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As we continue to explore the designs from the USGBC’s Natural Green Building Competition, we introduce Abe Jayson & Levi Hyland who have taken 4th place. This team has created a highly energy efficient design for the Alliance Center. Continue Reading »

In second place at the United States Green Building Council’s Natural Building Competition, CU Architecture and Planning Students Michele Williams and Tina Alberico integrate design and technology to achieve 63 of the 69 LEED Credits. Continue Reading »

For the third year in a row, College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) students at the University of Colorado Denver have won four of the top five awards in the United States Green Building Council’s Natural Building Competition for the Western Region. The winning teams will have the opportunity to compete at the national level at the Green Build 2008 International Conference and Expo in November in Boston. Continue Reading »

Unexpected shapes, unusual materials, surprising splashes of color – it’s the little things that make a house an architect’s home.

Working with Historic Boulder, Boulderspace brings you a glimpse from the 2008 Landmarks of the Future Tour: Architects at Home. Through this series we will be featuring contemporary homes from six of our local architects. Each house demonstrates the designer’s singular approach to solving the challenges of contemporary residential living and suggests that the definition of a landmark has nothing to do with age, since all of the homes were completed in the last 14 years. These homes illustrate the livability and creativity of contemporary design and how it contributes to the cultural fabric of the community. The architects living in these homes embrace the enduring tradition of innovation in Boulder. We will kick off our virtual tour with the home of Fenno Hoffman at 505 Genva Avenue. Continue Reading »

REAL Housing is an Israeli company committed to the development of affordable housing using renewable energy to power a sustainable future. Their house designs are based on modular and prefabricated construction, using recycled shipping containers to form the spine of each structure. Their building solutions are based on decades of experience in both the construction industry and the building energy research community. Two of the founders are affiliated with the University of Colorado and many of the innovations grew from their experiences with the Solar Decathlon, an international competition to design and build small solar-powered homes. Continue Reading »

Advances in training techniques, pool design and swimsuit technology have all contributed to the record breaking times being awarded at the Beijing Olympic Swimming Water Cube. With 8 world records broken in this facility, Jason Lezak not only won the gold medal for the United States, but the US has also shattered the world records by nearly four seconds. What can be contributed to the overall performance of this years Olympians?

Made from Speedo’s own LZR Pulse material, the LZR Racer is the world’s lightest woven swim fabric, contributing to it’s reputation as the fastest suite on the market. It is said that the LZR Racer can boost performance as much as 2%. According to Joseph Ogando, Senior Editor of Design News, “The LZR Racer came out of a development program that seemingly has more in common with aerospace engineering than swim wear design”. Continue Reading »

As MO.Free (MObile Freedom) continues to flourish, Special Transit (ST) is excited to unwrap some of it’s continued ideas. Biodiesel, solar power generators, LED lights, recycled and sustainable interior furnishings and decor are some of the products being incorporated into the mobile space. Staying true to its community-centric approach, ST is looking for partners to create this mobile resource that can be used by Boulder citizens and it’s affiliate groups. Below are some ways in which you can take part and support the development of Boulder’s meeting space “MO.Free”.

MO.Free Vision: To model how collaboration of non profit, public, and for profit groups can create mobile community meeting space by recycling a retired HOP bus to optimize social and community benefits. Continue Reading »

Boulderspace brings you the results from Project OR at the Outdoor Retailer 2008 - a student design competition that exhibits the strength of the outdoor industry and calls attention to the importance of innovation and new fabrication. This year they called upon 5 students from design schools throughout the country to participate in a 48 hour challenge. Each student was given a different consumer profile to full fill their needs in apparel through product design, using materials provided by textile vendors throughout the show. Continue Reading »