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Big Bend National Park isn’t just a place of stunning landscape beauty—the Texan park is also paleontological paradise. To tell the story of the area’s rich fossil history, Texan architecture studio Lake | Flato designed...

Ayal Bryant from Barro Vivo CR told Inhabitat because they live in a relatively hot and dry climate, where they receive about 3 months of rain and the rest of the year is pretty much dry, they wanted to build a house that...

Happy Meadows Courtyard House is a modern, age-in-place, net zero passive house designed by Chapel Hill, NC, architect Arielle Condoret Schechter. Constructed primarily of 5500 psi concrete, the 2300-square-foot one-story...

The building envelope’s tree-like silhouettes were inspired by the cypress forests of Alishan National Park, a national gem and popular destination located in Taiwan’s mountainous Chiayi County...

From her Tiny House on the Prairie in Boise, Idaho, minimalist designer and dressmaker Kristie Wolfe dreamt up her mini vacation home in Hawaii. The funds she saved by downsizing enabled her to build a tiny off-grid getaway...

There are few things we take for granted as much as our ability to turn on the tap and get water in a seemingly endless supply. Even during droughts, and despite warnings about shortages and conservation, most of us treat...

Built to house a single occupant at a time, the micro house offers a full suite of amenities in a compact energy-efficient space. The wood-clad shipping container structure can be prefabricated off-site to minimize site disturbance....

Active spaces are divided by a network of paths that create areas for complimentary gardens. If Frankfurters need serenity, but don't have time to leave the city, they can enjoy Yoga or Tai Chi or stroll through the vineyard....

Image © Mark Roy One of Australia's more bizarre creatures is the thorny devil or dragon, also known as the moloch. The devil is named for the ancient god Moloch, a hideous demon smeared with the blood of child sacrifice,...

Created by Zero Energy Design, the Green esCAPE Playhouse is a backyard retreat for kids that might just make the grown-ups a little bit jealous. Inside the weather-resistant spruce board house is an ample playroom featuring...

Read the rest of London’s 2012 Olympic Velodrome is an Elegant Energy-Efficient Stadium by Hopkins Architects Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2012 Summer Olympic Venue, Big Five London Olympics,...

Read the rest of Pelli Clarke Pelli’s Yale-NUS Campus Breaks Ground in Singapore Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: arboretum, César Pelli, college campus, eco garden, National University of...

Here at Inhabitat we’re suckers for the Solar Decathlon — the biennial design/build competition in which university design teams from all around the globe battle it out on the National Mall in Washington DC to...

The results of the 2011 Solar Decathlon has just been announced, and the winner is University of Maryland WaterShed house! And we are not surprised at all...

Read the rest of Steven Holl’s Sliced Porosity Block Tops Off in Chengdu, China Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Chengdu green building, china green building, China LEED Gold, China Mega project,...