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Architects: Choi Ropiha
Location: Mona Vale, NSW, Australia
Client: Graeme Jessup & Barbara Elkan
Environmental Systems: Graeme Jessup
Landscape: ExParrot
Engineering: Simpson Design Associates - Northrop Engineers
Construction: Graybuilt
Photographs: Brett Boardman
Architect Homepage: Choi Ropiha
The client for the project has a long standing interest in building sustainability developed through working at the Sustainable Energy Development Authority, a government agency in sustainability.
With this [...]

Architects: Arkhefield
Architects Homepage: www.arkhefield.com.au
Location: Ballandean, Queensland, Australia
Project Team: Andrew Gutteridge, John Croser, Steffen Tuck, Justin Boland
Project Year: 2006
Photographer: Scott Burrows, Aperture Architectural Photography
The Tobin Winery is located on a North facing gently sloping site on a vineyard in the heart of the Granite Belt. The vineyard merges with remnant scrub that borders a creek while [...]

This project is a contemporary minimalistic houses designed by Arthur Casas located in Iparonga, Brazil. With warm Cumaru wood paneling exterior, House in Iporanga is an architect’s residence in the middle of the forest. “I always wanted a house in the middle of the forest, in a place where I could relax and recharge my [...]

Architect: John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects
Project Team: John Friedman (principal designer), Alice Kimm, John Martin, Leigh Christy, Pauline Shu
Client: Craig Ehrlich
Contractor: Anthony Bonomo
Photography: Benny Chan, Fotoworks
Floor Area: 3995 SF
Construction Cost: $1.1 million
Completion: July 2004
This 3,900 square foot house in Santa Monica tests the hypothesis that it is not necessary to sacrifice beauty for sustainability - [...]

This is an eco-friendly dome homes from Solaleya. Imagine a circular loft with plenty of skylights and a solar array on top, gently rotating to orient itself towards the sun, and you have the basic idea. It’s like an eco-friendly update to the Chemosphere in LA. The durable domes are constructed using only FSC-certified wood [...]