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FootprintWire 17.05.13

17-May-2013
Today’s green news: Skyscraper proposal has wind turbines embedded in its facade
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

13-May-2013
This week’s events include a talk at the RIBA by Charles Correa and and a debate on sustainability within the creative industries
FootprintWire 13.05.13

13-May-2013
Today’s green news: Solar-powered refrigerator to reduce food waste in the developing world
FootprintWire 09.05.13

9-May-2013
Today’s green news: Floating ocean lab designed in collaboration between an architect, oceanographer and an astronaut due to launch this year
FootprintWire 08.05.13

8-May-2013
Today’s green news: Brazilian practice proposes Amazonian research station
Reader offer: May 2013

3-May-2013
Win a copy of Huw Heywood’s 101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture
FootprintWire 03.05.13

3-May-2013
Today’s green news: Founders of the Centre for Alternative Technology talk about how it all began
FootprintWire 02.05.13

2-May-2013
Today’s green news: American artist creates solar seed-sowing machines which detect air pollution
Books Received - April 2013

1-May-2013
Footprint’s pick of the best green reads this month
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

29-Apr-2013
This week’s events include a talk about the BUS Methodology hosted by ARUP and Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado’s Genesis at the Natural History Museum
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

22-Apr-2013
This week’s events include a talk on the value of investing in landscape, networking with the UK-GBC and green drinks in Glasgow
FootprintWire 22.04.13

22-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Carbon-neutral housing is exhibited in Hamburg
FootprintWire 19.04.13

19-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Haiti to open a solar-powered hospital
FootprintWire 15.04.13

15-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Vietnamese architects propose cheap and sustainable bamboo houses
FootprintWire 11.04.13

11-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Plan for a new northern capital city for Australia wins ‘CAPITheticAL’ competition
FootprintWire 10.04.13

10-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Construction starts on Herzog & de Meuron’s natural bathing lake near Basel
FootprintWire 09.04.13

9-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Glaxo SmithKline’s US headquarters achieves double LEED platinum
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

8-Apr-2013
This week’s events include an exhibition of environmental photography at the Royal Geographical Society
FootprintWire 08.04.13

8-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Energy harvested from runners at Paris marathon
FootprintWire 05.04.13

5-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Chicago to convert abandoned railway line into a ‘green transport artery’
Reader offer: April 2013

4-Apr-2013
Win a copy of Design for Climate Change, tailored to architects and designers to future proof designs and preserve existing buildings
FootprintWire 04.04.13

4-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: New York Whole Foods to grow rooftop produce
FootprintWire 03.04.13

3-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Bladeless wind energy generator unveiled by Delft University of Technology
Books Received - March 2013

3-Apr-2013
Footprint’s pick of the best green reads this month
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

2-Apr-2013
This week’s events include the UK launch of the Living Building Challenge
FootprintWire 02.04.13

2-Apr-2013
Today’s green news: Smart toilet for the developing world
FootprintWire 28.03.13

28-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: Wave energy generator wins $100,000 prize
FootprintWire 27.03.13

27-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: Algae-powered facade on show at IBA Hamburg
Register now to attend Green Sky Thinking 2013

26-Mar-2013
AJ to host ‘Mind the Gap’ breakfast seminar on 18 April
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

25-Mar-2013
This week’s events include a discussion about how architects can shape the future
FootprintWire 18.03.13

18-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: Pocket parks initiative transforms London’s neglected spaces
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

18-Mar-2013
This weeks events include AJ’s Women in Architecture Awards Luncheon
FootprintWire 15.03.13

15-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: HOK’s £1.7 billion masterplan for Istanbul’s financial district begins construction
FootprintWire 14.03.13

14-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: Arctic parasols proposed to protect polar ice
FootprintWire 13.03.13

13-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: KLM initiates bio-fueled transatlantic flights
FootprintWire 12.03.13

12-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: Solar ‘tree’ proposed for minimal impact retreat
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

11-Mar-2013
This week’s events include an a talk discussing BIG’s designs for a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen
FootprintWire 11.03.13

11-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: Brooks + Scarpa design LA high school clad in PV
FootprintWire 08.03.13

8-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: Splitterwerk Architects design building powered by algae in Hamburg
FootprintWire 06.03.13

6-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: French architects propose mixed-use eco-towers for Shenzen, China
Reader offer: March 2013

6-Mar-2013
Win a copy of Mark Binelli’s The Last Days of Detroit, reviewed in this week’s AJ
FootprintWire 05.03.13

