تاریخ : پنجشنبه 18 اسفند 1390 | 07:10 ب.ظ | نویسنده : م.مهــرابی

Architects Foster + Partners have won a competition to build the world’s first private spaceport in New Mexico
The New Mexico Spaceport Authority Building will be set in the desert and will be used for both commercial and space tourism launches
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space tourism venture will have its headquarters at the site.
Below is a press release from Foster + Partners followed by one from the New Mexico Spaceport Authority:
Press Release
5 September 2007
Foster + Partners to design the world’s first private spaceport


تاریخ : پنجشنبه 18 اسفند 1390 | 07:01 ب.ظ | نویسنده : م.مهــرابی

Michelle Kauffman,
prefab designer extraordinaire, is at it again. Her newest mkLotus
design, a zero-energy prefab home with a long list of green features,
will debut at next week’s West Coast Green
conference in San Francisco with a full-sized showhouse for visitors to
ooh-and-aah at to their hearts’ content. The mkLotus
features a green roof, LED lighting, green building materials, and the
same indoor/outdoor living integration featured in her Glidehouse
and Sunset Breezehouse

