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I actually had this one from my previous building of the week back in 2009 but wanted to share this with you again since it is sustainable...and quite nice :)

"While architecture magazines are saturated with images of soaring, wriggling towers and pristine, jewel-like structures, those buildings represent a small fraction of actual construction. Most of us live, work, and play in very conventional buildings—traditional wood-frame houses, steel-and-brick high-rises, concrete-and-glass shopping malls. And for much of the world’s population, the comforts of home—not to mention work and recreational facilities—are critically lacking. Governments around the globe are increasingly looking to architects to address the housing and infrastructure needs of impoverished communities, in the process hoping to improve the grim economic, educational, and security conditions that plague them. The resulting structures are almost always the antithesis of those complex, computer-driven designs that typically grace these pages. Because of limited financial resources, these projects rely on a low-tech approach using simple forms; local, unskilled labor; unusual or recycled materials; and alternative construction methods."

to read and view more images, go to this link below;

http://continuingeducation.construction.com/article.php?L=5&C=456&P=1