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Icebergs Become Iconic Architecture In Denmark

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With its Iceberg project, Denmark's second city acquires a waterfront skyline that the world will recognize. Read more →

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Iran Apartment No. 1: A Condo Made-a Stone-a

"Apartment No. 1," in the stonecutting city of Mahallat, is mode almost entirely of waste stone. Image by Omid Khodapanahi via AbCT.

Stonecutting produces an appalling amount of waste, but an architecture firm in Iran has proven that the leftover scraps can still be useful building materials. Read more →

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Oregon Reclaimed Wood Company Shows Recycling At Its Best

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Viridian Reclaimed Wood carves out a high-end market niche by taking on the shipping industry's recycling for them. Read more →

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Northwest Beach Community To Launch Sunset ‘Idea Town’

An artist's rendering of one Seabrook's completed Idea Town homes on the Washington Coast. Image via Seabrook.

The coastal town of Seabrook, Wash., is nearing completion of a sustainable cluster of New Urbanist homes to be showcased in Sunset magazine's October issue. Read more →

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Move Over, Styrofoam; The Fungi Are Here

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A young company sets out to eliminate disposable plastics, using mushroom kits. Don't laugh. Read more →

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Plan For Tallest Building In India Takes Wing

The alarmingly thin Imperial Tower plan would act like a vertical wing, breaking up air currents. Image via Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture.

At 1,312 feet tall, Mumbai's proposed Imperial Tower will be among the world's tallest, but what may be most striking is its narrow width and wing-like shape to reduce turbulence. Read more →

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Perfecting Wood By Curing It

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Cured wood products from Accoya and Kebony turn wood into a nearly ideal building material. Read more →

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Low-Cost Moladi System Builds Sturdy African Villages

This modular, injection-molded concrete house can be built in as little as one day. Image via Moladi.

South Africa's Moladi concrete system can construct an affordable, one-story home using mostly local materials and unskilled labor, sometimes in as little as a single day. Read more →

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Former San Antonio Brewery Finds New Mixed-Use Life

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The former Pearl Brewery has been transformed into a sustainable mixed-use district that uses solar power and water conservation systems to reduce its energy demands. Read more →

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The Umbrellas Of Shanghai: Building A Better Sun Shade

Artist's conception of the new sun-shade cladding on Shanghai's Madrid Pavilion. Image via 3Gatti Architecture Studio.

Italian firm 3Gatti used local sun parasol designs as inspiration for the new sun shading mechanisms that will be added to Shanghai's converted Madrid Pavilion. Read more →

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