Spanish architects Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano of Selgascano have designed an office for their own practice, located in the woods near Madrid in Spain. (Pics)
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Green South Korean Concept City
Gwanggyo
This new concept city – to be called Gwanggyo, about 20 miles south of Seoul, South Korea – will feature slender, tapered buildings containing housing, offices, and retail space for its 77,000 potential residents.
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Passive Houses Have No Furnaces But Plenty Of Heat
From the outside, there is nothing unusual about the stylish new gray and orange row houses in the Kranichstein District, with wreaths on the doors and Christmas lights twinkling through a freezing drizzle. But these houses are part of a revolution in building design: There are no drafts, no cold tile floors, no snuggling under blankets until the furnace kicks in. There is, in fact, no furnace.
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Tokyo’s Tower Of Wind
Ventilation system for undersea tunnel
In this latest installment of bringing you all the secret lairs of global super-villains, we present you with the Kawasaki Man-Made Island of Japan (aka the Kaze-no-to or “Tower of Wind”).
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