Artizen Renovations

The California Building Standards Commission announced on Friday the unanimous adoption of a statewide green building code, the first in the nation. more

inhabitat.com Imagine being able to collect the energy of every person walking up and down the stairs from the Spinnaker Tower viewing platform in Portsmouth, UK. That is the proposal being put forward by David Webb, from the British consultancy of Scott Wilson. more

Auckland . . . the final frontier. Grant Major, the owner of Warrington's resident "flying saucer", is on a two-year mission to seek out a new life and take the house where no other like it has gone before. more

Architects have long intuited that the places we inhabit can affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Now behavioral scientists are giving their hunches an empirical basis. more

Often when we show designer stuff, we get the question "why is it so expensive?" We have tried to address the problem of local limited run manufacture and other factors, but the answer is never satisfactory. Over at Ponoko, we were shocked to find a designer, Roy Sablosky, who actually displays his handiwork, but writes: I have not posted this bowl for sale because it's too expensive. It costs about $100 to make just one, mostly because of more

We previously showed the Fujian Tulou, nicknamed "hula-hoop buildings" that "followed the Chinese dwelling tradition of "closed outside, open inside" concept: an enclosure wall with living quarters around the peripheral and a common courtyard at the center." Now Urbanus Architects bring them back in modern form. more