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Big Steps in Building: Ban Demolition
Walnut Hall, Toronto TreeHugger defends the little steps that we all have to take to address the problems that face us, but we have to consider the big steps too, the initiatives that have to be...
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Documenting Destruction: Paul Rudoph Houses
This TreeHugger thinks that we should ban demolition; that every building has embodied energy and value, and there should be a damn good reason before one is allowed to take it down. We have posted...
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Demolition by Stupidity
Designated an historic structure, the Simcoe Hotel "was built in 1887 by Charles Ayre, who operated the facility as a small hotel which served the working-class neighbourhood "Riverside" (now part of...
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Recycling the Whole House
We have expressed reservations about demolition, but if you are going to do it, do it like Alice Keller, who dismantled her existing 1300 square foot home and rebuilt her new one with the same 2x4s....
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Dude, Where's My House?!
A Russian woman named Lyudmila Martemyanova returned home last month from a vacation out of town, only to find that her house had been completely leveled to the ground. "There was nothing
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"Green" McMansions Torched in Seattle
Street of Dreams is a type of home show where builders go all out to build jazzy homes that are used for fund-raising and then sold. Often over-the-top McMansions, the 2007 Seattle Street of Dreams...
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Vegan Strip Clubs, Dinosaurs in Ohio, Houses for a Buck
The Carrot Some Vegans Deplore"TWO things that you can find a lot of in Portland, Ore., are vegans and strip clubs. Johnny Diablo decided to open a business to combine both." New York Times catches up...
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The Green Scare and Civil Liberties
John Vidal of the Guardian looks at last month's torching of "green" McMansions and asks a lot of questions, like " The Earth Liberation Front was to blame. But was it? Does it even exist? And why is...
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Big Steps in Building: Deconstruct, Don't Demolish
We have stated that the real big step in building would be to ban demolition and renovate, but if the building has to come down, at least it should be deconstructed. The demolition numbers from the US...
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New York's Got A Glass Stampede, But Is It Green?
New York isn't Shanghai, but it also is changing at a phenomenal rate. New York Magazine notes that "In the past fifteen fat years, more than 76,000 new buildings have gone up, more than 44,000 were...
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Deconstructing Cleveland: The Art of Taking a House Apart
There are 8,000 vacant houses in Cleveland; the city is demolishing 1,100 by the end of the year. You can push them down and take them to the dump in a day, or you can carefully deconstruct them and...
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Diane Keaton on How We Treat Old Buildings Like Plastic Bags
Besides being a terrific actor, Diane Keaton is a former board member of the Los Angeles Conservancy and is currently a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She bemoans the loss of...
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GreenBuild: Richard Moe Has a Tough Row to Hoe
I really felt sorry for Richard Moe, and a bit angry, too. Here he is, the keynote speaker for Thursday morning, with a hall that can seat thousands, and there are maybe two hundred people. Downstairs...
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The Greenest Brick is the One That's Already in the Wall
TreeHugger is full of photovoltaic glass and ground source heat pumps, but ultimately all of those "green gizmos", as Donovan Rypkema called them, cost a lot of money to buy and to maintain. But he is...
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ReFab Now: We Can Solve It Gets Renovation
It is nice to see that Al Gore's We Can Solve It people get the benefits of renovation and upgrading as well as new green building. Not only does it reduce our carbon footprint, but creates more jobs-...
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Kinder, Gentler Demolition: A Bright Idea from Japan
The implosion of a Las Vegas hotel is, like everything else in Sin City, a spectacle, with fireworks, multi-story countdown lights, crowds gathered to watch, and a big, cool
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Buildings from the Last New Deal Not Surviving This One
Eleanor Roosevelt opened Greenhills, Ohio in 1938- "a healthier, more verdant environment, with shopping, recreation and nearly 200 small modernist apartment buildings and houses surrounded by a...
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Building Storeys: Making Historic Buildings Hip
Zaha and Rem don't do building restoration; it is green and creates a lot of jobs, but it's not cool and doesn't get you on the cover of the right magazines. Even at a conference like Greenbuild the...
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Quote of the Day: Richard Moe on "This Old Wasteful House"
Richard Moe at Greenbuild Richard Moe is the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is concerned that many of our old buildings will be sacrificed on the altar of energy...
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A Visit To A Very Different Michigan Central Station
Yesterday I wrote about the possible loss of Michigan Central Station in Detroit, which I considered a tragedy. Citizens of Detroit disagreed, saying that there was no money, there were other greater...
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Blair Kamin: Historic preservation and green architecture: friends or foes?
Blair Kamin is the Pulitzer-winning architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, and a contributing editor of Architectural Record. He talked to the Michigan Historic Preservation Network last
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Venice Biennale Has Artists' Boat and an Eco Note
It's the Venice Biennale again, the celebrity and champagne studded art fair, where it's not clear whether the parties or the art are what's on show. Each country has a pavilion on the shores of the...
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Preservation is Staying Green: Stephanie Meeks Replaces Richard Moe
I was saddened when Richard Moe announced his retirement as president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; he was a huge influence, a strong and early voice delivering a message that the...
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In With The Old: Fixing What We've Got Comes Before Re-imagining What Might Be
Over 40% of our energy consumption goes into powering our buildings, and we all know that we have to cut that Godzilla-sized footprint. But it seems that most of our efforts go to looking at new stuff...
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Design Competition for Pedestrian Bridge in Providence, Rhode Island
The City of Providence is staging a limited design competition to select the designer for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge that will replace the old Interstate 195 Bridge that spans the...
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In Italy, a 300 Year Old, Fire Ravaged Farm House Is Restored
We always say that the greenest brick is the one already in the wall: that it's better to revamp or refurbish an existing building than to build an entirely new one, even if the newcomer is as green...
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Future of London's Olympic Buildings After the Games isn't Assured
London's successful bid for the Olympic 2012 Games was based on its commitment to a sustainable legacy: maintaining and reusing the buildings for athletic and community use after the big event....
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From A to Zierfische; Obsolete Signs are Being Saved from the Dump at the...
The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their...
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12 year old Manhattan Museum to be demolished, it's "too opaque."
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien join the Rubble Club, as The Museum of Modern Art tears down their nice bit of modern art.
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yök Casa + Cultura: (down)cycling old walls and preserving for the future
Recyclability is key at yök's eco-renovation. First, preserve everything we can, then recycle everything that has to go and lastly, make sure any new stuff is recyclable in the future.
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