Long-planned Bellingham condominium project gets green light
TheNewsTribune.com
Public comment is now being taken for the design review of Phase 1 – 75 detached, single-family condominiums north of June Road. According to a … To download a copy, go to this cob.org webpage for the "Multifamily Residential Design Handbook" (PDF).

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Mini-apartments are the next big thing in US cities
Green Bay Press Gazette
Many anti-McMansions – also known as "aPodments," "micro-lofts," "metro suites" or "sleeping rooms" – are about 300 square feet, which is slightly larger than a single-car garage and one-eighth the size of the average new U.S. single-family home (also …

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Muriya's boutique hotels reaffirms green credentials by supporting ESO
AME Info (press release)
Sifah boasts of a beautiful coastline with an expansive sea that is home to many species of whales and dolphins – creating awareness and protecting these species is the main aim of our Renaissance whale & dolphin research project," said Lamees Daar …

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The experimental designers making furniture out of concrete
Financial Times
But it is a fluid material from which we can now make any sort of three-dimensional shape,” says Isaac Friedman-Heiman, who co-founded Souda, a New York City-based design studio, less than a year ago with fellow graduates from the Parsons school of …

Man turns to grain silo for energy-efficient home on Bozeman Pass
Billings Gazette
At first he taught home weatherization for the Montana State University Extension Department of Housing and Environmental Health. He now teaches green design building classes for the Residential Building Performance Program at Gallatin College.