Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Volvo , Detroit Auto Show Anyone in the U.S. who’s been looking longingly at the Volvo ‘s diesel-electric V60 plug-in hybrid – which is only scheduled to go on sale in Europe, starting sometime later this year – take hope: the Swedish automaker has taken the digital wraps off of the new XC60 Plug-in Hybrid Concept, and is dropping all sorts of hints that it’s coming to America.
In 2006, Gilberto Kassab, mayor of?S?o Paulo, Brazil, passed the “Clean City Law.” Citing growing concerns about rampant pollution in his city, Kassab decided enough was enough. But this was no ordinary piece of pollution legislation.
Read more about the push to turn overpasses into Main Streets. Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy Photo via ( cc ) Flickr user HarshLight Drawing of London Bridge, 1682 Photo courtesy of the London Topographical Society Kr?merbr?cke in Erfurt, Germany Photo via Wikimedia Commons user TomKidd Raymond Hood, “Proposal for Manhattan,” 1950, “Skyscraper Bridges,” 1929 Photo courtesy of skyscraper.org The Cap at Union Station in Columbus, Ohio. Photos courtesy of Meleca Architecture Rendering of Jebel Al Jais Mountain Resort in the United Arab Emirates
Architecture and design critics in New York and Toronto ride and riff on bikes in their burgs. Readers are not amused
by David Holmes. For a city widely seen as a haven for progressive thought, New York has put up surprisingly stiff resistance to helping cyclists get where they’re going in one piece
Photo: B. Alter The marathon of talks about every aspect of gardens lasted for two days.
Photo: riba The Velodrome , the jewel of London’s 2012 Olympic buildings, did not win the gold in the architecture Olympics. Aka the RIBA Stirling Prize , it’s the big architecture prize in the UK. Instead Zaha Hadid won, but not for her 2012 Olympic buildin…
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Image credit: The Architecture Foundation /Midtown Buzz From Omlet’s trendy Beehaus urban hive , to more traditional alternatives like top-bar and Warré hives , every now and then we see alternatives to the conventional beehives used by most professionals and hobbyists. Now a new competition is aiming to reignite the search for alternative hive designs..
Photos: Toshihiro Sobajima for Atelier Tekuto Earth building is unusual in Japan, a nation better-known for its high-tech and ultra-modern architecture. That’s why this single-storey earth-brick residence in Chiba, Japan by Atelier Tekuto is so striking: not only does its curves differentiate it from the cookie-cutter linearity of its neighbours, but its slick interiors are a departur..