A beautiful eco house building, called House Ocho was designed by Feldman Architecture and was built in Carmel, California in 2004 by Groza Construction. This 2,900 sq ft sustainable house is located in an area with seismic activity. The environment is still kept to be natural with vegetations and the beautiful view from the hill. Also, to achieve good sustainability, several features are provided, especially a special green roof.
A product of tile by Buzzispace, called BuzziTile, can be a good choice to make a room more colorful and beautiful. It is a 3D tile, made from green material.
A container studio was designed by Jim Poteet from Poteet Architects. This container studio is used for a playhouse, a garden retreat, also a guesthouse in San Antonio.
A sustainable and luxury Kahala Home has been developed in Honolulu, located on the beach near Diamond Head State Monument. It was designed by Longhouse Development, LLC and Long & Associates Architects. This house achieves LEED Gold certificate
Another sustainable prefab house design by mkdesigns (acquired by Blu Homes), this is mkGlidehouse®. This type of prefab house is built by using the most modern technology and also the most environmental friendly materials. It can be built in as little as 10 to 14 months at a cost comparable to or below traditional site-built homes. (more…)
Prefab house called mkLotus® was designed by Michelle Kaufmann Designs (acquired by Blu Homes) . This home offers the latest high performance systems and some sustainable features that make this home a peaceful oasis. The sustainable features including sustainable materials and methods that make this home very environmental friendly.
mkLotus® is built by using off-site modular high technology. It is very flexible to be customize.
Another modular green school building was designed by Anderson Anderson Architecture for Harvard Yard Child Care Center (HYCCC). Harvard Yard is a non-profit, cooperative child care center and preschool, serving children from three months through 5 years of age, in Cambridge, MA. The center is Harvard affiliated though not Harvard operated. As a school, healthy, clean, eco friendly indoor environment should be provided. Anderson Anderson Architecture provides those kinds of environment for HYCCC by carefully selecting materials, equipment and construction methods.
Surry Hills Library and Community Centre was designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Architect. It is located on 405 Crown Street, Surry Hills, New South Wales. It is a new type of “hybrid” building for Sydney where a public library / resource centre, flexible and specialist community space and childcare are integrated in one facility. The architectural context is also diverse: residential apartments, terrace housing, shops and commercial/industrial premises vary in scale though their architectural style is predominantly Victorian. It has been designed to achieve excellence in sustainable design and set new high standards in environmental performance for multi-purpose public buildings.
