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Vista Skywall Systems recently completed the façade for a new high-rise residential project located in Brooklyn, New York.
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...
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Having checked your calendar, you know it’s summer break. This means kids are out of school, days are longer, and it’s chaos ...
Feb. 22. La Sonnambula: West Bay Opera presents its first production of Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece “La sonnambula (The Sleepwalker),” fully staged.
While it was not immediately clear whether the home met passive house standards, the design was certainly consistent with its principles, said Johnny Rezvani, communications director for passive ...
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The lush living wall, bursting with shiny leaves, measures more than 8 feet by 8 feet and welcomes visitors to the 32-unit Passive House building at Hamilton at Eagleview, a residential piece of the ...
The elevations facing the street were envisioned as a 14-foot-high (4.3-metre) "acoustic wall." Its facade is fronted by a massive concrete wall ...
More Emissions Cuts, Faster. The Passive House (in Germany, Passivhaus) standard is more often applied to single-family homes, and passive solar design conferences dating back at least as far as 1980 ...
Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive has retrofitted a terraced house in Queens, New York to meet Passive House energy efficiency standards. The 1,152-square-foot (107-square-metre) brick townhouse was ...
Other passive strategies were specific to Ontario’s climate. Like most passive house buildings, low U-value window systems and high R-value wall insulation was used to decrease heat transfer.