Interesting articles published around the Internet.

Nomadic Hotels and Lighthouses
Alexander Trevi in Pruned
We promise these to be last passages we ever quote from Cornelia Dean's Against the Tides....

EcoLogic Lofts Winds Up Green Chicago
Preston D K in Green Building Blog - Jetson Green
This is the initial rendering for a project called EcoLogic Lofts in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago, a project that developers plan to break ground on in early 2009....

PAGESPACE
lebbeuswoods in LEBBEUS WOODS
Some poets and writers—even the occasional architect—think of a page as a space to be explored and defined by words. Whether typeset or handwritten, words are marks of a precise nature...

Earthbags Gone Wild in the Philippines!
Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture
Mainly through the efforts of Illiac Diaz, a charismatic entrepenuer/actor/model/athlete, the Philippines has been home to some very innovative public works utilizing earthbags....

Time In the Tank
Eric De Place in WorldChanging
Take a look: Americans are falling behind -- most of us anyway. We're working longer than ever before to maintain a standard of living that once we took for granted....

Aria Denver Plans Clean Green Living
Preston D K in Green Building Blog - Jetson Green
Every now and then, Michelle Kaufmann gives us a rendering or a glimpse of a development she's working on in Colorado....

Bubbletecture H by Shuhei Endo
Alexandra Kain in Inhabitat
When Japanese architect Endo Shuhei adds another delectable design to his repertoire, you can expect a project title just as incredible as the structure itself....

Spain, what have you done?
James Shepherd in Where
I could understand it in the Middle Ages. Back then, if a country had a city in its realm, it was a clear exhibition of wealth....
Architect Layoffs
Brian Libby in Portland Architecture
Whenever there's an economic downturn, the building industry seems to take a large hit....

Doing 100 Things Well
Chris in Brand Avenue
 Many good things to highlight today from the Creative Cities Summit, from learning about Doug Farr's merging of sustainability with urban design through the work of his Chicago practice...

Shenzhen: China’s Instant City
Sean Marshall in Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
The first half of my visit to China took me to the working class city of Changchun and the modern city of Dalian, both in Manchuria, in the northeast. 

Having seen the Poll question that we are currently posing about the pertinence of re-utilizing shipping containers in construction, Ben Leffler pointed us to an article that was published on their Blog, called Ship Happens, that addresses the issue.

The Article, entitled Living Inside the Box: Creative Eco-Friendly Design Using Shipping Container , talks about the environmental impact the shipping contaners are having and displays creative samples of projects recycling those enclosures and using them as high-end condos, office buildings, low-income housing, or even relief shelters.

In a related article, we featured Steven Holl's T-Husene Development project being currently built in Ørestaad, Denmark.
We are complementing that article with an interview with the Architect about his ideas on the project.

Q.    How did you come up with the idea behind the Dancing T’s?

S.H. The process started with a period of several weeks in which I carefully studied the program, urban constraints, landscape, sunset, precious Scandinavian sky which was followed by a period of reflection. Then one morning I intuitively started to make sketches that were inspired by these studies and reflections.

In a lecture given in January 2007 at the the DLD (Digital Life Design) Conference, in Munich, Germany, Norman Foster talks about Sustainable Design and how the principle of sustainability were applied in some of his projects.

Recently published at TED, the lecture is quite insightful . It is  interesting to see how the embryonic ideas about sustainability were emerging in the 70s and how the architect  implemented in his earlier projects. He also describes how current computer technologies are being utilized for the enhancement of design in more recent projects.