URBAN - More winners of the AIA Housing Awards for Architecture

We showed five familiar ones earlier; here are the rest ...

http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/green-architecture/more-winners-a

URBAN - Tiny house + parking garage = the future of urban housing?

Could you live in a tiny house community in a parking structure? You might want to, once you learn about the SCADpad project ...

http://www.treehugger.com/tiny-houses/tiny-house-parking-garage-future

URBAN - Could We Cloak a City from an Earthquake?

Scientist experiment with a way to deflect seismic waves around a city. Continue reading ...

http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/could-we-cloak-

URBAN - Solar Powered Home Systems in India – Video

SELCO-India is a private business which has designed and sold over 48,000 solar home systems, powering electric lighting and small appliances for 220,000 people in Karnataka and other states in South India. Around 46% of households in India do not have mains electricity, and for many others the supply is unreliable. The use of photovoltaic.. ...

http://solarthermalmagazine.com/2014/04/07/solar-powered-home-systems-

URBAN - Imagining the Future of Connected, Transparent Buildings

We've known how to construct highly efficient buildings for a long time. But new communications technologies, better materials and stronger market pull are making sustainable design far more common. Is it enough to permanently and radically change our building stock? This week, the Gang is live from the Building Energy Summit in Washington, D.C. In this episode, we talk with some leading thinkers and practitioners in sustainable des ...

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/imagining-the-future-of-bu

URBAN - Billboard ads "replaced" with old master paintings in Paris and Milan

What if advertisements on billboards were replaced with old masters--it almost happened in Paris ...

http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/urban-design/billboard-ads-replac

URBAN - Car-free living in the cold... and the heat

My article on living car-free for 10 years generated quite a bit of questions and commentary. Here's another follow-up with some of my answers and extra commentary ...

http://www.treehugger.com/public-transportation/car-free-living-cold-a

URBAN - London’s Famous Gherkin Building Goes Green – Literally

Under pressure from other more sustainable buildings popping up around the world, London’s Gherkin Tower, designed by Norman Foster, has recently begun testing an innovative vegetated facade panel which promises to change the face of building design forever. This new “Green wall” product, known as the Core Hydraulic Integrated Arboury panel, promises to bring the benefits of green roofs to any exterior surface of any skyscraper.Read the rest of L ...

http://inhabitat.com/gherkin-gets-a-green-roof

URBAN - TALL PLASTIC: The future of building in America

New technology is announced that can build towers up to 30 stories high out of good American recyclable clean plastic ...

http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tall-plastic-future-build

URBAN - Hit A Pothole? It's Gonna Cost You - One Way Or Another

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, a pothole is "a bowl-shaped depression in the pavement surface." Those aren't exactly the words that drivers where I live are using to describe them. Those words, I can't post. After one of the snowiest, coldest winters on record in parts of [... ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/03/29/hit-a-pothole-

URBAN - San Francisco’s Castro District Getting Rainbow Crosswalks

San Francisco’s Castro district will soon be home to an intersection with rainbow-colored crosswalks. The design for the historically gay neighborhood’s crosswalks was chosen by vote from amongst a number of other options — with the plan being to complete it in time for the Gay Pride march in June.The move is part of a larger renewal initiative, one which includes: increasing the width of sidewalks, installing bike racks, improving outdoor ...

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/29/san-franciscos-castro-district-get

URBAN - Cute cabin is made out of old grain silo

Others break down silos; these guys move into one ...

http://www.treehugger.com/tiny-houses/cute-cabin-made-out-old-grain-si

URBAN - Japanese architect Shigeru Ban awarded 2014 Pritzker prize

(Reuters) - Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, noted for his airy modernist designs and humanitarian work, has won the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the top award in the field, organizers said on... ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/24/us-usa-architecture-pritzker

URBAN - The Work of Shigeru Ban

Images of the architect’s designs.    ...

http://www-nc.nytimes.com/slideshow/2014/03/24/arts/design/NYTNOW-PRIT

URBAN - Winner of Evolo skyscraper design competition nails it without nails

Yong Ju Lee of the United States takes first prize with this amazing wood towe ...

http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/winner-evolo-skyscraper-d

URBAN - On Designboom: Edouard François designs "The Gardens of Anfa"

The French architect wraps his buildings in green; a look at his latest project ...

http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/designboom-edouard-franco

URBAN - Own the LifeEdited Apartment

Treehugger founder Graham Hill is selling his tiny apartment t ...

http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/own-lifeedited-apartment.

URBAN - Photographs of another massive urban park that is under stress

London's Hampstead Heath is an urban parkland that's just too popular for its own good ...

http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/culture/hampstead-heath-urban-par

URBAN - Stuff therapy: Detox from consumerism by fixing the things you already own

Meet the two New York City residents who are trying to redefine the relationship you have with your stuff. They're opening "pop-up" repair shops where empty storefronts used to be ...

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/stuff-therapy-detox-consumerism-fixi

URBAN - Visions from the past of suburban lives in the future sure looked lonely

Look back at Motorola ads from the sixties and you begin to realize how we got into this mess ...

http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/infrastructure/why-were-single-fa