Latitude 38, a design and build firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia that is focused  on unique and environmentally friendly designs, designed the Montrose House, a sustainable house design. They collaborated with Roscos Architectural, to develop t…

Compete to reinvent a shipping container for Brooklyn’s new community market

Located in the heart of downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Street mall, the upcoming Dekalb Market will be home to a food market and incubator farm, restaurants, work-sel…

© Urs Peter FlueckigerThe concept: a prefabricated, sustainable design-build project by the College of Architecture, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University. The Sustainable Cabin, a living …

© Paul WarcholMorris Arboretum’s Tree Adventure exhibit Out on a Limb, designed by Metcalfe Architecture & Design, was the 2010 AIA Philadelphia Design Excellence Gold Medal Winner, 2010 AIA Pennsylvania Architectural Excellence Award, 2010 “B…

This is a real world and practical “green” project – nice work, and there’s a kit!
Refrigerators use more energy than any other appliance in a household. The US has over 200 million refrigerators running at this time. Our temperature controlle…

The Frigo, by GPOD (Gonçalo Prudêncio Office for Design) is a design experiment geared towards developing an outdoor fridge. Using the the sun as its only energy source, and dirt and plants as its insulation, the Frigo explores alternative ways of …

Wouldn’t it be fitting if your nutritious morning smoothie came with a side of exercise? Well it could, if you had this ingenious food processor designed by Christoph Thetford. Called the Kitchen Machine, the electricity-less appliance uses the phys…

Guest Post by Walt Barrett
A few weeks ago I was visiting a US Coast Guard Station where I looked at small solar battery charging installation. It was built to government specifications, and was an excellent example of a perfect solar installation. On…

Windows are one of the weakest points in a building’s energy profile. While great gains have been made over the last couple of decades, windows still have issues with allowing in heat when you don’t need it — or cutting it off when you do. The c…

File this one under More Krazy Koncept Products: Newspapers, which are made from wood, are themselves used to make “wood” in this project from a Dutch design house, Vij5. Or, to give it its accurate name, “NewspaperWood.” (PDF)
When a NewspaperWood log…