Design for World’s First Energy Positive Hotel in the Arctic Circle
https://snohetta.com/projects/366-svart
https://inhabitat.com/snohetta-unveils-designs-for-worlds-first-energy-positive-hotel-in-the-arctic-circle/
Editorial Comment: Snøhetta is doing more and more and more of these ground-breaking projects. Good for them.
Net Zero Energy retrofit for Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, CA
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/07/mynt-systems-inc-cost-effective-net-zero-carbon-retrofit%E2%80%A8/
Disappear Retreat: zero energy, zero waste, zero water microhouse
https://coulson.co/disappear-retreat
https://inhabitat.com/zero-energy-tiny-home-has-a-near-invisible-footprint/
Charenton-Bercy net zero skyscraper by Skidmore Owings and Merrill in Paris
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/03/14/paris-garden-skyscraper-charenton-bercy-som-most-sustainable-buildings-europe/
https://inhabitat.com/soms-net-zero-paris-skyscraper-will-be-one-of-the-most-sustainable-buildings-in-europe/
Architecture at zero competition
http://www.architectureatzero.com
https://inhabitat.com/pyramidal-floating-buildings-envisioned-for-a-self-sustaining-city-on-the-sea/
http://www.architectureatzero.com/2018-winners/
Oslo Airport smart city will be the world’s first energy-positive airport city with the capacity to sell surplus energy to surrounding buildings and communities
https://inhabitat.com/oslos-new-airport-city-could-power-the-entire-surrounding-community/
CORE 9 carbon positive house
https://www.archdaily.com/891537/core-9-beaumont-concepts
http://www.beaumontconcepts.com.au
Canada’s first net positive carbon multi-tenant building
http://www.coragroup.com/project/evolv1/
https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/heres-first-office-building-certified-under-canadas-zero-carbon-building-standard.html
USA’s first passive house plus, retrofit of a brownstone built in 1900’s
http://www.baxtingui.com/project/passive-house-carroll-gardens/
https://www.archdaily.com/892759/brooklyn-passive-house-plus-baxt-ingui-architects
Self-sustaining modular floating city design
http://www.waya.it
Tidal powered net positive energy hotel for Hainan
https://inhabitat.com/this-futuristic-energy-positive-hotel-will-harness-power-from-the-tides/
Babcock Ranch in Florida (near Ft Myers) is pretty impressive.
Love this stuff — showing us how the ideal can be realized. And technology does “trickle down” to more normal types of construction. Thanks gmoke.