includes 53 videos of lectures delivered by leading scholars, designers and activists engaged in the debate over the environment and climate change. Al Gore, Cameron Sinclair, Norman Foster, and others discuss a wide range of topics including global mass extinctions, sustainable food culture and urban design.
Tags: climate change, food culture, green building, sustainability, sustainable design, TED, urban, urban design, urban planning, urban renewal, urbanism, video
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 3, 2009 in architecture, landscape | No Comments »
LeedVisuual “synthesizes information about USGBC’s credits into pictorial format.”
The site breaks down the credits – whether water efficient landscaping or innovation in design - and presents infographics that make the accreditation process easy to understand and therefore achieve.
Tags: green, green architecture, green building, LEED, sustainability, sustainable design, USGBC
Posted by Joan Winter on October 16, 2009 in architecture, landscape | No Comments »
Death by Architecture assembles current information about a broad spectrum of architectural competitions in addition to hosting an extensive resource list linking to blogs and other sites featuring information about design, materials, and construction.
Tags: architecture, competitions, design resources, lanscape architecture, professional resources, sustainability, sustainable design, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 7, 2009 in architecture, blog, landscape | No Comments »
Nonprofit media organization Worldchanging asks “What does it mean to build bright green structures for the 21st Century?” This online writer/journalist collective focuses on chronicling and questioning architectural, community planning, political, and corporate methods of affecting environmental and social change across the globe.
Tags: green building, sustainability, sustainable design, Worldchanging
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 6, 2009 in architecture, blog, landscape | No Comments »
Architecture for Humanity is a nonprofit design services firm building a more sustainable future through the power of professional design. A network of more than 40,000 professionals work with communities around the world on site specific projects from a basketball court with an integrated rainwater collection system in Mahiga, Kenya to housing projects in Biloxi, Mississippi in response to damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Architecture for Humanity also promotes the proliferation of sustainable architecture through chapter projects, competitions and workshops.
Tags: competitions, green building, humanitarianism, non-profit, Professional Associations, professional development, sustainability, sustainable design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 2, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
The urbanSHED International Design Competition challenges the global design community to create a new standard of sidewalk shed design and develop a prototype worthy of today’s New York City. Together the New York City Buildings Department, American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, Alliance for Downtown New York, New York Building Congress, Illuminating Engineering Society New York Chapter, ABNY Foundation, Structural Engineers Association of New York, New York City Department of Planning and New York City Department of Transportation invite engineers, architects, designers and students to participate in this open competition, generating innovative, compelling and environmentally-friendly proposals to re-imagine temporary sidewalk sheds that improve the pedestrian experience.
Tags: environmental design, New York City, public art, public space, sidewalk shed, sustainable design, temporary architecture, urbanSHED International Design Competition
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 8, 2009 in architecture, landscape | No Comments »
The Austin-based Clean Tech Training Center offers workshops in solar installation, as well as educational opportunities to learn more about renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, and smart grid ). Clean Tech Training Center even offers a course, Photovoltaic Essentials, through UT Austin’s Informal Classes.
Tags: green building, informal classes, solar, sustainable design, workshops
Posted by Joan Winter on July 28, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
In an effort to increase green construction, the city of Austin and Austin Energy have launched an education series which will elucidate how buildings can be better designed with their environments in mind.
Associate Professor of Architecture, Werner Lang, reiterated the impact of building construction on our natural resources in an article from the Daily Texan. “I think the main message everyone should get from all this is to touch the Earth lightly,” Lang said. “Touch it in such a way that future generations can use its resources responsibly.”
Tags: Austin, Daily Texan, energy efficiency, green building, sustainability, sustainable design, Werner Lang
Posted by Joan Winter on June 9, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
Thursday, April 30th, the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy is hosting the Shaping the Energy Technology Transition workshop in the Santa Rita Room at the Texas Union. This workshop will discuss emerging energy technologies, measures to reduce the environmental and economic impact of a continuing dependence on carbon-based fuels, and policy options related to their adoption. Scheduled from 9-3:30, this workshop is open to the public.
Tags: energy technology, engineering, sustainability, sustainable design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 29, 2009 in architecture | No Comments »
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