Koichi Torimura

Some people love their cars, so much that they wish they could be in their living room. But what if you have nine of them? Japanese architect Takuya Tsuchida had such a client, who also said "Oh, and the living room needs a tall tree."...Read the full story on TreeHugger

In Leiden, the Netherlands, Paul de Ruiter Architects are building a parking structure. It is made of "recyclable" materials so that it can be taken down in ten or twenty years when the land is redeveloped.

Vision Zero

Houses of the future just aren't what they used to be. These days, the vision of the future people want to see is exactly what they have now, the big suburban house with a three car garage. So that is what Dow Chemical and Cobblestone Homes created with their Vision Zero demonstration project.

Smart Cup

A french press system makes a good cup of coffee. According to the Smart Cup people, it "places coffee grounds in direct contact with hot water and that offers a larger surface area for extraction. They are then pressed with mesh, not filtered with paper.