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Check Out This Thermal Image Of One Of The World’s First Passive Houses
Last night we talked about the Living Building Challenge, a certification system that rates the sustainability of a building over the course of a year. Here’s a followup about 23 Park Place, a Brooklyn Heights townhouse that’s probably the most energy efficient home in the city, thanks to its Passive House certification.
A Home Made From 900 Lego-Like Blocks
Modular construction is as old as settled civilisation and as ubiquitous as Lego, but it’s less than common to see an architect literally reinventing the brick, as Jose María Sáez and David Barragán have. The pair of Ecuadorian architects are the subject of a recent profile in Dwell, where they discuss how they built a sprawling home out of 900 identical concrete blocks, designed and fabricated specifically for the project.
Every Library Should Come With This Built-In Slide
It’s no secret how the recently built Panorama House, which stretches along the hilltop like a beautiful, stone accordion, got its name. But while the outside is lovely to behold, it’s what’s hiding within that really caught our attention: an awesome library-slide crossbreed in a stadium seating body.
This 300-Year-Old Farmhouse Hides Its Age
Casa Olivi is 300 years old, but after a massive renovation project at the hands of Swiss architects Markus Wespi and Jérôme de Meuron, it doesn’t look a day over 100. Located near the town of Treia in the Marche region of Italy, the house sits high up on a hill where it offers incredible 360-degree panoramic views.
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