Heated Architecture Competition Inspires Creative Solutions for Staying Cool
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Every year the P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center in Long Island City hosts a series of summer music concerts called Warm Up. For 10 Saturdays, 5,000 partygoers converge on the museum's 15,000-square-foot courtyard to pump up the jams with their favorite bands.
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Air cooled by ice is just as efficient -- and more environmentally friendly -- than traditional air-conditioning systems. It's also taking pressure of the city's power grid.
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I spend anywhere from three to eight hours every week sweating along with a motley crew of local misfits, shelving, sorting, and hauling ton after ton of written matter in a rowhouse basement in Baltimore. We have no heat nor air conditioning, but still, every week, we come and work. Volunteer night is Wednesday, but many of us also work on the weekends, when we're open to the public. There are times when we're freezing and we have to wear coats and gloves inside, making handling books somewhat tricky; other times, we're all soaked with sweat, since it's 90 degrees out and the basement is thick with bodies. One learns to forget about personal space when working at The Book Thing, since you can scarcely breathe without bumping into someone, and we are all so accustomed to having to scrape by each other that most of us no longer bother to say "excuse me" unless some particularly dramatic brushing occurs.
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After a year of sweltering heat inside Harvard's Bright Center, followed by a year of air conditioning inside the same venue, Lobsters owner Bahar Uttam got his wish this season -- that the tennis be played in the great outdoors.
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As students learn about energy efficiency, their school buildings increasingly practice it
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ORLANDO -- The cavernous convention center, the site of this week's International Builders Show, is lined row after row with slick display booths and polished sales reps peddling retro-style ovens, state-of-the-art foam insulation and a vegetable-oil-based product that plugs leaky ponds.
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By DAVID HUNT  On the banks of Sisters Creek, Jacksonville slows down.  Boats drift, insects buzz. White ibises glide through the sticky Florida heat. "Everything here, 360 degrees, will stay like this forever," said Mark Middlebrook, president of the North Florida Land Trust.
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If you've ever blistered your bare feet on a hot road you know that asphalt absorbs the sun's energy. A Dutch company is now siphoning heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.
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A south-western Chinese city renowned as a &quot;furnace&quot; during the summer has opened up its warren of old air raid shelters to help people beat the heat, state media said on Tuesday.
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Beijingâs National Aquatics Center, under construction for the 2008 Olympics, is unlike any other building in the world: Its structure is modeled on the natural formation of soap bubbles.
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Warm bodies wanted. But that's part of the problem.
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The Climate Computer In 2002, a couple of hardware geeks thrust a crazy, fresh idea on the computing community. Chris Hipp, a co-founder of blade maker RLX, and Wu-chun Feng, then a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, concocted a very powerful cluster with servers based on laptop chips from Transmeta. The cluster failed to outperform similar Xeon-based systems, but it could run in a desert warehouse with no special cooling and with less failures than other Los Alamos boxes protected by very expensive air conditioning systems.â¦
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Volunteers operate shades to help keep the ice cool Thursday at the Men's Skeleton World Cup race at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City. The challenge of keeping the ice cool may grow somewhat during the coming week, with high temperatures forecast to stay in the 40s.
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Architects develop shape-shifting structures that morph in response to changing weather, fluctuating temperatures and differing uses. Imagine a skyscraper that braces itself in gusty winds, or a house that shakes the snow from its roof. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Skyscrapers that power themselves through wind and solar energy collected on their roofs are named in the winning designs in a competition aimed at creating a greener modern city.
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The city announced 10 winners of a $100,000 open design competition "to generate solutions for post-disaster provisional housing." The premise: a Category 3 hurricane, with 38,000 families left homeless.
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As the summer swelters on, skyscrapers and apartments around the city will be cranking up the air conditioning and pushing the city's power grid to the limit.