by Lisa Van Liefde | Dec 16, 2014 | Architectural Stone, Historical Places
A great example of Chateau Architecture can be found at the Biltmore mansion. Commissioned by an heir of the Vanderbilt family around 1889, the astonishing 178,000-square-foot house with 250 rooms, situated near Asheville, North Carolina, is the largest private...
by Lisa Van Liefde | Dec 2, 2014 | Green-Sustainable
In the Netherlands, a pilot project is investigating utilizing solar cells on roads for producing solar energy. Roads provide an extremely large surface to work with and may become a valuable way to capture energy. SolaRoad is the brainchild of the Dutch company TNO,...