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Bruce Townsley gave up his life as a social worker living in a town home in Chicago for a subterranian life in Texas.  pictured above inside his missle silo home, Bruce Townsley’s renovation efforts easly portray a comfortable lifestyle below the surface…. check out Wired to take an armchair tour through the home!

a retail lot was recently constructed in Austin and following guidelines established nearly a decade ago, it was determined the loading docks needed to be covered up to help mitigate the industrial feel…. so they decided to install some pieces of art… not just any pieces, mind you, but solar sunflowers composed of photovoltaic cells.  the energy collected is used to fuel the blue LED lights on the sculptures that light up at night.  excess energy is sent back to the grid to help offset the cost of the installation!

Entangle Bank emerged from the Revision Dallas Competition, where it took third place. designed by Little, the concept seeks to integrate an entire community into one building, practically free from the use of resources available to the rest of the city.  the concept boasts its own power, water and food supplies…. greywater system… communal sky pastures… 20,000 square feet of grain field… school system… bank… living quarters… more and more and more!  ArchDaily summed it up pretty well:

Entangled Bank is a series of complex networks connecting various elements in the community. Similar to how “a natural bank itself is meant to sustain and offer every opportunity for its constituents to succeed”, the same notion can be related to the social landscape of Dallas.  “This project offers the opportunity to develop a network that supports those that flourish…but also rehabilitates those that have withered,” explained the architects.

architecture firm, James D. LaRue, designed this house in Austin, TX.