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Sustainable Modernism: House in Regensburg

Sustainable Modernism: House in Regensburg | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

Building a green home, while increasingly popular in recent years, isn't a completely new concept, and the House in Regensburg by Thomas Herzog, built in 1977, still resonates today as a unique and beautiful example of thoughtful, site-responsive architecture.

 

Elegant in its simplicity, the design employs key sustainable principles, including passive heating and cooling, appropriate material selection and responsive building form, all of which enable the structure to have minimal development impact while maintaining a high degree of efficiency- the result of an integrated approach to site, technology, and design.

Herzog's House in Regensburg is not only a beautiful example of modern design, but also...


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Jonathan Belisle's comment, September 28, 2012 3:23 PM
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MEGATRENDS: The 6 'Gamechangers' That Will Impact The Planet For Decades

MEGATRENDS: The 6 'Gamechangers' That Will Impact The Planet For Decades | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is out with its annual forecast of what the world will look like in 2050.
The report focuses on six "gamechanging" trends and events that will shape the world in the coming years.
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9 Historical Figures Who May Have Predicted Our Future

9 Historical Figures Who May Have Predicted Our Future | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

We like to think that many of our fantastic dreams of the future — from space colonization to artificial intelligence and human enhancement — are fairly recent conceptions. But nothing could be further from the truth. Futurist visionaries have been speculating about these possibilities for centuries. And now, as we head into an era of accelerating change, some of these longstanding predictions may actually come true. Here are nine futurists of the past 400 years whose predictions were ahead of their times.


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Walking backwards into the future

Futurist Thomas Frey shares some of his predictions for what may lie ahead for humankind.


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