Restores abandoned Pyrenees home by hand with regenerative system by Kirsten Dirksen on January 9, 2023 After purchasing a ruin in a hilltop hamlet in the Spanish Pyrenees, Emmanuel Pauwels created a home in close harmony …
Modern building, ancient A/C: wind-tunnel facade cools apartments by Nicolás Boullosa on July 7, 2022 For three millennia, builders in the Middle East (where temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius) have been cooling their homes …
Modern prefab keeps Mediterranean character & sense of place by Kirsten Dirksen on October 14, 2018 For forty years the JEC family has been growing their “mas” (Catalan country home) from a basic 45m2-square structure to …
Baubotanik shapes living tree branches into building facades by Kirsten Dirksen on June 5, 2017 Architects Ferdinand Ludwig and Daniel Schönle would like to revolutionize the way we build, or more appropriately “grow”, our buildings. …
Arcosanti: Paolo Soleri’s futuristic utopian city in the desert by Kirsten Dirksen on June 20, 2016 Visionary architect Paolo Soleri began building Arcosanti, his utopian city in the desert, in 1970 and continued to work on …
Versatile passive house to balance live/work, urban/country by Kirsten Dirksen on March 21, 2011 As an architect passionate about passive solar and urban live/work design, Alan Cohen got tired of waiting for a client …
Maintenance secrets of a 2.5-acre, native plants living roof by Kirsten Dirksen on January 27, 2011 It’s one of the most expansive and one of the most complex living roofs ever designed- the 197,000-square-foot rooftop is …
Is Renzo Piano’s Academy of Sciences the greenest museum? by Kirsten Dirksen on January 24, 2011 The purpose of the California Academy of Sciences is to study the earth and science. It’s also located in one …
