The World's Tallest Green Building, Quake Rocks the East Coast, and the Winner of our Back to School Contest! - Inhabitat's Week in Green August 25th

    

Dear Inhabitants- We're now entering the last week of August and we can't believe how fast the summer is flying by! This week we were shaken as the East Coast was rocked by a 5.6 earthquake and we brought you several groundbreaking green architecture projects - the world's tallest LEED Platinum building and a $65 billion transcontinental rail tunnel that will connect Siberia to Alaska. We're also looking forward to the launch of the 2011 Architecture and the City Festival next month, so stay tuned as we bring you exclusive coverage of some of the Bay Area's best green buildings. Finally, read on for the winner of our $1,155 Back to School Contest! ANNOUNCING: Our Back to School Contest Winners! After two weeks of competition and over 400 incredible entries, we're excited to announce the winner of our $1,155 Back to School Giveaway! It was a tremendous challenge to narrow down all of your amazing responses down to just one winner, but in the end our grand prize goes to... Natalie B (AKA Ferriz)! Congrats Natalie, and thanks to all of our readers who entered our competition - we hope you have a great green academic year! INHABITAT'S GREEN BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY > THE WEEK IN DESIGN NEWS Russia Approves $65 Billion Siberia-Alaska Rail Tunnel Quake Shakes East Coast From Virginia to New York City Taipei 101 is the World's Tallest LEED Platinum Building! Gigantic Yellow Bunny Made From Local Swedish Materials Millions of Sunflowers Soak Up Nuclear Radiation in Japan Virginia Earthquake Shakes Six Nuclear Power Plants Spaceship-Shaped 1960s Futuro House Lands in Rotterdam Mexico City to Build Green High Line Park in 2012! WIN GREEN STUFF Win an Eco-Friendly Back-to-School Kit Worth $90! Win a Vegan Laptop Tote From Crystalyn Kae! Enter the 3M Couple Speak Video Contest to Win $5,000! GIVEAWAY: Win a $150 Totsy Shopping Spree GREEN DESIGN COMPETITIONS Behance Student Showdown - DEADLINE: Aug 28th JanSport Outdoors Contest - DEADLINE: Aug 31st 2011 Algae Competition - DEADLINE: Sept 11th Spark Pro Design Awards - DEADLINE:  Sept 19th Gau:di Green Architecture Comp - DEADLINE: Oct 1st GREEN DESIGN EVENTS Join us at the 2011 Architecture and the City Festival! Heads up San Francisco Bay Area architecture fans! We're excited to announce that the 2011 Architecture and the City Festival will be kicking off an entire month of incredible events, lectures, and tours this Friday, August 26th with an opening party at 6pm at the San Francisco Design Center. We're looking forward to a fantastic evening of cocktails, food, music, and inspiration - we hope to see you there! ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY FESTIVAL > KIDS STORIES FROM INHABITOTS Sustainable Wooden Rulers for Back to School! Hand-Knit Super Hero Dolls Keep Plastic at Bay WEARABLE STORIES FROM ECOUTERRE A&F, H&M Linked to Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Rie Hosokai Turns Balloons Into Inflatable Couture Thanks for reading everyone - stay cool & see you nextweek! Jill and Mike Your Faithful Inhabitat Editors --  Inhabitat http://www.inhabitat.com Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/inhabitat Your are receiving this email because you opted in to our newsletter Unsubscribe telcomplap@live.com.mx from this list. Our mailing address is: Inhabitat 7 Essex St New York, New York 10002 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2009 Inhabitat All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend Update your profile

17/11 | World-Architects.com

Newsletter #17/11	15. August 2011

Building Review (Photo: James Dow) Linear House, Saltspring Island, Canada - Cheered on by a large, chic crowd gathered from the worlds of design and fashion into Harbourfront Centre, Azure magazine editor Nelda Rodger unveiled her Toronto-based journal's first AZ Awards for excellence in international architecture and design one hot evening a couple of weeks ago. Hundreds of competitors (as individuals or in teams) from around the world had joined the race for the juried prizes since the contest was announced last year. These talented people submitted projects belonging to the several departments of visual imagination celebrated by the awards: landscape, residential and commercial architecture, office and shop interiors, lighting and furniture design, among others. There was a trophy for student work, one for unbuilt schemes and even one for unrealized – perhaps unrealizable – concepts.   more New Profiles   Architects Arch. DI Helena Weber, Dornbirn Architects Shatotto, Dhaka   Architects dplay, New Delhi Landscape Architects vetschpartner Landschaftsarchitekten AG, Zürich   Architects MKPL Architects, Singapore Architects Arya Architects, Ahmedabad   Agenda 2 to 24 August, Universität Liechtenstein Vaduz Einblick - Ausblick, Exhibition more   9 to 28 August, Steindorf / Austria Wonderland - Deadline Today, Exhibition more   18 August, Cambridge Gallery, Ontario The Hylozoic Ground Collaboration, Exhibition Opening more   until 21 August, S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Basel Landschaft und Kunstbauten, Exhibition more   24 August, Museum of Modern Art, New York Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days, Exhibition Opening more   27 August, SFMOMA, San Francisco Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams, Exhibition Opening more   until 10 September, Pinakothek der Moderne, München Donald Judd - A good Chair is a good Chair more   more Lectures, Exhibitions, Events Updated Profiles   Architects Hawkins\Brown, London Architects synn architekten, Wien   Engineers osd - office for structural design, Frankfurt am Main Architects Koh Kitayama + architecture WORKSHOP, Tokyo   Architects Frank la Riviere Architects inc, Tokyo Architects dmp arquitectura, Mexico DF   Jobs Senior Project Architect | Manager Benjamin Haupt Architekten, Beijing more   Architect | Project Manager No Coffee Architects, Mauritius more   EntwurfsarchitektIn Schulz & Schulz Architekten, Leipzig more   Senior Project Architect Draftwerk, Antwerp more   IWC recruits - Secretary for Architectural Office IWC, Brand of Richemont, Schaffhausen more   Medior Architectural Designer KCAP, Rotterdam more   Architect / Designer West Chin Architect, New York more   Mid-Level Urban Designer (Native Mandarin Speaker) AECOM, Shanghai more   Senior Retail Architecture Planning Manager Daniel Swarovski Corporation, Männedorf more   more Jobs Architecture by Numbers Estimated current share of wealthy foreign buyers of private units in Singapore who are Chinese (2007:7%): 19% By René Ammann For any kind of feedback, please contact the editor in charge: Sarah Mai. If you wish to cancel our Newsletter, please click the following link: cancel.     Join us on Facebook     Follow us on Twitter      Media Partners: