Make Your Own Fire Pit Using Concrete Tree Rings
Mother Earth News
We now live in a residential neighborhood in the Central Valley of California. Campfires here are confined to well-defined … Even with these restrictions, our family still loves to sit around an evening fire. But we didn't want to spend a small …

UTSA Architecture Three+1 Project receives City of San Antonio Green Building …
UTSA Today
UTSA architecture students designed the three homes with an emphasis on energy efficiency to demonstrate viable alternatives to conventional low-income housing. Each home utilizes energy-conserving interior features such as sprayed foam insulation …

ABC Green Home Wins Best Zero Net Energy Home Design at PCBC 2013 …
Jetson Green
KTGY Group, Inc., Architecture + Planning was named the winner of the 2013 PCBC Gold Nugget Grand Award for the “Best Zero Net Energy Home Design” with its ABC (Affordable, Buildable and Certifiable) Green Home, a 1,695 square foot single-family …

EBTC announces Green Thumb winners
The Edwardsville Intelligencer
Residential award recipients include Randi Papke and David Jennings, Craig and Joan Hackett, Charlene Sultan, Michael and Adria Hildebrand, Betsy Parks, Brian Sneed, Elizabeth Stoff and Eric Darnell. … Just some of the plants she has used to handle …

At a French Port, Concrete Gains a Residential Allure
New York Times
Mr. Perret designed and built almost exclusively with concrete, creating flat-roofed apartment buildings with a total of 10,000 units lining broad thoroughfares on the 150-hectare, or 370-acre, site. It was in 2005, when Unesco declared the city center …