5-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: Californian solar thermal plant billed as the ‘world’s largest’ nears completion
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

4-Mar-2013
This week’s events include a talk at Ecobuild by AJ sustainability editor Hattie Hartman on women in sustainable construction
FootprintWire 04.03.13

4-Mar-2013
Today’s green news: Soccket ball generates power from a game of football
FootprintWire 01.03.13

28-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Traditional bamboo craftmanship meets digital parametrics in Hong Kong pavillion
FootprintWire 28.02.13

28-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Brazilian eco-hotel will feature green walls and roofs
FootprintWire 27.02.13

27-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Utah home clad in recycled steel achieves LEED silver
FootprintWire 26.02.13

26-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Chinese modular home created from stacked shipping containers clad in bamboo
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

25-Feb-2013
This week’s events include discussions on wave power, resource efficiency and sustainable growth
FootprintWire 25.02.13

25-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Climate change, poverty and development portrayed in environmental photographer of the year comp
FootprintWire 21.02.13

21-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Studio Moffitt complete self sufficient Ontario home
FootprintWire 20.02.13

20-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Arup envision future skyscraper living in 2050
FootprintWire 19.02.13

19-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Urban Farm Units created from shipping containers for growing food in cities
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

18-Feb-2013
This week’s events include Bill Bordass speaking at a debate about professionalism and James Timberlake on prototyping architecture
FootprintWire 18.02.13

18-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Swine Studio recycle waste plastic caught by fishing trawlers into chairs
FootprintWire 15.02.13

15-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Chapel in University of North Florida utilizes passive ventilation and natural light
FootprintWire 14.02.13

14-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: ‘Modified Atmosphere Packaging’ provides sustainable roses for Valentine’s Day
FootprintWire 13.02.13

13-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Carbon neutral Zurich office nears completion by Shiguru Ban Architects
FootprintWire 12.02.13

12-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Hong Kong pop-up theatre constructed from bamboo with nylon sheeting
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

11-Feb-2013
This week’s events include a talk at Cullinan Studios and a debate on the future of architectural education
FootprintWire 11.02.13

11-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: A sustainable alternative to traditional plastic Lego: the Mokulock
FootprintWire 08.02.13

8-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: V-Tent parking system combines charging for electric vehicles, PV panels and shelter
FootprintWire 07.02.13

7-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Mass Design Group’s Rwandan Hospital uses natural daylight and ventilation to create a healing environment
FootprintWire 06.02.13

6-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Bam! win the 2013 MAXXI Young Architects Programme with a floating balloon providing shade
FootprintWire 05.02.13

5-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Carbon capture storage system takes inspiration from sea urchins
Books Received - February 2013

4-Feb-2013
Footprint’s pick of the best green reads this month
Reader offer: February 2013

4-Feb-2013
Win a copy of Green Architecture Now: Volume 2, Taschen’s latest roundup of sustainable buildings from around the globe
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

4-Feb-2013
This week’s events include the first in a series of talks from the 2012 ar+d Emerging Architecture Awards winners and another from Wolfgang Feist
FootprintWire 04.02.13

4-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: Natural temporary sand art, by British artist Tony Plant
FootprintWire 01.02.13

1-Feb-2013
Today’s green news: African Konza Technology City masterplan by SHoP Architects enters first phase
Books Received - January 2013

31-Jan-2013
Footprint’s pick of the best green reads this month
FootprintWire 31.01.13

31-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Tokyo townhouse encourages nature into urban site by Ryue Nishizawa
FootprintWire 30.01.13

30-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: LEED-gold certified high rise development in China by Steven Holl Architects completes
FootprintWire 29.01.13

29-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Project Bosco Verticale in Milan promotes biodiversity, by Boeri Studio
FootprintWire 28.01.13

28-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Warming winters caused by large energy consumption of North American cities
Footprint's 5 things to do this week

28-Jan-2013
This week’s events include a conference on the efficiencies of BIM and discussion on why social sustainability matters
FootprintWire 25.01.13

25-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Chicago’s Green Tech Centre receives LEED platinum certfification for its existing building
FootprintWire 23.01.13

23-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: nArchitects win competition to develop new modular housing model for New York City
FootprintWire 21.01.13

21-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: New office HQ for environmental organisation The Bullitt Foundation nears completion in Seattle
FootprintWire 18.01.13

18-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Steven Holl Architects win design competition for first buildings in Chinese eco-city
FootprintWire 17.01.13

