One of the great assets of Canada’s Cowichan Valley is the Centennial Park Cob Kitchen. It’s a beautiful Cob pizza oven and cooktop available to the community. The Cob Kitchen can be used by individuals for family use, community organizations who wish to host an event or program, or by local businesses. Having heard that the … Read more
Parameswaran Krishna searched online for bamboo products and realized that there was a lot of demand, but not much supply for bamboo products where he lived in India. So he decided to explore the business possibilities of bamboo. He rented a small space for the office, hired a trained bamboo craftsman, set up a small … Read more
When Laura Hood bought 155 acres and a home near Wenatchee, WA, there was a caved-in root cellar near the house. Ten years later, the root cellar has been restored. The root cellar is thought to be the first white settler house built in the area by James Christiansen in 1886. It was described in … Read more
On a small island off New Zealand’s mainland is a building known as Te Kura Whare, which is designated as a “living building.” New Zealand law now recognizes the local terrain as a living entity, with legal rights of personhood. The Living Buildings framework, as set out by the International Living Future Institute, awards the … Read more
Windcatchers are a great example of the marriage between architectural design and the environment to help keep your house cool. For more than a thousand years, windcatchers have existed in and around the Persian Gulf, providing natural ventilation and passive cooling. Keeping cool through the summer involves controlling how all the elements in the house … Read more
A Copenhagen-based design studio has presented plans for a residential development that will be part of the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennial, whose theme is ‘How will we live together?’ The plan is for a ‘nature village’ which will eventually see a field in Denmark transformed into a completely new forest-neighborhood district comprising more than 200 … Read more