The Chain of Eco-Homes Competition

The Chain of Eco-Homes Competition is an architecture competition to build a eco-friendly and sustainable home in the city of Greensburg, Kansas. Greensburg was literally wiped off the face of the map after a tornado ripped through the town in 2007. The city has chosen to rebuild the city using eco-friendly and sustainable methods.

The Architect submitted a competition entry last week - he is competition entry number 061 - "Linear Villa." In addition to a jury reviewing the projects and picking the winner, the competition is allowing the public to cast their own vote for their favorite projects.

Check out all the projects here and be sure to vote for your favorite - No. 061!

P.S. - The projects are not listed in numerical order.

Urban Revision Dallas Winners

Well the kids at Urban Revision have announced the winners of the competition to design a sustainable mixed use development in Downtown Dallas. I am a bit underwhelmed and extremely disappointed that no Dallas firms or architects made the cut. The designs seem a bit over the top and I can't really see them being executed in our city.

You can check out the finalists and form your own opinions here.

If you want my unedited opinion, you are going to have to buy me a bottle of wine, to find out.

The i-house

Apparently to be cool and modern when launching a new product you must put "i-" in front of your product. As annoying as that is, there are some interesting design ideas from Clayton Homes' new modern pre-fab homes. Clayton Homes is backed by financier Warren Buffett. Their schtick is that they can build a modern green pre-fab home for under $100,000.00.

Check out the website, take a tour of the homes, and create your own home here.

BTW, kudos to the Syracuse Airport for having free wi-fi. Now you only need a Starbucks and somewhere where I can buy a magazine . Or you could have at least posted a sign before security saying there was no amenities at the gates except for two vending machines. Yeah, I'm not bitter about wasting a week in upstate NY at all.

More on Dallas' Re:Vision

Dallas Observer's Unfair Park blog has an excerpt of an interview with Stacey Frost, one of the people behind Re:Vision and their purpose of the project in Dallas. Check it out here.

See the complete interview at Treehugger here.