With a cantilever design that allows it to seemingly float over a waterfall, Fallingwater, the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright house in rural western Pennsylvania, has fascinated visitors ever since it was built in 1934.

Now, a few lucky people may be able to stay overnight on the grounds.

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As the economy took a beating, a number of construction projects were stalled and abandoned. The Boston Globe asked architects to have a look at such sites and come up with new projects that would be feasible, and also help improve the city. One of such buildings is the Filene development in downtown Boston. The structure of the building is up, but it is just a shell full of holes.

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Air travel is a huge source of carbon emissions. Though very little can be done at the moment to reduce emissions, green minded travelers will be able to purchase carbon offsets at the San Francisco airport. The carbon kiosks at the SF airport are the result of a partnership between the city and 3Degrees, an SF based carbon firm.

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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has proposed to construct around 600 houses in the restricted area on the Hussainsagar lake bed and catchment areas, despite court’s orders against putting up permanent structures there.

A housing project, proposed by the Hyderabad corporation, is supposed to come up near Prasads on the Hussainsagar lake area. Last Month Andhra CM, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had instructed the GHMC to build houses for the weaker sections under the JNNURM scheme replacing the slums abutting the lake.

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The VARYAP Meridian Project, which was unveiled in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, recently has been described as Turkey’s “most green” development. A mixed-use, super-development which will house Istanbul’s new financial and business district, the project is located the Atasehir district.

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Designed by Goettsch Partners, this triangular skyscraper has managed to win the design competition held for the new Soochow Securities Headquarters. A credible accolade of the design were the ingenious features that reduce the buildings overall energy requirements. The triangular skyscraper is a 21-storey building that renders 344,400 sq ft of office space and 86,100 sq ft for the stock exchange, meeting rooms, classroom, cafeteria and enough space in the dock to park 400 cars and 800 bikes.

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The lucky man who actually gets to sit in this amazing Treetop Office is the designer itself — Peter Frazier, a custom experience consultant who chiseled out this monumental office amongst the trees above Chuckanut Bay in Bellingham, Washington.

This lofted cube serves as an office and a guest room (who would not want to be his guest) with a green roof atop. And not only does it look stunning, it’s also doing its little deed to protecting the environment as Peter doesn’t need to commute while his office won’t pollute.

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The US Green Building Council has readied its new headquarters and the Council is now seeking LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification. Interestingly, it is the USGBC that has devised the Green Building Rating System and it now remains to be seen how the council will maintain transparency here.

It may be a case where the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) will review the surroundings to evaluate the LEED worthy surroundings. Now considering that the GBCI shares the office with USGBC, we are not very certain of the transparency.

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Sustainable structures that consume very low levels of energy should be a major share of our community structures as they will help meet the energy crisis. Green Architects reveal how such buildings can be part of the everyday system with their Bibliosphere design. Bibliosphere is a globe like design which will together house the City ( all its major offices) and the University.

The Earth Death Star like replication of this structure is no coincidence, as the architects have done it on purpose. As a structure it offers a number of  low-impact and sustainable features.

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Modern houses are becoming more and more eco-friendly and that is because big names like William McDonough and Partners are coming up with paradigms like the Cradle to Cradle design theories. A recent structure in New Orleans developed as a part of the Make it Right initiative also uses the same design theory.

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