Green buildings and urban areas need equally sustainable forms of transportation. And like cars, bicycles need parking, too. Bike Arc’s modular racks and shelters protect bicycles—and sometimes people—from the elements using galvanized steel and polycarbonate sheeting. The company makes a variety of products, including simple one-piece bike racks and structures that can provide enclosed shelter for more than 60 bicycles. Umbrella Arc secures eight bicycles in an area less than 25 square...
This Carbon Neutral House is located just four blocks from the Nation’s Capitol in the heart of Capitol Hill. The modest existing wood stick home dates back to the early 19th century. Although it has been vacant for several years in disrepair, the property is a wonderful opportunity to showcase “DC’s first Carbon Neutral Home.” With strict historical standards, well informed neighbors, tight building conditions, tough existing structural conditions and all the other challenges adaptive reuse...
Curtain wall from Alcoa’s Kawneer architectural aluminum products business envelopes much of the vibrant colorful palette of the newly constructed Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The facility incorporates a range of Kawneer products that maximize daylighting and thermal performance, including curtain wall, sunshades and thermally broken windows and doors. To learn more about Kawneer’s sustainable products visit www.kawneergreen.com. For information on Kawneer’s institutional...
WAC Lighting introduces the “Puget Sound” Collection of energy efficient, line voltage pendants featuring glass designs from artisans in the American Pacific Northwest. Combining stunning glass and hardware designs with sustainable compact fluorescent technology, WAC Lighting, a leading manufacturer and designer of track, recessed, undercabinet, monorail and decorative lighting, develops almost all products in the family owned, ISO 9001-certified manufacturing campus with inhouse UL certified...
VAST Enterprises, LLC, announced that using its composite pavers in construction applications can contribute to six or more LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) credits. VAST produces green building products with its patented technology that transforms post-consumer recycled rubber and plastics into an environmentally friendly material: composite masonry. All VAST products are made from up to 95 percent recycled car tires and plastic containers. VAST composite masonry products include...
Trespa’s new Wood Decors extend the collection to 17 Wood Decors and 6 Naturals. These are available for the Trespa Meteon range – the architectural panel specified worldwide for exterior cladding and imaginative building facades. The high performance, aesthetically pleasing panel is available in a very extensive range of colours, metallics, natural decors and unique finishes. As trees define the natural landscape, so Wood Decors colour and change the man-made landscape. These Wood Decors...
The Finnish pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai will receive a modern shingle cladding made from wood plastic composite UPM ProFi. Finland will take part in the Expo with the Giant’s Kettle pavilion, designed y the Helsinki-based architecture agency JKMM Architects. The innovative Giant’s Kettle pavilion, which will be built on a 3, 000 square metre lot, stresses the importance of minimal environmental load in its material selection. This is in tune with Finland’s vision...
Towering over the Philadelphia skyline at an amazing 58 stories (975 feet), the city’s new Comcast Center is a high-performance sustainable building, with an abundance of features that will conserve energy and reduce impact on the environment. Designed to receive LEED® certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, Comcast Center uses 40 percent less water than the average office building, and the building’s water fixtures will save more than 3 million gallons of drinking water each year....
Hallmark Development’s first office building at Offices at Park Place in Clearwater, Fla., has been awarded LEED-Gold Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED is the USGBC’s rating system for designing and constructing the world’s greenest, most energy efficient, and high performing buildings. The Offices at Park Place structure is the first new office building in Tampa Bay to achieve this prestigious recognition. “It is an honor to be officially recognized...
Office Depot, a leading global provider of office products and services, today announced that its “Green” retail store prototype has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The USGBC’s LEED system is widely recognized as the benchmark for green building design, construction, operations and maintenance. Office Depot received the Gold Rating for the Company’s Store Prototype as well as for its first “Green”...
The Contour Lounge Chair by Murillo
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Contemporary Office Designs from Triple Five Design
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The Gallery House designed by architect Richard Librach
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