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Best of #ModernMonday: Latest Breakthroughs in Solar Power

Every Monday, @dwell and @designmilk invite fans and experts on Twitter to weigh in on trending topics in design.

For this week's installment of #ModernMonday, Minh Le of the Energy Department's SunShot Initiative joined Shaun Chapman, vice president at SolarCity, to discuss high-tech advances in solar energy. Check out a few of our favorite responses, and use the hashtag #ModernMonday to join the conversation next week at 1pm EST / 10am PST.

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The building is wrapped in a skin of silvery grey western red cedar. There are no windows visible from the street. The front door is a simple, sliding panel of fiberglass sheeting.
The building is wrapped in a skin of silvery grey western red cedar. There are no windows visible from the street. The front door is a simple, sliding panel of fiberglass sheeting.
In Scarpa and Brook' own house, they’ve mounted luminous solar panels in a rusted-steel-beam grid to form a modernist canopy that frames the façade. This imaginative “solar umbrella” hides the household power plant in plain sight, part of an artful composition that includes a hanging screen tied with bristles of industrial brooms. Photo by Marvin Rand.
In Scarpa and Brook' own house, they’ve mounted luminous solar panels in a rusted-steel-beam grid to form a modernist canopy that frames the façade. This imaginative “solar umbrella” hides the household power plant in plain sight, part of an artful composition that includes a hanging screen tied with bristles of industrial brooms. Photo by Marvin Rand.
The Damianos’ house, located in Denver’s Highland neighborhood, runs completely on solar energy.
The Damianos’ house, located in Denver’s Highland neighborhood, runs completely on solar energy.
Arranged and slotted together like a tidy row of Legos, the IJsselstein housing project reflects typical Dutch efficiency, “not just in terms of materials used,” notes architect Gregory Kiss, “but in terms of space as well.”
Arranged and slotted together like a tidy row of Legos, the IJsselstein housing project reflects typical Dutch efficiency, “not just in terms of materials used,” notes architect Gregory Kiss, “but in terms of space as well.”
Eko Dom Piotra Kuczi k. Pszczyny 05.04.2007 Tomasz Pikula
Eko Dom Piotra Kuczi k. Pszczyny 05.04.2007 Tomasz Pikula