| This Big City

Dec

How Much Energy Could Your Garden Generate?

Categories: Blog, Data and Infrastructure, Digital, USA and Canada

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by Joe Peach

America’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has launched an online tool that lets you calculate how much energy you can generate through solar and wind power in your backyard, ideal for the endless sprawl of suburban neighbourhoods in the USA. Read more

Dec

Machine Built Architecture

Categories: Buildings, Components, USA and Canada

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by Joe Peach

Pike Loop, located on the corner of Pike and Division streets in New York, is a 22 metre wall built by entirely by machine, a robot called R-O-B. Read more

Dec

Maximising Urban Space with Rooftop Gardens

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Blog, Buildings, Residential

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by Joe Peach

The green roof has many benefits, including providing natural habitats in urban areas and insulating rooftops. Read more

Dec

Design Blogging

Categories: Arts and Culture, Blog, People

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by Joe Peach

An article in this month's Icon praises Blogger for being part of the online movement that brought blogging into the design and architecture mainstream, and highlights noteworthy professional blogs, as well as high quality ‘amateur’ bloggers. Read more

Nov

Can Solar Panels Solve the Problem with Roofs?

Categories: Blog, Buildings, Components, USA and Canada

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by Joe Peach

As close to the sun as they are likely to get, and away from most light-blocking obstructions, there is no better location for solar panels than rooftops. Read more

Nov

Three Dimensional Cities of the Future

Categories: Asia and the Pacific, Blog, Planning

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by Joe Peach

Saturday the 28th will see the launch of ‘Green Projects II, three dimensional city: future China’ at Beijing Centre for the Arts, presenting innovative solutions to potential urbanization problems in China. Read more

Nov

A Very Brief Explanation of the Box in Architecture

Categories: Blog, Buildings, Non-residential, Residential

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by Joe Peach

Housing began as a form of shelter, something all animals seek instinctively. From this point onwards, the box was integral to architecture. Read more

Nov

Hidden Solar Panels

Categories: Blog, Buildings, Components, Europe

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by Joe Peach

The International Centre for Design in Saint-Etienne, France, uses a geodesic design made up of 14,000 equilateral triangles filled with glass, metal, and solar panels. Read more