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For U.S., Rewnewable Energy is Cheaper than Coal, Study Finds
Photo via Shutterstock A new study has found that wind farms are less costly than new coal-fired plants, and cost about the same, if not less, than new natural gas plants. It sounds pretty...
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Tour the PARKROYAL Hotel Singapore’s Surreal Sky Gardens and Greenery-Wrapped...
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LIVE WEBCAST: Join Us for ‘Design With a Purpose: Built Tough’ Panel...
In celebration of Archtober happening next month in NYC, the Ford Motor Company and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) chapter are teaming up to bring us a brand new live panel...
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6 Teams To Watch At This Year’s Solar Decathlon Competition in Irvine
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LIVE WEBCAST: Join Ford and the AIANY’s ‘Design With a Purpose’ Webcast and...
Inhabitat has joined forces with the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) and Ford Motor Company to bring to you a panel discussion and live, interactive webcast focused on resilient...
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FDA Finalizes Overdue Plans to Crack Down on Factory Farms’ Antibiotics Use
Photo via Shutterstock The Food and Drug Administration finally approved two long-overdue proposals this Wednesday to curb farmers’ frequent use of antibiotics as a way to slow the rapid growth of...
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World’s Tallest Modular Tower Gets First Mods Hoisted into Place
B2 , the tower that is expected to be the world’s tallest modular building once it’s complete, received its very first mods yesterday. The mods were hoisted atop the structure at the Atlantic Yards...
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Barclays Center to Be Topped with 130,000-Square-Foot Green Roof
Brooklyn’s Barclays Center has announced that it will be topping off its already impressive environmental achievements with a 130,000-square-foot green roof . Designed by SHoP Architects, the new...
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Cargo of 20 Million Bees Swarms After Truck Overturns
A tractor-trailer carrying a cargo of 460 beehives overturned last night on a ramp into the I-95 North in Newark, Delaware. The accident released the insects from their hives , causing a swarm of an...
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Free Outdoor Gym Pops Up on the Manhattan Waterfront
New Yorkers looking to get their bodies beach-ready now have a new place to work out – a waterfront outdoor gym on the Lower East Side. The colorful fitness center features 12 exercise machines (some...
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Self-parking Volvo crashes into people because owner forgot to buy feature...
Click here to view the embedded video. There are many plausible reasons to believe that self-driving cars are safer than those operated exclusively by humans. One is Google’s recent announcement that...
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This is what Uber’s futuristic new headquarters will look like
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SHoP reveals design for downtown Miami’s proposed “Innovation District”
Often called the Capital of Latin America , Miami has been identified as the richest city in the United States, the fifth richest globally by purchasing power, yet it lacks key characteristics of a...
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SHoP designs 50 solar-powered schools for earthquake-damaged regions in Nepal
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Apartment Tour: Inside the world’s tallest modular building
461 Dean , the tallest modular building in the world , opened this week in Brooklyn, New York. The 32-story rental property developed by Forest City Ratner Companies and designed by SHoP Architects...
View ArticleThe best online secondhand clothing shops
People are buying clothes and adding to their wardrobes like never before. This growth has been a boom for the fashion industry , but it has also lead to more and more clothes ending up in landfills...
View ArticleNYCs new eco-park and urban beach is designed to help clean the waterfront
New York City has just welcomed yet another gem to its growing number of waterfront parks — Pier 35, the long-awaited East River Waterfront project designed by Manhattan-based firm SHoP Architects in...
View ArticleWorlds tallest hybrid timber building proposed for Sydney
Australian software company Atlassian has tapped New York-based architecture firm SHoP Architects and Australian practice BVN to design its new Sydney headquarters — an approximately 40-story...
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FDA Finalizes Overdue Plans to Crack Down on Factory Farms’ Antibiotics Use
Photo via Shutterstock The Food and Drug Administration finally approved two long-overdue proposals this Wednesday to curb farmers’ frequent use of antibiotics as a way to slow the rapid growth of...
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World’s Tallest Modular Tower Gets First Mods Hoisted into Place
B2 , the tower that is expected to be the world’s tallest modular building once it’s complete, received its very first mods yesterday. The mods were hoisted atop the structure at the Atlantic Yards...
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