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Supple Designs of Australia was given a unique brief by a residential client developing 900 lots west of Sydney: a building was needed to be a showcase to

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A few days ago we got word that the Herning Center of the Arts building, designed by Steven Holl, broke ground in Denmark. As with other projects by Holl,

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An increasing number of Americans are expressing interest in smaller space living; some owning homes under 100sq ft. One indicator of the trend is that instead of saying that tiny house owners are “downsizing”, those writing and speaking about little homes have coined the euphemism “rightsizing,” which more aptly describes how many view their choice to go small.

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LIFECYCLE BUILDING CHALLENGE: Pavilion in the Park

The winners for the Lifecycle Building Challenge were just announced last week with Seattle's 'Pavilion in the Park' building taking top honors, and for

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If there ever were a building in the world that should be as green as possible, the United Nations Headquarters in New York would probably be it. The good

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If you took conventional stud and drywall interiors and rethought them to be so precise that there was minimal construction waste, made them easy to move and reconfigure, and thought of them as a platform for plug and play sustainable furnishings, then you might share some of the same brain power as the folks at DIRTT Environmental Solutions