The Gulf and Atlantic Coasts dodged a bullet this year, with an El Niño event in the Pacific effectively canceling a potentially disastrous hurricane season.
In this city, still slowly recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the respite is allowing the government and home builders time to look for ways to minimize the effects [...]

What do all of these products – the Tartan® running track at Stanford University, the brightly colored gDiaper™, Formawall™ exterior building panels at Andrews Air Force Base, Wet Women® Surf Wax, and the new Answer® system workstation – have in common?
They’re all certified as Cradle to Cradleâ„¢ (C2C) products, safe for both human and [...]

Google Inc. has chosen William McDonough, an acclaimed architect whose projects feature grass roofs and recycled water, to make preliminary designs of its planned offices at the NASA Ames Research Center, according to two sources familiar with the deal.
The assignment signals Google’s intentions to go green at the facility, an ambitious complex that could encompass [...]

Opponents of the city’s $141 million plan for a new Newton North High School are increasingly coming up with alternate site plans and designs that they insist will be less costly and more efficient than the one created by the Gund Partnership , the nationally renowned architects hired by the city for the job.
While two [...]

Two Cambridge residents are among four Conestoga College architecture students to be honoured with scholarships.
The scholarships are from the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) foundation – the largest and most widely-recognized professional association for facility management. The foundation awarded 23 scholarships.
Winning students come from highly-regarded schools such as Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech and Cal-Berkeley. No [...]

Peter Blake, an architect, critic and former editor of Architectural Forum who was known for his lively critiques of Modernism and his friendships with artists, died yesterday at a hospice near his home in Branford, Conn. He was 86.
The cause was complications from a respiratory infection, said his son, Casey Nelson Blake.
One of Mr. Blake’s [...]

In the first decade of a century that the entire world agrees is Asia’s, this great continent — home to half the world’s peoples and resources — finds itself at a strategic crossroads. Will it be able to give rise to new architecture and institutions that foster stability, security, cooperation, and growth? Or will it [...]

David Salmela’s buildings, the ones located in woods, are designed to interact with the trees surrounding them.
Trees, by the way, that are not cut down unless absolutely necessary.
“The key is to fit the building into the site so that you aren’t altering the natural environment,” Salmela said in an interview prior to a gallery [...]

Architect Jim Patton will be keeping an eagle eye on various campus construction projects like the construction of the new student center, alumni building and music building at Texas A&M-Commerce as the university’s new project manager.
The Commerce resident, who commuted to Dallas for 18 years, was part of the architectural team that worked with A&M-Commerce [...]

Shares of ServiceMaster Co. posted their biggest percentage gain in more than 21 years Tuesday after the nation’s largest provider of lawn-care and landscaping services said it might be for sale.
ServiceMaster stock climbed $1.25, or 10.5 percent, to $13.15, on the New York Stock Exchange, the stock’s largest advance since July 1985.
The Downers Grove-based [...]

It’s called “Inside Outside Upside Downside,” and Lisa Rapoport of PLANT Architect Inc. says her company’s gingerbread creation was “kind of invented on the spot.”
The seven creators first lay three sheets of gingerbread horizontally on top of each other and began cutting out pieces, so that “architecture would be constructed quite literally from the landscape.”
That’s [...]

AS THE term implies, “passive” means inert, without inherent power or action, motion or resistance. In green architecture “passive design” refers to the use of the sun’s energy to heat or cool indoor spaces. Passive design accounts for buildings that save energy, are comfortable to use and are environment-friendly. It means design that does not [...]