Adam Joseph Lewis Center, William McDonough + Partners Voted Greenest Building since 1980

When covering Vanity Fair's World Architecture Survey I asked "Where's The Green?" and wrote that there was a "profound disconnect between the architecture shown and the problems that architects have to solve today."

Lance Hosey, formerly a part

All Images by B. Alter: The Living Office

Research has shown that a healthy office space with plants and open windows is more conducive to productivity. Somehow we didn't need scientists to tell us that there is a link between flowers, plants, a pleasant environment and workplace satisfaction.

The outside of the European Environment Agency office in Copenhagen.

Joseph Ford and Antoine Mairot

Photographer Joseph Ford and 3D Artist Antoine Mairot turn tech into buildings, dropping a PS3 into Berlin, a classic NES and our favourite: a solar powered, glass roofed Nintendo DS.
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Blu Homes

Blu Homes' innovative folding technology has the promise of changing the way prefabricated homes are designed, as they break the width limitation set by road transport requirements. (see our earlier post here) But no matter how you slice it, every building technology generates a form that is the most efficient and effective.

The Papalote Kids Museum in Monterrey, Mexico, is getting a new extension for green education, and the building that will hold it is, of course, environmentally conscious (and beautiful!). ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Exterior of one of the zimmerbuses.

Over the next couple of years the Toronto Transit Commission is replacing a lot of its subway cars. Ryerson School of Interior Design student Heather Borozny notes that people are converting shipping containers into housing, so why not subway cars? After all they are longer and wider and already have windows. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photos: Next Project.

Conceito Next, a project for a new condominium in Brazilian beach destination Florianopolis is announced as the first to incorporate wind power for residential use.

An educational poster for distribution in Pakistan, depicting earthquake-safe construction techniques. Image via Dot Earth.

Growing up in California, I was never really scared of earthquakes -- they happened frequently and most caused little, if any, damage.