sustainable buildings Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 08 May 2013 14:56:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Iran’s Apartment No. 1 Built Entirely from Recycled Stone https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iran-apartment-recycled-stone-20130508/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iran-apartment-recycled-stone-20130508/#respond Wed, 08 May 2013 14:56:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37030 Iranian city Mahallat is home to a thriving stone cutting industry. Even though the industry contributes nearly half of the city’s economy, it also generates a lot of waste stone from the cutting process. Tehran’s Architecture by Collective Terrain thus set out to put the so-called waste stone to use by constructing an apartment building […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/iran-apartment-recycled-stone-20130508/feed/ 0 37030 MVRDV Design Glass Building with Traditional Farmhouse Look https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mvrdv-glass-building-20130121/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mvrdv-glass-building-20130121/#respond Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:57:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31773 Architects MVRDV have constructed a building made of glass but resembling a traditional Dutch farmhouse – Glass Farm. The building houses mixed-use retail establishments and offices right in the middle of Schijndel, a town in The Netherlands. Glass Farm was built to help in the redevelopment of the market square of Schijndel which sustained heavy […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mvrdv-glass-building-20130121/feed/ 0 31773 A Solar-Powered Temporary Housing Unit Now Home to Damaged Property Victims https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-temporary-housing-unit-20130111/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-temporary-housing-unit-20130111/#respond Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:07:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31186 A number of designers are competing to design the best practical emergency housing unit. Michel Antoun Zateef’s design of The Temporary Housing Unit is among the proposals to provide shelter for victims of property-damaging disasters. No matter the kind of natural disaster, from hurricanes to floods or even earthquakes, the project’s goal is to provide […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-temporary-housing-unit-20130111/feed/ 0 31186 Detroit Welcomes 93 Shipping Containers Made into Luxurious Apartment https://www.greenoptimistic.com/detroit-sustainable-apartments-20121229/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/detroit-sustainable-apartments-20121229/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:54:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=30542 Detroit will be welcoming the appropriately-named Power of Green Housing Development which is a project aiming to convert 93 shipping containers to a luxurious apartment complex. The multi-family home that Steven C. Flum designed will have four floors made up of about 20 residences and will be the first such home to be constructed from […]

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