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Photographs: Courtesy Olson Kundig Architects Ar. Jim Olson's residential dwelling in a Californian hillside exudes his archetypal communiqué with site and surrounding, climate and culture... "Peacefulness and harmony are radical in today's world because they have become so rare. I want to bring harmony and love of nature back as an everyday experience."

Being an architect with a natural affinity for art and nature, I have generally always followed my instinctual responses to a space and its surroundings. I find great inspiration from nature and art. I see the landscape, architecture, interiors, and art as one integrated design statement.

By Pari Syal Photography: Courtesy Eram Scientific E-Toilet christened "Delight" is India's technological answer to public sanitation ensuring cleanliness, sustainability and efficient maintenance. Scarcity of toilets has not been the crippling issue in our country; it is the lack of maintenance of existing facilities that is the key problem tarnishing the public sanitation system and making it unfit for use.

Photography: Courtesy Saket Sethi Mumbai based architect Saket Sethi chisels out a metaphor for the Aditya Birla company, creating for them, their first world class R&D campus to spearhead a new generation of products and research...

If architecture is music in stone can its "limbs" dance? Architecture only remains still in pic­tures. In real life its natural state is one of tran­sition. Both man and light move within it. Inside a house among coarse Mediterranean glades and corrugated stone walls, a slanting light, pierced by innumerable narrow repeated blades, inscribes and describes the walls with its imper­manent, mutable hand.

Photography: Courtesy F.S.N.D Architects Reinstating the role of design as an influential tool - in the look, feel and mood of a space, F.S.N.D. Architects brandish it to carve a stylish home with a view...

Fort McMurray Airport (YMM), located 13km south-east of Fort McMurray, Alberta, is owned and operated by Fort McMurray Airport Authority

Three of the ten biggest power stations in China are hydro-based, including the gigantic Three Gorges Dam, while the other seven are coal-fired. Power-technology.com profiles the ten biggest Chinese power stations based on installed capacity. The Three Gorges power station located in Yichang in Hubei province is by far the world's biggest power generation facility.

Izmir Adnan Menderes International Airport is the fourth busiest airport in the country, serves Izmir, an important seaside metropolis of Turkey.

The global economic downturn has slowed growth at major airports in the US and Europe, paving the way for more Asian and Middle Eastern airports to break into the top ten for passenger traffic levels. Based on passenger traffic stats for the first five months of 2012, airport-technology.com presents the ten busiest airports in the world.

It's easy to forget that urban design is not a new concept. Ancient examples of carefully-planned and designed cities exist in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, and are particularly well-known within classical Chinese, Roman and Greek cultures. The pioneer of urban planning, Hippodamus of Miletus, planned ancient cities of Rhodes, Miletus and the harbour-town Piraeus at Athens as early as the fifth century BC.  In England, many ninth century towns were designed on a grid plan, and by the twelfth century, urbanisation was seen as a means of stimulating economic growth and generating revenue throughout Western Europe. One of the earliest international contributions made by Australia to urban planning theory and practice sprang from the international competition held between 1911 and 1912 to design Australia's new federal capital, Canberra.

a french blog (translate... ;) about sustainable quarters and what could be done .. your wishes, your hopes, but a coherent economy in the background.

the project demonstarte this agency efficiency .. in sustainability

this agency has its all creativity to sustainability and very advanced human projects ...

au départ c'est un usage parallèle au papier classique, mais au final il doit pouvoir être utilisé comme matériau dans la construction ...

just think about what architecture may do with a "rock paper ".. yep, this is "paper" done with rock and not wood ! ... application swill grow fast now ! ;)

and also look for their links on the right !! there are full of bloggers, and specialized sites !

to be seen coz of high researches...

this is the site of Mitchell Joachim, PHd at MiT ... netx has very good intuitions and plays far with formal designs...Terreform ONE [Open Network Ecology] is a nonprofit organization and philanthropic design collaborative that integrates ecological principles in the urban environment. The group views ecology in design as not only a philosophy that inspires visions of sustainability and social justice but also a focused scientific endeavor. The mission is to ascertain the consequences of fitting a project within our natural world setting. Solutions range from; green master planning, urban self-sufficiency infrastructures, community development activities, climatic tall buildings, performative material technologies, and smart mobility vehicles for cities. These design iterations seek an activated ecology both as a progressive symbol and an evolved artifact. Terreform is a winner of the Infiniti Design Excellence Award - History Channel City of the Future competition.

some some examples...

for around sustainable and developpment, some news about architecture from next new created environnements...

YEp ! about sustain and cities, also architecture ! This page, thanks to biological Architecture from Berkeley school of archi. said about 60 h of focal videos about sustain and biomimicry, parametric archi ..;etc get to share if you find some very good pearl ! ;)

about some extra research on urbanism... searching about potentials and any solution

videos form the institutfor advanced architecture of catalonia ... very upset works and studies !