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With the circular Council of Representatives building at the center, Assemblage has attempted to capture a sense of transparency that it hopes will be mirrored in government itself.  <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/iraq-parliament-buildings-design/25803/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div>   <div class="summary_item " data-article="25755"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/york-minster-olive-oil/25755/">Olive oil may save York Minster cathedral</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">January 11, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/york-minster-olive-oil/25755/#comments">4 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/york-minster-olive-oil/25755/pictures">6 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/york-minster-olive-oil/25755/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130116010933im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/york-minster.jpg" title="York Minster (Image: Andy Barrett/Wikipedia)" alt="York Minster (Image: Andy Barrett/Wikipedia)"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> York Minster is one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in Northern Europe and one of the great monuments of medieval architecture. Built in the city of York, UK between 1220 and 1472, it has suffered looting, vandalism, arson and a devastating fire after a lightning strike in 1984. Despite decades of restoration costing millions of pounds, the Minster still faces an implacable enemy, the air itself. In hopes of protecting the Minster from rotting away due to air pollution, Dr. Karen Wilson and Prof. Adam Lee of the Cardiff School of Chemistry, Cardiff University along with researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered that the key to saving the church may lie in olive oil.  <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/york-minster-olive-oil/25755/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="25664"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/seismic-fabric/25664/">Sisma Calce seismic fabric helps hold buildings together during earthquakes</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">January 8, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/seismic-fabric/25664/#comments">3 Comments</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/seismic-fabric/25664/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130116010933im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/seismic-fabric.jpg" title="Sisma Calce being applied to a building exterior" alt="Sisma Calce being applied to a building exterior"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> Changing building codes to ensure that new structures are less vulnerable to earthquakes is all well and good, but what about older buildings? If someone told you that the answer was wallpaper, you’d think they were crazy, but a team from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe, Germany has developed a fabric to reinforce older walls. Marketed as “Sisma Calce,” the low-cost seismic fabric is designed to be plastered on walls to reduce earthquake damage or to at least give survivors a better chance of escape from falling debris.  <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/seismic-fabric/25664/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="25661"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/chicago-cermak-road-greenest-street-america/25661/">America's "greenest street" provides a blueprint for sustainable urban development</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/author/donna-taylor/">Donna Taylor</a></div> <div class="date">January 7, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/chicago-cermak-road-greenest-street-america/25661/#comments">7 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/chicago-cermak-road-greenest-street-america/25661/pictures">7 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/chicago-cermak-road-greenest-street-america/25661/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130116010933im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/cermakroad.jpg" title="The regeneration of Cermak Road includes new sidewalks with permanent wind/solar powered p..." alt="The regeneration of Cermak Road includes new sidewalks with permanent wind/solar powered p..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> A streetscape that includes natural landscaping, bicycle lanes, wind powered lighting, storm water diversion for irrigation, drought-resistant native plants and innovative “smog-eating” concrete has earned Cermak road in Chicago the title of “greenest Street in America” according to the Chicago Department of Transport (CDOT). Opened in October 2012, the first phase two mile stretch is part of the Blue Island/Cermak Sustainable Streetscape project which was introduced in 2009 with the aim of reducing overall energy usage by 42 percent.  <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/chicago-cermak-road-greenest-street-america/25661/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="25659"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/tonys-farm-shipping-container-hotel/25659/">Shanghai farm's shipping container visitor center thinks a little bigger</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/author/james-holloway/">James Holloway</a></div> <div class="date">January 7, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/tonys-farm-shipping-container-hotel/25659/#comments">2 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/tonys-farm-shipping-container-hotel/25659/pictures">5 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/tonys-farm-shipping-container-hotel/25659/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130116010933im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/tonys-farm.jpg" title="The shipping container visitor center at Tony's Farm near Shanghai (Photo: Bartosz Kolonko..." alt="The shipping container visitor center at Tony's Farm near Shanghai (Photo: Bartosz Kolonko..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> With Tony's Farm, international architecture studio Playze has done its bit for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/container/" target="_blank">recycled-shipping-container-as-architecture</a> movement. The organic farm's new building is toward the more ambitious end of the scale, incorporating numerous recycled containers, cut up and configured to create remarkably light, open interiors.  <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/tonys-farm-shipping-container-hotel/25659/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="25568"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/gensler-pnc-breathing-building-pittsburgh/25568/">Pittsburgh's "breathing" building aims to be the world's greenest skyscraper</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/author/donna-taylor/">Donna Taylor</a></div> <div class="date">January 1, 2013</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/gensler-pnc-breathing-building-pittsburgh/25568/#comments">5 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/gensler-pnc-breathing-building-pittsburgh/25568/pictures">15 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/gensler-pnc-breathing-building-pittsburgh/25568/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130116010933im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/pnctower.jpg" title="The challenge for the designers is for staff to feel like they are sitting on a park bench..." alt="The challenge for the designers is for staff to feel like they are sitting on a park bench..."/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> The PNC Financial Services Group hopes to exceed LEED Platinum requirements along with promoting a healthy indoor workplace with its latest development – the Tower at PNC Plaza. Located in downtown Pittsburgh on the corner of Fifth and Wood Streets, the building will be approximately 800,00 gross sq.ft (74,322 sq.mt) in size with a construction budget of approximately US$240 million. The "breathing" design created by architecture firm Gensler moves away from the traditional closed air-conditioned environment and has the lofty aim of becoming the greenest skyscraper in the world.  <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/gensler-pnc-breathing-building-pittsburgh/25568/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item " data-article="25546"> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/biological-concrete/25546/">“Biological concrete” promotes vertical gardens</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <div>By <a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/">David Szondy</a></div> <div class="date">December 24, 2012</div> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <div class="has_comments"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/biological-concrete/25546/#comments">7 Comments</a></div> <div class="has_pictures"><a href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/biological-concrete/25546/pictures">3 Pictures</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a class="noback hero_link" href="/web/20130116010933/http://www.gizmag.com/biological-concrete/25546/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130116010933im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/biological-concrete.jpg" title="Biological concrete panels" alt="Biological concrete panels"/></a> <div class="summary"> <p> An ivy covered building is a lovely thing, but ivy roots can rip into brickwork and the vines are a highway for vermin looking for a way inside. Modern vertical gardens try for the same aesthetic effect with some added environmental advantages, but they’re often complicated things full of hydroponics gear and difficult to maintain. 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