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Sun Boxes Hit the Big Screen
Sun Boxes at Vermont Parks are amazing! If you remember – in June – we posted about the awesome Sun Boxes at Vermont Parks. Well good news for those of you who want more. Installation artist Craig Colorusso has finished his film featuring Sun Boxes, Cubemusic, and MB 89. The film will be premiering at The Camden International [...]
In Focus: Hotels of the Future
The future of high tech hotels is a decidedly green one, and there have been a number of breathtaking design proposals popping up in recent months for architecturally innovative hotels all around the globe. Not to mention the myriad new technologies that experts say will soon be giving the hotel industry a futuristic facelift. So, [...]
The Solar Floating Resort Concept from Michele Puzzolante
Hotel conceptions utilizing solar energy are not really a new fad, especially when we consider the slew of green technologies flooding our modernistic avenues. However, a luxury floating hotel conception that would use low cost, dye sensitized solar cells certainly insinuates a scope of novelty and exoticism. In relation to our second example, Italian industrial [...]
The Greenest Hotels in the World
You might consider yourself environmentally conscious at home. You may turn off lights and save water religiously. You may recycle more than you throw in the trash. You may adjust your thermostat to avoid extra heating and cooling costs. Unfortunately, too many people are unable to continue their green living habits when they stay in [...]
Michael Jantzen’s Solar Winds Desert Hotel Proposal
The brainchild of architect and designer Michael Jantzen, the Solar Winds Desert Hotel is a conceptual design for a large luxuryeco hotel that is powered by solar and wind energy. With 140 rooms, thehotel design is symbolically evolved from thoughts about certain desertplans and how they function in hot dry climate. The symbolic leaves of [...]
SOM Delivers India’s First LEED Gold Certified Hotel
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM) have announced the completion of India’s first LEED GoldCertified hotel, which has been built in the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. Christened the Park Hotel, the hotel has been described as a“Modern Indian Palace,” which combines local craftsmanship and asustainable design. The 250 room hotel features a façade [...]
Renewed Hotel in Rio to Serve as a Model for Sustainability
Built in 1884 by Pedro II, Emperor of Portugal, as a luxurious rest stop for wealthy travelers on their way to the Corcovadostatue, the Paineiras Hotel in Rio has fallen into disrepair and wasabandoned about three decades ago. Officials in Rio are now trying tobring lost glory back to the hotel, by transforming it into [...]
LAVA Studio to design the city center of Masdar City
Eco Factor: Sustainable city center for a totally sustainable eco-city in the desert. Australian studio LAVA has won an international competition to design the center of Masdar,a completely sustainable city in the desert. The design will include acentral plaza, five-star hotel, long stay hotel, convention center,entertainment complex and retail facilities. Thewinning design from the company [...]