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Architects and Airstreams

April 03, 2012
The high-styled ‘67 Caravel Airstream is an off-the-grid mobile office for this architect.
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How Green Was My (Napa) Valley?

The Yountville Town Center opened in November 2009, weaving new and existing buildings and outdoor rooms into a place designed to enrich community life.
May 02, 2011
For decades, the residents of Yountville, California, a rural town in Napa County, relied on a small 1920s-era community hall and a hodgepodge of rented spaces to host community events.
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2011 Excellence in Design Awards

April 28, 2011
Each year, ED+C holds its Excellence in Design Awards to honor projects that demonstrate a clear commitment to green building and sustainable design. Whose projects? Yours. How do they get to us? You can submit them during our call for entries.
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Are Green Rating Systems Starting To Recognize Wood's Carbon Benefits?

December 01, 2010
Wood’s primary advantages from an environmental standpoint are either undervalued or ignored in most green building rating systems, especially in North America, according to a recent study by Light House Sustainable Building Centre in Vancouver, Canada.
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Supplemental Narrative for NZEB: Cost Analysis and Cost Modeling

November 05, 2010
Sustainable Architect, Bruce Haxton and ED+C senior editor Michelle Hucal, organized the NZEB Expert Roundtable III: Cost Analysis and Cost Modeling teleconference to investigate some of the NZEB cost issues uncovered in the first and second NZEB Roundtable conference of May and July 2010.
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Neon Green

September 22, 2010
MGM’s CityCenter, an $8.7 billion mixed-use development in the heart of the Strip, has managed to not only stand out amid a crowded field of attention-grabbing competitors but also do so while achieving LEED Gold. As a result, this new Vegas landmark is one of the world’s largest sustainable developments. 
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Beyond the Ivy Tower

August 23, 2010
Remodeling several outdated residence halls on a California college campus inspires a textbook case of how to live, study and go green.
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Reach for the Sky

July 12, 2010
Innovative engineering and design elements put the striking finishing touches on the Twelve|West  Building in Portland, Ore.
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Redeeming History

June 01, 2010
When the Church of the Redeemer was demolished in the 1960s, its destruction sparked a historic preservation movement in the nation’s capital. Although the landmark is long gone, designers renovating to the site’s newest building not only honored its history but also imparted a modern, energy-efficient design.
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