17-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Montage of images by Chinese photographers shows residents protecting themselves from smog
FootprintWire 16.01.13

16-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Konbit Shelter build post disaster ‘superadobe’ homes from biodegradable materials in Haiti
FootprintWire 15.01.13

15-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Russian airport features undulating roof design that harnesses light by Grimshaw Architects
FootprintWire 14.01.13

14-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: American designer creates pre-fabricated energy-efficient office units that avoid the daily commute to work
FootprintWire 09.01.13

9-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Bamboo and recycled materials used to construct low-impact eco school in Thailand by 24H Architecture
FootprintWire 08.01.13

8-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: dmvA Architects experimental modular student accommodation features facades with solar panels and green walls
FootprintWire 04.01.13

4-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Pilot project for climate resilient architecture creates floating pavilion homes
FootprintWire 03.01.13

3-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Beijing-based People’s Architecture Office has designed an adaptable housing unit mounted on a tricycle
Reader offer: January 2013

3-Jan-2013
Win a copy of The Making of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a new book which tells the story of the Olympic Park
FootprintWire 02.01.13

2-Jan-2013
Today’s green news: Artist creates art installation from recycled Christmas trees in New York
Footprint’s green seasonal greetings

27-Dec-2012
Green cards received at the AJ
FootprintWire 21.12.12

21-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: A Saudi Arabian spa development uses a facade of perforated titanium panels to reduce the need for artifical lighting and provide passive cooling
Footprint in the AJ

20-Dec-2012
The year of sustainable design
FootprintWire 20.12.12

20-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Studio Roosegaarde has created lights from salt crystals grown around LEDs
FootprintWire 19.12.12

19-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Eco-tourism chalets in the Sri Lankan rainforest achieve LEED Platinum
FootprintWire 18.12.12

18-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Gensler’s skyscraper HQ for PNC Bank is naturally ventilated by a double skin facade
FootprintWire 17.12.12

17-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: STL Architects proposal for Helsinki Library incorporates a green roof and transparent building envelope
FootprintWire 14.12.12

14-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Yazdani Studio proposes dynamic solar facade for Seoul office building
FootprintWire 13.12.12

13-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Vietnam’s Vo Trong Nghia Architects use bamboo for a cost-effective housing prototype
FootprintWire 12.12.12

12-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Students design wooden cafe from salvaged scaffolding boards and parquet flooring for RCA’s student union
FootprintWire 11.12.12

11-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Algae project in Paris harvests energy for the building while recycling grey water
FootprintWire 10.12.12

10-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Light therapy lamps run by renewable energy installed at Swedish bus stops
FootprintWire 7.12.12

7-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: IN_TENTA design low energy, low footprint mobile hotel pods
FootprintWire 6.12.12

6-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Photographs of London smog on its 60 year anniversary
FootprintWire 5.12.12

5-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Organic food farm in Shanghai utilises 78 shipping containers
FootprintWire 4.12.12

4-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: Kjellgren Kaminsky wins competition to build Passivhaus school in Sweden
Reader offer - December 2012

3-Dec-2012
Win one of three copies of Atelier Ten’s Green House:Green Engineering
FootprintWire 3.12.12

3-Dec-2012
Today’s green news: ZGF Architects designed LEED gold office building in the USA
FootprintWire 30.11.12

30-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: laser lights create virtual cycle lanes
FootprintWire 29.11.12

29-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Shine Architecture and TA Arquitectura have refurbished an exisiting university building in Mexico
FootprintWire 28.11.12

28-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Human heartbeat generates electricity
FootprintWire 26.11.12

26-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Net-zero desert city developed without water or concrete.
FootprintWire 23.11.12

23-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: New interactive sustainable design toolkit launched at the BRE, Watford
FootprintWire 22.11.12

22-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: A green wedding is a WISE wedding
Winner of the 2012 RIBA ICE McAslan Bursary revealed

21-Nov-2012
The RIBA 2012 ICE McAslan Bursary has been won by architect Nicola Antaki for her school design project in India
FootprintWire 21.11.12

21-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Greenbuild 2012 displays Paradigm House, designed to LEED Platinum standards
FootprintWire 20.11.12

20-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: How many kWh/m2/yr does your house do?
FootprintWire 19.11.12

19-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Sustainable transport in East London with bamboo bike workshops
FootprintWire 16.11.12

16-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Harvard’s Ecological Urbanism app displays interactive case studies from around the world
FootprintWire 15.11.12

15-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: 100m tall prefabricated timber wind turbine completed in Germany
Reader offer: Complimentary pass for upcoming V&A symposium

