That is what building out of wood and natural materials essentially is: Carbon, water and sunlight. Bruce King has written a new book, coming out in the fall, called The New Carbon Architecture ...

The afternoon sunlight reflects off buildings Monday, March 20, 2023, creating interesting designs around downtown Allentown.

It’s a necessary evil of designing in cities: Only the tallest or most perfectly situated buildings get much sunlight. A company called Sun Central thinks it has a solution—in the form of an ...

Not long after Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall opened in Los Angeles in 2003, people began to complain that the sunlight reflecting off the building’s shiny exterior was making the ...

The array will collect the sunlight to provide electricity to the installation's homes, building... Tapping the sun: Building resilience by going solar By Ms. Bonnie Robinson (ATEC) August 10, 2015 ...

Those methods include orienting buildings away from the sun, building in accordance with wind patterns to increase natural ventilation, minimizing the use of glass, and incorporating traditional ...

This seems like a logical way to approach the problem, but it isn't. The Sun is not in the same 2-D plane as this slice. This means that I can't use the same 2-D ideas and just add them up to make ...

So when new buildings on 57th Street were being built, some New Yorkers were worried that they would block out the sun in parts of the park. These worries aren’t unwarranted.

The building, after all, is orientated to the southwest, so patients could receive a blast of afternoon sunlight through the oversized windows and cantilevered balconies. “As a tuberculosis hospital, ...