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Studio Schicketanz, led by Mary Ann Schicketanz, has designed a beautiful, net-zero home in Big Sur with views of the Pacific Ocean. The low-profile home, created for a Silicon Valley-based family, blends into a grassy hillside....

This beautiful home located at the base of a canyon in Big Sur is made from an array of materials, including copper and concrete. Fougeron Architecture designed the Jackson House as a modern holiday house on stilts that appears...

Sited on a cliff 250 feet above the Pacific Ocean near Big Sur, CA is Fall House, a sustainably-built vacation home that celebrates the foggy coastal scene...

Sometimes we get so caught up in exciting new sustainable homes designed in Japan and Scandanavia, that we forget to honor the original masters of organic architecture...

Sometimes we get so caught up in exciting new sustainable homes designed in Japan and Scandanavia, for example, that we forget to honor the original masters of organic architecture...

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Read the rest of Green-Roofed Dani Ridge House is Tucked into the Hillside in Big Sur Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", big sur, California, carver schicketanz, earth berm,...

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Fading right into the Big Sur landscape, this three-bedroom house is nearly invisible when viewed from certain angles. And that’s just how Mickey Muennig, the mastermind behind the project, wanted it. The 74-year old...