Intelligent building façade

Homeostatic façade system (source: www.fastcodesign.com)

The homeostatic façade system is a very nice example of an intelligent building façade system to control the solar gains in a building (still a prototype), based on the principle of dielectric elastomers. But it is not clear to me if the material of which this prototype is made is so sustainable.

Wildlife bridge or ecoduct

Source: www.weertfm.nl

In one of its items, Webecoist mentions the design of a green wildlife bridge to help wildlife savely crossing a highway that passes through a national park in Colorado.
In the province of Limburg, Belgium they have already since 5 years such a wildlife crossing, the ecoduct Kikbeek. That this bridge is very useful for animals to pass the highway, is shown with these images by night made by TVLimburg of wildlife crossing the ecoduct.
Also in the Netherlands, several examples of wildlife bridges can be found.

Daylight

In all the attention paid to energy efficiency and rational use of energy in buildings, the focus on the benefits of daylight is still limited. The Dutch organisation Stichting Living Daylights promotes the application of daylight in the built environment with a wide range of information on daylight, daylight experts, good examples of daylight application in buildings and the yearly Daylight Award. The website is in Dutch, but some of the publications are in English.

Biomimetic design

10 nice examples of biomimetic design inspired by insects collected by Webecoist, but biomimetic is not necessarily sustainable.

Home renovation with highest LEED score ever

source: Inhabitat

In Chicago a home has been thoroughly renovated and earned the highest LEED score ever. A reportage by Inhabitat.

Interview with architect Steven Holl

Inhabitat interviewed architect Steven Holl on the importance of sustainability in his architectural design.

Interview with architect and C2C author William McDonough

Inhabitat did an interview with the green architect and founder and co-author of Cradle to cradle William McDonough on his approach to sustainable design.