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A Social Network for Buildings... Honestly?

Karla Zens | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Green Building, Green, LEED Certification, Energy Efficiency, Real Estate, Building, Green Energy, Green News

Remember having to rely on restaurant recommendations of trusted friends and a handful of professional reviewers in the pre-Yelp and Chowhound world? That's where the building industry is today.

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Bizarre Roman Ruin Baffles Scientists

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Video, Ancient Rome, Wings, Romans, England, Rome, Architecture, Structure, Mysterious, Building, Bowden, Science News

By: Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor Published: 01/23/2012 09:17 AM EST on LiveScience A recently discovered mysterious "win...

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Kingdom Tower: In Depth With The Architect

Jacob Slevin | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Skyscraper, Tower, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Jeddah-Saudi Arabia, Architecture, Design, Saudi Arabia, Building, Geotechnical Engineering, Arts News

View from the water. Photo courtesy of © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Just recently announced, the Kingdom Tower will be the world's ta...

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WATCH: New York Through The David Rockwell Lens

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Manhattan, New York, Rockwell Group, Kodak Theatre, Entertainment, Catch Me if You Can, David Rockwell, Set Design, Design, Broadway, Community, Steak, Imagination Playground, Film, Elinor Bunin Munroe, Fimmaker, Striphouse, City Guide, Architect, Nyc, Film Center, ink48, Rockwell, Theatre, South Street Seaport, crane.tv, Bar Americain, Building, Fao Schwartz, Hollywood, Arts News

David Rockwell is no stranger to the theatre and entertainment world. First inspired from a young age by his mother's community theatre in New Jersey,...

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Sensory Architecture In London's Hyde Park

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Stage, Serpentine Gallery, Peter Zumthor, Kensington, Garden, Architecture, Design, City, Piet Oudolf, London, Swiss, Architect, Pavilion, Space, Spiritual, Building, Sensory, UK Arts, Serpentine Pavilion, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor's latest creation wills people to stop for a minute and think. This year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is constructed un...

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The Computer As Art Medium

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Installation, Sculpture, Design, Kinetic, Innovation, Media, Medium, University, Art, Designer, Virtual, Digital, Artist, crane.tv, Building, Communication, Berlin, Art+Com, Joachim Sauter, Arts News

"Every medium has a way to communicate and our mission statement was at all times to figure out how we can com...

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Philly Teens On Fast Track To Building Careers

11/02/2010 | Inquirer Staff Writer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Student Construction Classes, School Building Program, Teens Construction, Student Building Classes, Building Programs, Mentoring, Teens, Building, Students, Education News

The assignment to design his own museum was all it took for student Christopher Thach to start imagining. The 17-year-old high school senior at Car...

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Southern Sudan: Building a New Nation

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebuilding, Southern Sudan, Governance, Building, Election, New Sudan, Splm, Impact News

The outcome of Southern Sudan's upcoming election is pointing towards a new nation state and the international community will rally around its birth. The real issue is whether the international community will help or hinder.

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PHOTOS: Hempcrete, Earthships, And More! The Coolest Home Design Trends

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Solar, Hemp, Straw Bale, Green, Eco-Friendly, Construct, Home, Salvage, Sustainable, House, Recycle, Build, Waste, Reuse, Rain Catchment, Materials, Construction, Heating, Insulation, Cob, Building, Passive, Net-Zero, Slidepollajax, Smarter Ideas, Green News

The modern home builder has a bevy of options for building a sustainable, low-energy, non-toxic building. From hemp, to corn cobs, to old tires, to sm...

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Sports Micro-Venture Fund Opens: With $500K on the Line, Are You Game?

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sports, Social Change, Nike, Renovation, Architecture for Humanity, Sports-for-Social-Change, Architecture, Innovation, Building, Impact News

Last week, we launched a $1/2M fund for building or upgrading facilities for organizations that utilize sports as a mechanism for social change.

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ATFP Launches New Online Palestinian State and Institution Building Resources

Ziad J. Asali, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Atfp, Building, Palestinian, And, Institution, State, World News

ATFP hopes these resources will help people around the world better understand the scope, progress and importance of state and institution building by the Palestinian people.

