Earthquake-prone Hotel Built in 360 Hours

A Chinese company Broad Group has built an earthquake-prone 30-storey hotel in just 360 hours. That’s 15 days! When it comes to sustainable construction, one way of being sustainable is to build quickly. There’s no need to spend years on the building site when through proper planning and well-organised...

Is the Solar Industry in the UK Under a Threat?

The Government’s recent announcement that they would cut the feed-in tariffs in December 2011, has generated a massive uproar within the green industry. A new lobby named “Cut Don’t Kill” is wielding their arms and planning a mass protest near Parliament on Tuesday 22 November starting at...

Pajamas and Aluminium Shell

Here’s a beautiful project from Slovenia in Eastern Europe. Created by a modern and hip architecture studio Ofis Arhitekti. Although it’s a multistorey residential building, there are a few interesting ideas that we can adapt for just about any house. The town of Nova Gorica is known to have...

Green Urban Experiment at Victoria London

How is one of the most popular parts of the capital embracing the modern green urban scene? Capita Symonds, a large property consultancy company, has been appointed by the London Victoria Business Improvement District (BID) to carry out a string of green infrastructure projects across Victoria. Along with...

Sleeping in the Sewer

I’m sure you’ve experienced this in the past that you arrive at a hotel and it looks like sewer. Don’t let me digress, though, it’s not dodgy hotels that I want to talk about. What I want to talk about is green hotels that are building their rooms from salvaged architectural materials – in this...

Eco Friendly Hotel Bariloche, Argentina

The legendary Argentinean architect Mario Roberto Alvarez is still going strong. It’s his 98th birthday soon, but the man keeps coming up with groundbreaking ideas. One of his latest projects is an eco-friendly hotel Bariloche in the foothills of the Andes near the city of San Carlos de...