14-Nov-2012
Win a ticket to ‘Sustaining Identity III’ at the V&A on November 29
FootprintWire 14.11.12

14-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Greenpeace provides power for New Yorkers with a solar truck
FootprintWire 13.11.12

13-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Movements of stunt kites used to harness power
FootprintWire 12.11.12

12-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Carbon Trust launches app to encourage energy and carbon savings in schools
FootprintWire 09.11.12

9-Nov-2012
Today’s green news…Mayor’s RE:LEAF scheme encourages Londoners to plant trees
FootprintWire 08.11.12

8-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Re-Nuble recycles organic waste to produce green electricity
FootprintWire 07.11.12

7-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Obama pledges to tackle American emissions
Reader offer - November 2012

6-Nov-2012
Win one of three copies of Routledge’s Designed for Habitat: Collaborations with Habitat for Humanity
FootprintWire 06.11.12

6-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: UK’s longest power station occupation ends as No Dash For Gas campaigners absail from cooling towers
FootprintWire 05.11.12

5-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Experts suggest solutions for mitigating climate change in New York City
FootprintWire 02.11.12

2-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Bloomberg endorses Obama’s leadership on climate change proposals
UK students sweep Fentress Architects' Workplace of the Future competition

1-Nov-2012
Edinburgh students propose overhaul of Chinese agriculture with cloud technology to combat urbanisation
FootprintWire 01.11.12

1-Nov-2012
Today’s green news: Cyclehoop launches online map of free bike pumps across London
Books Received: October 2012

31-Oct-2012
Footprint’s pick of the best green reads
FootprintWire 31.10.12

31-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Was hurricane Sandy a product of global warming?
FootprintWire 30.10.12

30-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Mobile app launched to help identify Ash dieback disease
Reader offer: SusCon seminars

29-Oct-2012
Open days at Stephen George’s BREEAM Outstanding SusCon in Dartford
FootprintWire 29.10.12

29-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: aaPGR Architects develop perforated shading panels designed to reduce solar gain for research headquarters in Paris
FootprintWire 26.10.12

26-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Artist’s film highlights London’s air pollution
FootprintWire 25.10.12

25-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: _Space Group completes £50million BREEAM Excellent Palatine Centre at Durham University
Reader Offer - Green Register CPD sessions

24-Oct-2012
Complimentary ticket to upcoming ‘CAP’EM Lifecycle Eco materials’ seminar in London
FootprintWire 24.10.12

24-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: OFIS complete 8,600m² low energy student apartments in Paris
FootprintWire 23.10.12

23-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Plans to mass market energy efficient floating homes
RIBA launch green burial site contest

22-Oct-2012
[Registration deadline: 15 November] RIBA Competition open to designs for a £600,000 reception building at Alne Wood Park, in Warwickshire
FootprintWire 22.10.12

22-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Government’s £1,000 cash back incentive aims to encourage green deal take up
AJ seeks sustainability intern

19-Oct-2012
Apply now for a November start
FootprintWire 19.10.12

19-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Vinoly designed US office will incorporate a large scale transparent PV roof
FootprintWire 18.10.12

18-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: New website supports local tree planting through scrapping cars
Reader Offer - Green Register seminars

16-Oct-2012
Complimentary tickets to upcoming ‘All in Detail’ seminars in Manchester, Bristol and London
FootprintWire 17.10.12

16-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Student video answers the question ‘what is a u-value?’
FootprintWire 16.10.12

16-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Estudio Sputnik launches recyclable eco-friendly ‘satellite’ furniture
FootprintWire 15.10.12

15-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Sheppard Robson’s refurbished £24million learning centre opens at the University of Manchester
FootprintWire 12.10.12

12-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: New software graphically shows the carbon emissions of US cities
FootprintWire 11.10.12

11-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Tour Brighton’s sustainable homes as part of Eco Open Houses, 25 - 28th October
FootprintWire 10.10.12

10-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Architype’s Peckham charity headquarters scheme looks unlikely to go ahead
FootprintWire 09.10.12

9-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Oxford scientists produce low cost PV film which can be incorporated into glass building facades
RSAW launches low energy home contest

8-Oct-2012
[Submission deadline: 12 November] The Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW) has launched a competition inviting low energy designs for unused and derelict terraced houses in Wales.
FootprintWire 08.10.12

8-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Britain urged to ban import of ash trees, as disease spreads across Europe.
FootprintWire 05.10.12

