Over the last year, Taliesin Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture graduate and undergraduate students have been blogging on PrairieMod about their project to build a small modern home on the grounds of Taliesin West. The students, with help of Jennifer Siegal of OMD and others, designed a simple but elegant home with sustainability [...]

It looks like the 100k House idea has migrated overseas because a similar prototype just popped up in Italy last year.  Mario Cucinella Architects has conceived Casa 100k, which is a prototype home for ?100,000 that prioritizes three main elements: style, sustainability, and affordability.  It’s billed as a low-cost, dream home with zero bills and [...]

A lot of people in Pennsylvania have been talking about green building, but according to my quick research, no one in the state has received the USGBC’s highest certification under the LEED for Homes program yet. But that could change if the stars align for Thin Flats — the developer is seeking LEED-H Platinum [...]

The site of this building is 90M long in length from west to east and undulating with the largest height differences of 13M. Because of these characteristics of the lot, a large area must be used for a path coming through the lot if it is to be developed as a residential area in the [...]

According to Morris Architects, the Gulf of Mexico has about 4,000 oil rigs of various sizes that will be decomissioned at some point in the next century. One primary method of rig removal, when the time comes, is explosion an expensive method that poses hazardous consequences to aquatic life. So you can see, there’s an opportunity to use existing oil rig structures in a new way.