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This sustainable House of Maple was designed by Edward Suzuki Architecture, built in a mountain resort of Karuizawa, Japan, about an hour of rapid train from Tokyo. A lot of sustainable features and green architecture ideas were applied in this house.

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Castaway House is a renovation project in Phoenix, Arizona, done by The Ranch Mine. Sustainable design concepts were applied, makes this house the first project to be gold certified under the Phoenix Green Construction Code.

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Orange Groove Apartment Building is a sustainable architecture building covers 5 units of apartment, designed by Brooks + Scarpa. It has modern and simple design to meet demand for decent loft space in the area. Some sustainable strategies are applied here.

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Rainbow Duplex is a sustainable home built by Durfeld Constructors in collaboration with BC Passive House (BCPH). It was designed by Marken Projects Inc. This eco construction actually adopts passive design and prefab prefabricated panelized system.

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This is REOSE SunShower SSIP House, a sustainable prefab house designed by Judith Kinnard and Tiffany Lin, from Tulane University.  This home won a a competition involving steel SIPs from OceanSafe.  This home was designed to deal with extreme weather conditions and good energy efficiency.

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This is a showhouse built by Effect Home Builders, located in Belgravia neighborhood of Edmonton.  This house actually is a sustainable house, with net-zero energy. With its sustainable features, this house may provide high energy efficiency, and reducing the need of fossil fuel.

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This green architecture design of Kiwi House was made by Comma-Q. This 823 sq ft house, a tiny house, is located in Bozeman, Montana, owned by Stephen and Julie Shea. It was constructed on an infill lot, with several materials taken from local area, completed with some sustainable features.

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Peconic Bay House is a sustainable house designed by Resolution: 4 Architecture. It is a two-story prefab house, adopting the saddlebag element to accommodate vertical circulation and service items. It was designed to have high efficiency on energy with a lot of sustainable features applied.

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Greenhalgh House  is a sustainable home designed by CCS Architecture , located  in the Alpine Meadows area near Lake Tahoe, California.  Actually this is a second home for the owner, Todd Greenhalgh, who needs an efficiency of the house’s performance and the view, regarding the needs of a retreat home.

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A sustainable house was designed by Ignatov Architects in Bulgaria. It was designed with some aspects to create a good fusion between the land, human, light, and the environment. This house is completed with unique sloped big windows to maximize the sun lighting. Passive design was really considered.

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