5-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: JRA completes BREEAM Excellent refurb of 199 Bishopsgate
FootprintWire 04.10.12

4-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Trong Nghia Architects win WAF schools category with passive solar school in Vietnam
FootprintWire 03.10.12

3-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: European award for TYIN Tegnestue Architects, designers of this naturally ventilated Co-op Centre
LCA brought to life in timber by RCA students

2-Oct-2012
Out of the Woods exhibition at the V&A
FootprintWire 02.10.12

2-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Wooden geodesic dome produced from locally sourced timber
Reader offer - October 2012

1-Oct-2012
Win one of three copies of In Detail’s Building Simply Two
FootprintWire 01.10.12

1-Oct-2012
Today’s green news: Simon Conder Associates’ passive solar houses in Cornwall
FootprintWire 28.09.12

28-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Homes damaged by flooding may face demolition
Books Received - September 2012

28-Sep-2012
Footprint’s pick of the best green reads
FootprintWire 27.09.12

27-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Anne Romme’s greenhouse boosts biodiversity in Bristol
FootprintWire 26.09.12

26-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: French Canopea House leads the 2012 Solar Decathlon
Footprint Wire 25.09.12

25-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Renewable keyboard designed by French company Orée
Footprint Wire 24.09.12

24-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: New ecological park to provide green lung for Mexico City
FootprintWire 21.9.12

21-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Undercurrent Architects retrofit a Southwark railway arch
Footprint Wire 20.09.12

20-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Sanitov Studios’ Inachus floating home at the London Design Festival
FootprintWire 19.09.12

19-Sep-2012
Chinese bamboo house leads Solar Decathlon
FootprintWire 18.9.12

18-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Chairs by Jean Nouvel with 80% recycled aluminium on display at Paris Design Week
FootprintWire 17.9.12

17-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: London Met students bring ‘Heliomet SunBloc’ to European Solar Decathlon
FootprintWire 14.9.12

14-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: British artist Morag Myerscough’s pop-up Movement Cafe now open in Greenwich
FootprintWire 13.9.12

13-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: John Thompson & Partners win Moscow zero carbon masterplan competition
FootprintWire 12.9.12

12-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Portable solar radio with manual recharge
FootprintWire 11.9.12

11-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Baby Plumen to launch at London Design Festival
FootprintWire 10.9.12

10-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Wayward Plants’ Helsinki Plant Tram
FootprintWire 7.9.12

7-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: latest GreenSkyThinking programme includes green buildings, green roofs, allotmentsand more
FootprintWire 6.9.12

6-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Buro Happold / Kengo Kuma landscape design for Danish museum
FootprintWire 5.9.12

5-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Parisian architects develop adaptable support for growing indoor plants
FootprintWire 4.9.12

4-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: Swiss architects use biomimicry to design greenhouse near Zurich
FootprintWire 3.9.12

3-Sep-2012
Today’s green news: South London architects RDA develop a duo of Passivhaus projects
FootprintWire 31.8.12

31-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: 360° aquaponics at the Venice Biennale
FootprintWire 30.8.12

30-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Reclaimed furniture designer opens studio for London Design Festival
AJ seeks sustainability intern

29-Aug-2012
Apply now for a September start
FootprintWire 29.8.12

29-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Hawaiian architects’ off-grid housing to feature at TED conference
FootprintWire 28.8.12

28-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle: German pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale
FootprintWire 24.8.12

24-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: St James’ Park re-imagined after 2050 energy war
FootprintWire 23.8.12

23-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Korean ‘Louver Haus’ features a full-height manually-operated timber facade
FootprintWire 22.8.12

22-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: China’s rapid coal mine expansion threatens to trigger water crisis
FootprintWire 21.8.12

21-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: ‘Thousand Huts’ announce winner of low-impact hut competition
FootprintWire 20.8.12

20-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Copenhagen neighbourhood to showcase climate adaptation technology
FootprintWire 17.8.12

17-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: UK places 40th in new Ocean Health Index
FootprintWire 16.8.12

16-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Softroom design pop-up Mexican restaurant for Southbank
FootprintWire 15.8.12

15-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Jerry Tate joins students to build a treehouse in Dartmoor
FootprintWire 14.8.12

14-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Article 25 explores reuse options for the Olympic Stadium wrap
Post-Olympics special

13-Aug-2012
Subscribe to the AJ today and receive a complimentary Velodrome monograph
FootprintWire 13.8.12

13-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: construction of Olympic legacy museum underway as China celebrates Beijing 2008
FootprintWire 10.8.12

