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• 100 Big Ideas

  Interior Design Staff, March 19, 2013
  Without further ado or idle chatter, we are ecstatic to bring you 100 outstanding projects and products in design, architecture, art, and everything in between.  More

• Timeline of Green Breakthroughs

  Ian Volner, March 6, 2013
  Green has been a buzzword in the A&D industry for longer than most of us can remember. But when did it all start? What prompted it? View a timeline of the sustainability movement.  More

• Defining Excellence: A Guide to Green Standards

  Sara Pepitone, March 4, 2013
  The most well-known benchmark for sustainability—but perhaps not the most understood—Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized, voluntary program that provides third-party verification of green buildings.  More

• Under the Hill

  Maria Shollenbarger, February 1, 2013
  Denieuwegeneratie, a young Dutch architecture firm, builds an experimental, super-sustainable house just outside Amsterdam.  More

• Video: Behind-the-Scenes with Linnaea Tillett

  Interior Design Staff, February 1, 2013
  The luminous Linnaea Tillett of Tillett Lighting Design transforms public spaces, landscapes, city infrastructures and residential interiors through light.  More

• Solar Power at the Pump

  Staff, January 10, 2013
  Coaxed by a childhood friend to take on his first commercial project, residential architect Kevin Oreck achieved the improbable: a United Oil gas station in Cerritos, California, supplied by Chevron, that’s both good-looking and green.  More

• Ones to Watch: M-Rad

  Ian Volner, January 1, 2013
  How does a designer who’s just 30—who only finished his MArch studies at Los Angeles’ SciArc in 2009, and who launched his own office barely a year ago—already have a global practice with a presence in three cities on two continents?   More

• Ones to Watch: Situ

  Jennifer Krichels Gorsche, January 1, 2013
  Perhaps more than new designs, material innovations are the driving force in today’s outdoor furnishings. Pittsburgh-based company TAKTL was on the forefront of this trend when it launched its first Situ Urban Elements collection.  More

• Crossville: Your Source for Beautiful, Sustainable Porcelain Tile

  Crossville, Inc., December 3, 2012
  Thinking of tile for your next project? You're not alone. Tile's popularity is growing thanks to exciting advancements in design and sustainability. U.S. manufacturer Crossville leads the way with sophisticated product development and 3rd-party certified, green manufacturing processes-for lasting style that's truly sustainable. These products, each containing a minimum 20% recycled content, are great examples.  More

• November 2012 Complete Resources

  Ava Burke, December 1, 2012
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• Sliding Into Sustainability

  Edie Cohen, November 29, 2012
  Joey Shimoda knows workplaces- whether tight and polished or expansive and raw. This space, more than 50,000 square feet in a Los Angeles former warehouse, falls into the latter category. It's an example of the new "young" office paradigm: an open nonhierarchical configuration with an industrial, pet-friendly aesthetic.  More

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