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In Its Element

Homes Designed For The Environment

November 2008, Vol. 09 Issue 01,

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The Laundry List

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For all of the grass stain–elimination contests we see on TV among name-brand laundry detergents, it’s the washers and dryers that do the heavy lifting. Now the machines are stealing the spotlight…

My House »

Abiquiu Debut

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Abiquiu, New Mexico, owes this rugged new house to a plucky pair of residents, two talented architects and one long-sighted and very gracious loan officer.

Off the Grid »

On the Rock

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Katja and Adam Thom’s cabin, on an exposed postglacial archipelago in Canada’s windswept Georgian Bay, is more than eight miles from the nearest road.

Detour »

Santiago, Chile

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Santiago may be a tamer city than its South American brethren, but as architect Sebastián Irarrázaval tells us, there's change afoot where colonial legacy meets modern urban design.

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iT House, Joshua Tree

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The iT House brings together raw industrial aesthetics with the tactics of green design to forge a new home in the sunbaked wilds of California’s east.

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Floating House, Lake Huron

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On the edge of a tiny island accessible only by boat, this buoyant summer home lives the life aquatic.

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Lava Flow 4, The Big Island

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Set into the dense tropical foliage of Hawaii’s wildest coast is a house that goes with the flow by welcoming the breeze.

Outside »

Nature’s Graces

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With the lightness and imagination of origami and the mathematical exactitude of digital design, this open-air chapel invites all creatures into its folds.

Concepts »

All Aboard

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Helmut Jahn’s dynamic new supportive-housing facility brings green design and a new outlook on life to the Windy City.

Nice Modernist »

Todd Larson and Elemental Awareness

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In the summer of 2001, Element Skateboards founder Johnny Schillereff stumbled on a new addition to a YMCA skate camp in Northern California: a nature survival-skills program. Over the course of…

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