10-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: solar backpack charges laptop on the go
AJ's Hattie Hartman defies Olympic ban in protest dress

9-Aug-2012
The AJ’s sustainability editor Hattie Hartman has been handed the protest baton from RIBA president Angela Brady by wearing the now-famous dress defying the Olympic marketing ban
FootprintWire 9.8.12

9-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: self-sufficient tropical HQ supports reforestation in Malaysia
FootprintWire 8.8.12

8-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: London design collective Assemble construct temporary theatre from chipboard and pond liner
FootprintWire 7.8.12

7-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: French architects construct housing prototype from corn and wood
FootprintWire 6.8.12

6-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Work commences on Heatherwick’s Laverstock Mill renovation in Hampshire
FootprintWire 3.8.12

3-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Adjaye’s LEED Silver Francis Gregory library opens in Washington DC
University of Sheffield School of Architecture; MSc Sustainable Architecture Studies

3-Aug-2012
Course focus: Collaboration with community groups, building performance simulation, parametric modelling, low impact materials, theory and policy analysis || Design studio: YES || £4830 / £13990 (EU/Overseas)
FootprintWire 2.8.12

2-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Parisian eco-tourist destination due to complete in 2015
Reader offer - August 2012

1-Aug-2012
Three complimentary copies of Lucy Bullivant’s Masterplanning Futures
FootprintWire 1.8.12

1-Aug-2012
Today’s green news: Bartlett student reimagines London’s square mile
Books Received - July 2012

31-Jul-2012
Footprint’s pick of the best green reads
FootprintWire 31.7.12

31-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Google’s new London headquarters achieves LEED Gold
FootprintWire 30.7.12

30-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Recycled cardboard lampshades by Greypants
FootprintWire 27.7.12

27-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Olympic projects now on view in the AJ Buildings Library
'London 2012 puts to bed several myths about green architecture,' AJ sustainability editor Hattie Hartman tells Monocle

26-Jul-2012
‘There is a widespread perception that green buildings are ugly, cost more and are full of wind turbines and PVs. The Olympic Velodrome is the opposite,’ Hartman says during an interview about her book, London 2012: Sustainable Design, on Monocle 24
FootprintWire26.7.12

26-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Rammed earth house proposal generates energy from ‘roof lake’ and micro hydro turbines
FootprintWire25.7.12

25-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Worcester Library achieves BREEAM Outstanding
Olympic park in full bloom

25-Jul-2012
Red hot pokers near the Water Polo Arena
FootprintWire 24.7.12

24-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: a wind-powered oil press
FootprintWire 23.7.12

23-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Green-roofed West Kowloon Terminus to link Hong Kong with China’s high speed rail
One month to go: High Line for London contest deadline soon

23-Jul-2012
[Deadline for entries 14 September] Participants have just one month left to submit schemes to the Mayor of London’s green infrastructure ideas contest inspired by New York’s High Line park
FootprintWire 20.07.12

23-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Conceptual vertical banana farming in Paris
FootprintWire 19.7.12

19-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Photographs of Hungary’s worst toxic spill
FootprintWire 18.7.12

18-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: AA student Yvonne Weng wins Foster’s prize for sustainability and infrastructure
FootprintWire 17.7.12

17-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects’ Yale NUS College in Singapore targets highest Green Mark rating
FootprintWire 16.7.12

16-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Homes with poor energy efficiency are found to consume less energy than predicted
FootprintWire 13.7.12

13-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Nakae Architects’ new house near Kanazawa, Japan uses environmental modeling to reinterpret local vernacular
FootprintWire 12.7.12

12-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Nouvel teams with Patrick Blanc to renovate nineteenth century Spanish brewery
Reader Offer - July 2012

11-Jul-2012
Win one of three complimentary books
FootprintWire 11.7.12

11-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: a ‘growing’ playground structure is introduced to Vienna’s museum quarter
FootprintWire 10.7.12

10-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: John Lin’s new twist on the rural courtyard residence embraces self-sufficiency
AJ Poll: should RIBA have an annual sustainability award?

