So, since I’m such an old school resident of Portland, I’m a little cranky with myself being that I’ve never noticed this project you see above, at Communitecture’s site. Seriously now, there’s just no good excuse.
This beautiful and quirky home’s plans utilizes trapezoids over rectangles and is sustainable to boot. The house, located in Orenco, OR, has locally-harvested oak structural columns plus salvaged materials from nearby barns.
Communitecture is a local (to me) architectural company who specializes in sustainable design that’s beautiful and bright. I’ve seen some of their commercial and multi-housing structures and they’re always very cool – very pdx. …read more

Each year the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) reviews submissions for built green projects and chooses the best of the best as tops for the year.
From AIA; this year’s 10 winners include:

Aldo Leopold Legacy Center (The Kubala Washatko Architects, Inc.) Cedarburg, WI
Cesar Chavez Library (Line and Space, LLC) Tucson, AZ
Discovery Center at South Lake Union (The Miller|Hull Partnership) Seattle, WA
Garthwaite Center for Science and Arts, Cambridge School of Weston (Architerra, Inc.) Boston, MA
Lavin-Bernick Center (VJAA) Minneapolis, MN
Macallen Building Condominiums (Burt Hill with Office dA) Boston, MA
Nueva School Hillside Learning Complex (Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects) San …read more