Six weeks after the passage of a “beautiful custom home with extensive gardens, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, in an apartment just minutes from the city’s central business district, could not be Roz Mawson happier. (Nor could her two children flown the nest until they dig their eyes already on the cool new mother.) “It was time to get our comfort zone for us again and try to...
Gerard Kitchener is like talking about the weather, particularly in Waratah Bay is located in south-eastern Victoria, Australia. But this is no ordinary weather it provides the omitted information can dish up this steep hill. Think horizontal rain, frequent episodes of lightning, gale force sufficient to dislodge the car doors and blow the dogs again, and hailstones as big as walnuts. Gerard and his...
I do not look the twilight bear, loping toward Maem Slater-Enns and his daughter, then six months, as she intends to sit in the waters of the Enns family perhaps living in tents in their isolated island in the summer, came home on Shoal Lake, which stretches from the borders of Manitoba and Ontario. Instead, they are easily protected by the flag of the gracious hand of her husband, Herbert Enns, professor...
When Greg Reitz ten years, he was so concerned by the join condition of the planet without asking his parents, he spent his allowance of Greenpeace. Twenty years later, after a disappointing exit in management consulting, he turned his passion for the environment as a profession. Reitz has been subject to green building consultant for the city of Santa Monica, consulting colleagues and local landowners,...
It is impossible to ignore the nature of Big Sur. “Many flowers purple gems on the path of a dynamic flow, as illustrated by Blake sought a channel budding titanic cliffs that Wordsworth … Eden said in his own Sublime, great yellow sun floats covered with fog in the horizon ocean planet, “wrote the poet Allen Ginsberg on the location on the central coast of California. But what makes...
One day last April, there are plenty of excitement on Highland Avenue, a quiet street of bungalows and hilly craftsmen and 1960 buildings in the neighborhood of Ocean Park in Santa Monica, California (live on which this writer). The road was closed, and residents and television crews have proved shows that six huge semi-trailer load of steel-framed modules, delivered 11 in total, which were then extended...
Architect Robert Swatt, designer of the Green City Lofts apartment complex on the border of Oakland and Emeryville, California, does not claim to many years of environmental expertise. Standing before a model in its East Bay office, he said, “We’re not one of these companies, green building to launch the brand of our work. There are companies that, like, but we are not the one of them....
In late 2000, Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir, native Icelandic venture partners and the Santa Monica-based design Minarc bought what is essentially a dismantling in the West Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. “We have appreciated for its simple lines and flat roof and thought we could do something,” says Thorsteinsson. But shortly after buying Ingjaldsdóttir first...
In the grip of the worst drought in a century, Australians showers together. Dam levels are reported daily in newspapers, as well as the modern environmental barometers of environmental pollution and UV light. All kinds of water restrictions are in force. Gardeners are prohibited from using pipes in the heat of the day. In some cities, the family dog did not wash, even with a bucket. Chris Medland...
When most people think of places for a holiday home, they have visions of beaches, golf courses, resorts and chalets. But few have the courage, the kind of place, architects Andre Lessard and Barbara Dewhirst should choose a perfect. “We saw the site on a rainy autumn morning,” Dewhirst said his Otter Lake, Ontario, the weekend on the site. “The place was invaded by the hemlock trees,...
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