9-Jul-2012
Vote in the poll
FootprintWire 9.7.12

9-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Remains of existing farmhouse integrated into structure of Bergmeisterwolf’s latest domestic design
FootprintWire 6.7.12

6-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Global photography and sustainability award Prix Pictet announce shortlist on theme of ‘power’.
FootprintWire 5.7.12

5-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Construction of ‘world’s largest solar bridge’ at Blackfriars reaches halfway point
FootprintWire 4.7.12

4-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: MDRDV unveil Dutch city transformation for horticultural expo
Green Sky Thinking - Call for Entries

3-Jul-2012
Open City’s free week-long event is an opportunity to showcase sustainability
FootprintWire 3.7.12

3-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: Japanese architects’ cross-braced cedar house in Osaka
Reader Offer - Discounted BSRIA course 'Introduction to BIM'

2-Jul-2012
25% discount for AJ readers
FootprintWire 2.7.12

2-Jul-2012
Today’s green news: London shop reuses floorboards and scaffold for display shelves
Books Received - June 2012

29-Jun-2012
This month’s new green books
FootprintWire 29.6.12

29-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Congestion-easing Emirates Air Line opens
FootprintWire 28.6.12

28-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Danish firm design hospital extension
FootprintWire 27.6.12

27-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Portuguese architect’s solar-powered cork shelter
Scott Brownrigg's sponsored cycle for Article 25

26-Jun-2012
Staff will ride 45 miles in support of built environment charity this Sunday 1 July
FootprintWire 26.6.12

26-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: IDV Solutions map every earthquake since 1898
FootprintWire 25.6.12

25-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Park Associati’s prefab, mobile restaurant employs lasercut aluminium solar shading
BioRegional at Rio + 20

22-Jun-2012
Simon McWhirter reports
FootprintWire 22.6.12

22-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Easy-maintenance green wall in Barcelona
FootprintWire 21.6.12

21-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Rooftop vegetable garden at new Twitter HQ
FootprintWire 20.6.12

20-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Australian firm complete naturally-ventilated ‘Cloud House’ in Melbourne
FootprintWire 19.6.12

19-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Kengo Kuma Associates’ design facade of planters
Reader Offer - Half-price pass to AECB Conference on June 28/29

18-Jun-2012
Good networking and lots of technical expertise
FootprintWire 18.9.12

18-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Wetlands-inspired ecosanitation system in San Francisco Civic Centre
FootprintWire 15.6.12

15-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: British storm chaser photographs extreme weather events
Reader Offer - Passivhaus seminars with Wolfgang Feist

14-Jun-2012
Three complimentary passes for upcoming sessions in London, Cardiff and Glasgow
FootprintWire 14.6.12

14-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Herzog & de Meuron to design timber children’s hospital in Zurich
FootprintWire 13.6.12

13-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Japanese architects balance black-box and natural light
Stride Treglown Green Week

12-Jun-2012
Today all eight UK offices have turned off all artificial lighting
FootprintWire 12.6.12

12-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: ‘World’s largest solar park’ captured by satellite
Reader Offer - June 2012

11-Jun-2012
Five complimentary copies of ‘Food for the City’
FootprintWire 11.6.12

11-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Project Pressure maps African glaciers
Victoria Thornton on the importance of ‘designed in’ sustainability

8-Jun-2012
Open-City’s Smarter Cities, Smarter Thinking conference takes place June 21/22
FootprintWire 8.6.12

8-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Biorock helps restore coral reefs
FootprintWire 7.6.12

7-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: LAVA to design HQ in bid for UN’s Green Climate Fund
Reader Offer - UK-GBC's Delivering Sustainable Temporary Venues

6-Jun-2012
Win one of five free tickets for this UK-GBC London 2012 Learning Legacy event
FootprintWire 6.6.12

6-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: Infographic comparing carbon footprint by nation and per capita
FootprintWire 01.06.12

1-Jun-2012
Today’s green news: CIWEM launch Environmental Photographer of the Year competition
Books Received - May 2012

31-May-2012
This month’s new green books
FootprintWire 31.5.12

31-May-2012
Today’s green news: Bristol’s Architecture Foundation launches Bristol Retrofit City exhibition
FootprintWire 30.5.12

30-May-2012
Today’s green news: A ‘Supergrid’ of the future could supply energy to the UK from abroad
FootprintWire 29.5.12

29-May-2012
Today’s green news: Town and Country Planning Association proposes transforming Heathrow into a garden city
AJ Retrofit Awards: Deadline 1 June

28-May-2012
Join previous winners Bennetts Associates and 5th Studio by submitting your best retrofit schemes
FootprintWire 28.5.12

28-May-2012
Today’s green news: 56 years’ worth of tornadoes on a map
FootprintWire 25.5.12

25-May-2012
Today’s green news: Scientific American graphic portrays global water usage
FootprintWire 24.5.12

