It seems like prefab materials are the latest trend and after Rocio Romero’s LV Prefab Home, it’s Andrade Morettin’s turn to design an interesting house made of prefab materials. The architect build his Residencia RR in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the middle of the dense vegetation where the humid climate is very “aggressive”.

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As soon as it was revealed, Napa Prefab has managed to receive praises from everyone. This concept was designed by Rocio Romero and first was shown to the US public in Missouri and about a couple of months ago in Hudson Valley, New York. Now you can visit it on the West Coast, in northern San Francisco.

Rocio Romero is known for his extraordinary LV Home Series and the LV Prefab Home doesn’t make an exception. This fantastic house gives you 3,000 square feet of space in which you will find four bedrooms and 3 bathrooms among others. Also, LV Prefab Home features a pool warmed by the sun, but we are impressed by the idea of building it from prefabricated materials and by its very low pricing.

It seems like we need a special reason to construct some cool buildings. In this case the demographic growth was the one that forced the Copenhagen authorities to build a new college for students. A new college was build in Ørestad City and it provides spaces for studying science, social science and human science.

The stories of the college are boomerang-shaped and the interior was designed to be flexible in order to create spaces that will help small groups to rearrange however they want to. This is a very important project for education because this is a priority. I’m out of words and I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

Kazakhstan is establishing as a country with the most impressive architectural designs. Its capital, Astana, is the home of two astonishing buildings - the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, and the Khan Shatyry Entertainment Center. Now, the financial capital and largest city called Almaty will feature a design signed by Sir Norman Foster, a renowned British architect.

The structure will consist of two towers and will be called Almaty Financial District Fosters Towers and will feature 48-stories. The twin towers will be completed in 2009 and with their 709 feet, will be the tallest buildings in Kazakhstan. Almaty Financial District Fosters Tower will provide space for offices, residential apartments and retail on lower stories.

The facades of the towers will be covered in glass and at the top of the tower you will find gardens destined as a relaxation space. For the moment there aren’t many information about the towers, but reports say that the Almaty Towers will be environmental friendly. Until the completion of the structure, you should check out the gallery below.

New York is one of the world’s city with the most impressive architectural designs and also their latest design is environmental friendly. The under-construction green building was designed by Neil M. Denari Architects and it’s located in West side Manhattan in the Chelsea art gallery district.

The green structure will be called High Line 23 and it will feature 14-stories of gallery space, residences and penthouse at the top floor. The uncanny design of the building has made its architects to “chase” the LEED Gold certification for HL23. The green part consists of natural ventilation, low VOC interior materials, energy efficiency, natural illumination, water preserved fixtures and we should praise the recycled materials that will help to the construction.

The High Line 23 will have a total space of 39,000 square feet, it will cost about $22 million and is scheduled for completion in the last quarter of 2009.

London is the home of a structure with an astonishing design which is called Palestra. This building was developed by Alsop Architects and $120 million were necessary to finish the construction. At the beginning, the Palestra was destined to be the home of multiple companies but in the end only two settled there - the London Development Agency and the London Climate Change Agency.

The construction was finished in 2006 but six weeks after the unveiling, one of its component crashed and the wind turbines that were powering the building stopped working properly. The wind turbines are scheduled for replacement in the coming weeks and the designers are looking to implement fuel cell technology in order to power the entire building with renewable energy. I don’t know about you but I fell in love with this glass structure and you might do the same if you check out the gallery below.

Via EcoFuss