Shopping Malls Changing...
C?te St. Luc /Public Domain Shopping malls are in trouble all over North America, as retailers fail, shrink or flee to the cheaper freestanding box stores. Many are changing from shopping to entertainment and services. One expert is quoted in the Montreal Gazette: “People are spending more on experience and service and less on stuff. The world is awash in ?stuff’.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to read the rest: Shopping Malls Changing or...What Gets Measured Gets...
Libelium /Promo image Our roads are designed for cars, and there are often sensors that control lights or count vehicles in the road that don’t pick up bikes; I often stop at an intersection waiting for a light to change, (yes, some cyclists do stop at red lights) and find that it never does unless I go hit the pedestrian button; the sensors don’t know I am there. As for pedestrians, it is almost impossible to track how many of them there are and where they are moving....Why Energy Scarcity Mak...
Peak Moment TV /Video screen capture There is plenty of evidence that high energy prices were the real cause of our ongoing economic crisis . While subprime mortgages and other financial questionable shenanigans have become the primary scapegoat, it’s easy to forget that the recession was preceded by a spike in oil prices that left many people unable to pay their bills. … Read the full story on TreeHugger Originally posted here: Why Energy Scarcity Makes Economic...Abandoned Grain Silo in...
© C + T Architectures Overlooking the port of Marseille, one of largest cities in France, used to sit an abandoned grain silo. Situated in a neighborhood slated for renovation, the emblematic and highly visible Arenc Silo, built in 1926-7, faced demolition. But rather than destroy the building and start from scratch with new materials, the City decided to transform it. For the last year, the old silo has been in service as a fully renovated opera house and theater…. Read...Is This the Tiniest Tin...
Fair Companies /Video screen capture From a young man building a tiny house so he can live mortgage-free to an off-grid home built for $2,500 , we’ve featured some pretty impressive tiny house stories on TreeHugger before. … Read the full story on TreeHugger View original here: Is This the Tiniest Tiny House in the World? Tiny Houses as Punk Rock...Why Brutalist Architect...
Amanda Vincent-Rous / CC BY 2.0 Andrew Sullivan asks Can Brutalist Architecture Help Explain The London Riots? and illustrates his post with an image of Alison and Peter Smithson’s classic Robin Hood Gardens. Sullivan quotes Tom Clougherty of British libertarian website Continued here: Why Brutalist Architecture Is Not Necessarily Socialist, and Vice...UFO Lands and Welcomes ...
treehotel /Promo image TreeHugger loves and hates the TreeHotel in Sweden; I love it for the design, and the fact that my first post on it was the most popular I ever wrote; Our tech people hate it because it was so popular that it broke the site for a whole day. It is the gift that keeps on giving, as they keep adding wonderful new rooms, such as the UFO design that I wrote about last year . At the time Bertil Harstr?m of… Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to see the...
Smart Kitchen Space-Sav...
Dornob /via For those of us who find conventional dish-drying racks take up too much space and keep dish clutter in full view on the counter, this old Finnish invention may just do the trick. It’s a dish rack that’s integrated into a bottomless cabinet above the sink, so that the step of drying wet dishes is skipped completely, and are placed there to dry, out of view. … Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: Smart Kitchen Space-Saver: Dish...
Glass Highrise Resident...
One Lujiazui /Promo image Glass makes a glitzy building and is so easy for the architect and the developer, just pick a system out of a catalogue and get a subcontractor to do it and you are done. It is fast and modern looking and provides great views. Too bad that it is horrible from an energy point of view, and has this tendency to spontaneously explode if it is not tempered properly and checked carefully, as was happening in Toronto recently. (see See more here: Glass Highrise...