24-May-2012
Today’s green news: NRDC launch ‘killer summer heat’ report, showing projected death toll due to climate change
FootprintWire 23.5.12

23-May-2012
Today’s green news: Architecture Sans Frontières – UK ‘urban green’ receive silver award in RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012 Environmental Awards
Reader Offer: Soft Landings Level 1 - new training course

23-May-2012
25% offer for all AJ readers
FootprintWire 22.5.12

22-May-2012
Today’s green news: Epiphany creates interactive UK Energy Consumption Guide
Reader Offer - May 2012

21-May-2012
Three complimentary copies of my book: London 2012 - Sustainable Design
FootprintWire 21.5.12

21-May-2012
Today’s green news: annular solar eclipse visible from the earth’s northern hemisphere
FootprintWire 18.5.12

18-May-2012
Today’s Green News: Fabrikaat construct new habitats for endangered birds in standard brick wall
FootprintWire 17.5.12

17-May-2012
Today’s green news: Maya Lin raises awareness about the mass extinction of species with interactive map
FootprintWire 14.5.12

14-May-2012
Today’s green news: ‘Carbon-neutral’ chocolate sails to the UK
FootprintWire 11.5.12

11-May-2012
Today’s green news: Chicago warehouse converted into no-waste no-energy food factory
FootprintWire 10.5.12

10-May-2012
Today’s green news: Real time stats by Worldometers show live increase of CO2 emissions
Reader Offer: BioRegional reclamation-led demolition workshop

9-May-2012
Footprint have teamed up with BioRegional to offer readers three complimentary tickets to May 16 workshop in Oxford
FootprintWire 9.5.12

9-May-2012
Today’s green news: ITO maps track car, bike and bus use in London
FootprintWire 8.5.12

8-May-2012
Today’s green news: Norwegian practice stein hamre arkitektkontor design hydraulic power stations
Adaptable Futures launch student competition

4-May-2012
Loughborough University has launched a student ideas contest for proposals looking at structures’ changing roles over time
FootprintWire 4.5.12

4-May-2012
Today’s green news: Time-lapse video of disappearing Alaskan glacier
Architects' Journal seeks Sustainability Intern

3-May-2012
Apply now to gain practical experience as the AJ’s sustainability intern
Reader Offer: Delivering a Sustainable Athletes’ Village

3-May-2012
Win one of the complimentary tickets
FootprintWire 3.5.12

3-May-2012
Today’s green news: Lone Twin’s Boat Project, made out of thousands of wooden objects donated by the public
FootprintWire 2.5.12

2-May-2012
Today’s green news: White Design’s Ynysowen Primary School uses solar panels and visible rain water harvesting as practical learning tools
FootprintWire 1.5.12

1-May-2012
Today’s green news: Visual artist Shawn Reeder’s time-lapse video of Yosemite National Park
FootprintWire 30.4.12

30-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: Video showing the worlds roads, flight paths and shipping routes
Books received - April 2012

30-Apr-2012
This month’s new green books
FootprintWire 27.4.12

28-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: West 8 win competition to restore Seoul’s Yongsan Park
Relaunch: Footprint in Print

26-Apr-2012
A highlight of sustainability articles in this week’s AJ 26.04.12
FootprintWire 26.4.12

25-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: Steven Holl Architects’ designs Virginia Commonwealth University’s new Institute for Contemporary Art
FootprintWire 25.4.12

25-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: Video showing changing thickness of Arctic ice
Reader Offer: GHA Low Carbon Homes For Real

24-Apr-2012
Five complimentary tickets for Footprint readers for Thursday’s seminar
FootprintWire 24.4.12

24-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: DO|SU Studio Architecture design environmentally responsive facade
FootprintWire 23.4.12

23-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: Haugen/Zohar construct ‘Cave for Children’ in Norway using 1.5 tonnes of pre-industrial waste
FootprintWire 20.4.12

20-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: HK Farm launch rooftop urban farm, in Hong Kong
FootprintWire 19.4.12

19-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: Scott Brownrigg to design zero-carbon headquarters for CABI
FootprintWire 18.4.12

18-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: Gray Organschi Architecture’s Storage Barn in Connecticut
FootprintWire 17.4.12

17-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: Greenhouse-grown ‘plant’ chair presented in Milan
FootprintWire 16.4.12

16-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: Interactive map showing population densities
FootprintWire 13.4.12

13-Apr-2012
Today’s green news: Interactive graphic by Unicef, depicting growing populations between 1950 - 2050

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