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Danger and Intrigue in Cortlandt Alley

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Architecture, Chinatown, Building, Table Tennis, New York City, Hollywood, Skyscraper, New York News

I do appreciate alleys for their beauty as a rare piece of forgotten New York. There's really nothing you can do to save or preserve them and their value is in their scarcity.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green, Green Living, Green Energy, Green Energy Economy, Satellite, Solar Power, Solar Power Satellite, Japan, Gigawatt, Nuclear Power, Economy, Space Solar Power System, Wireless Power, Power, Wireless Power Transmission, Solar Energy, Trade, Space, Wireless, Wpt, Ssps, Meti, Mitsubishi, Innovation, Magnetic Field, Electric Cars, Electric Field, Long Range Cars, Microwave Power Transmission (MPT), Microwave, Electric Car, Experimental Aircraft, Long Endurance Aircraft, Ionosphere, Nasa, Minix, NASA Moon, Space Exploration, Solar-Power-Satellite, Power Relay, Wireless-Energy-Resonant-Link, Ecology, Globalization, Fossil Fuels, Oil Industry, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil, Laser, Media, Health, Energy Grid, Doe, Wireless Power Generation, Canada, US, European Union, Europe, Asia, Green Building, Airports, Building, Green Buildings, Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Aerospace, Department of Energy, Deep Space Antenna, Moon, New Product Development, Green News

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Building Change Across the Globe

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, School Building, Sports for Social Change, Humanitarian Design, Building, Architecture for Humanity, Architecture, Haiti Earthquake, Impact News

Architecture for Humanity has spent the last decade building a more sustainable future using the power of design.

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Dying To Work: Human Trafficking and the Construction Industry

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Skyscraper, Uae, Dubai, Zero Carbon, Ethics, Design, Building, Architecture, Human Trafficking, Business News

What good is building a zero energy, carbon neutral complex if unethical labor practices are jeopardizing the lives of those who build this architectural wonder?

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Apartment Building Associations Promoting Energy Inefficiency?

A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Green Building, Energy, Cap and Trade, Building Codes, Apartment Buildigns, Energy Efficiency, Building, Waxman-Markey, Green News

Those struggling to delay action to turn the tides on Global Warming's rising seas come from many angles and bring to the table many truthiness-laden arguments.

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Never Mind Google Streetview... We Need Google "Heat" View

Gavin D. J. Harper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Google Advertising, Google Search, Google Streetview, Green Technology, Green Building, Green, Sustainability, Green Living, Google Maps, Building, Green Energy, Green Buildings, Green News

Google, you've developed a fantastic and sophisticated engine for processing imagery; can we please borrow it to save the world?

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Name the Buildings Right

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bob Herbert, Willis Tower, Building, Jesse Jackson Jr., Mayor Daley, Home News

The Willis Tower? I don't think so, pal. Some London-based company wants to rename our tower and Mayor Daley is going to let them? What has happened to our city?

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Tower Bloxx: Build Your Town!

www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Games, Tower Bloxx, Tower, Bloxx, Puzzle, Build, Tower Blocks, Action, Building, Video, Comedy News

Tower Bloxx is among the most decorated games you can get for your mobile phone, winning two Game of the Year Awards and multiple Editor's Choice awards! Now available in flash! Tower Bloxx scored an impressive 9 out of 10, one of the highest review scores for any mobile game! IGN, a leading reviewer, says "Awesome! DChoc's new puzzler surprises and delights - this one's a real winner" and "Games of this caliber are must-haves.

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Massively Efficient Path to Save the Economy

A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Ed Mazria, Energy Efficiency, Architecture 2030, Economy, Green, Architecture, Jobs, Construction, Building, Stimulus, Business News

Here is a path for desperately required short-term stimulus that also will help in meeting our desperate need to change our course: Stimulate the economy. Save money. Help stop Global Warming. Works for me.

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Build, Baby, Build: An Opportunity For Unity

Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Building, New Deal, Politics News

Do conservatives want their spawn to be carping 75 years from now that public investment didn't create a clean energy economy, didn't establish high-speed rail, and didn't lift our economy out of the ditch?

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Our Crisis Is Not Economic -- Part Two

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

It is no longer heresy to suggest that by continuing our automobile economy we are throwing money, architecture, design and ecology down a black hole.

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Energy COOL: White Roofing as Silver Bullet to slay Global Warming?

A. Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Reflective Roofing, Energy Efficiency, Building, Energy Policy, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News

White roofing of just 100 cities could halt Global Warming temperature increases for a decade or more.

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