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Z for Two
In Portland, Oregon, two adjoining six-story homes on a formerly run-down urban lot add to the neighborhood’s density and its green cred.
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Portland's Cape Cod Remodel
With its slim profile and sleek gray exterior, Lola Oyibo and Eric Boardman’s home in Portland, Oregon bears little resemblance to the house it used to be. Unable to afford the 40% down…
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Creative Commons
Craving not just a home but a proper piece of architecture, a handful of design- and business-savvy Dutch families banded together, hired an architect, and set about forming the community that…
Dwell Collections
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Easy Being Green: Off the Grid
We trek far afield each issue to bring you energy-efficient residences from around the globe, and they appear in all their green glory in our “Off the Grid” section. We revisited our…
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Building Green in Harlem
Videos
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Building Green in Harlem: A Green Brownstone?
In this video series, Dwell follows a New York couple with a passion for building green through the challenges—and triumphs—of renovation, from finding the design-build team to…
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Building Green in Harlem: Too Late to Turn Back
In this video series, Dwell follows a New York couple with a passion for building green through the challenges—and triumphs—of renovation, from finding the design-build team to finalizing the design.
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Building Green in Harlem: Building The Green Dream Team
In this video series, Dwell follows a New York couple with a passion for building green through the challenges—and triumphs—of renovation, from finding the design-build team to finalizing the design.
Events
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2nd annual Portland Architecture + Design Festival
The American Institute of Architects Portland and the Center for Architecture announce the 2nd annual Portland Architecture + Design Festival happening throughout October. This month-long, citywide…
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Women in Green Forum
The Women In Green Forum will highlight women’s impact on the environmental arena, promote the sustainable products offered by emerging green companies and provide opportunities for women to…
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Green IT Economic Summit 2010
The Green IT Economic Summit showcases the benefits of breakthroughs in Green hardware and software technology. We empower businesses to use resources more efficiently, delivering greater profits…
I see the architects imported the high efficiency double paned windows that are so common through out northern Europe. After living with these wonderful dual axis windows for three years in Germany I am happy to see someone being sensible and importing them for US use. I wonder who the architects imported through as I'd love to install these windows on my home here in Virginia.
Hey, Emperor Nude alert! Have you noticed that this is an enormous black cube dropped like some 2001 totem in the middle of a traditional neighborhood? Windows placed with no consciousness of where the sun is; no place to meet the neighbors (they drag chairs onto the DRIVEWAY?), completely stark and cold design. Sorry but this cheap and easy box is not a design at all but a throw-back, a no brainer, and not stylish but forbidding. This is not architecture, it's not sensitive to the community, it's too big for the lot and the surrounding structures. I bet the neighborhood fought it, and that's no badge of honor for the guy who built it.
As an east-coast native I find it funny that by portland standards a suburban duplex with a garage door as an entrance is considered density-bearing and "urban."
"The structure holds itself trimly in place rather than sprawling to the edges of its lot..." Is this referring to the 3 feet on either side? I like modern architecture, but context is far more important. My sympathies to the rest of the neighborhood.
Wow - an incredibly inhospitable neighbor that is heralded as good design. Not so fast. And not so good either.
Beautiful house ！Good design！I like the color of the house！
at least it looks better from the inside than the outside...
Craftman moldings have more character then this. "Waechter’s design similarly favors a neighborly approach to architecture. Sandwiched between two traditional foursquare-style Portland homes, the Z-Haus imitates their boxy feel, plus both front and back facades line up perfectly with the houses on either side “so we can look through our backyard to the neighbors’ yards,” says Waechter, which maximizes everyone’s sense of space." They are so thoughtful. I'm glad I am miles away from that monstrosity. I will enjoy my home that is stuck in the past.
I love the window layout! In fact, my wife Shelley and I are currently building a modern, passive solar home for ourselves. (I will submit pictures and facts later.) However, we were so impressed with the window layout we utilized the same approach for our attic windows. Again, I love it!
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