Owing to the enormous pollution we have in the cities today, all urbanites are forced to breathe air, which by no means is safe. So, in such a scenario “Purifan” looks like a tempting option to makes air safe for breathing. Designed to replace…
Purifan air purifying ceiling fan encloses blade for safety Read More »
Its’ time to give a boot to battery powered bicycle lighting systems with the coming of Klasp. Designer Zach Adams has designed a kinetically powered small device to power your bicycle’s lighting system. Made form REN composites and loaded with…
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The US state of Ohio is reaping vast benefits from the largest solar farm facility in the state with the establishment of the PSEG Wyandot Solar Farm in the Wyandot County Airport in Upper Sandusky. The solar farm spread over 80 acres of county-owned…
Ohio’s largest solar farm generates 12 MW of electricity Read More »
Luzinterruptus is a creative bunch of Spanish artists who love to question our receptivity to some apparently natural phenomena. While sometimes they offer us a retreat from relentless traffic (Literature versus Traffic), they create an army of UFOs..
Urban Nest: Iridescent art installation by Luzinterruptus Read More »
A teams of students at the Canara Engineering College, in India, has developed a tribrid (uses two or more distinct power sources) scooter. The V-Spark 3 scooter relies on solar panels, electric motors and conventional gasoline as well. The onboard…
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A family living in Mesa, Arizona has found a brilliant green way to feed itself and live more self-sufficiently. What these environmentalists have done is they have concerted an old unused backyard swimming pool into a very productive DIY urban…
Food grown in a swimming pool feeds an Arizonian family Read More »
Cargo is what the Swiss architecture firm Group8 calls its new office that combines two of the biggest cliches in contemporary architecture – shipping containers and stark white offices. Built in collaboration with the furniture manufacturer…
Obsolete Shipping containers fill color into stark white office Read More »
Kuokkala Square, the focal point of Jyväskylä’s Kuokkala district is where the new mesmerizing church stands. Designed and built by Finnish architects Anssi Lassila and Teemu Hirvilammi of Lassila Hirvilammi with Jani Jansson of Luonti, the…
Slate-clad wooden Kuokkala Church ushers visitors through granite stairway Read More »
On the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, in Boston, you could see a huge, 33-foot-long hammock (264 square feet area) swinging to gratify the bystanders. Hansy Better Barazza, a Roslindale architect and professor at Rhode Island School of Design,…
Boston artist utilizes recycled plastic bottles to create world’s largest hammock Read More »
Bikes running on road is an all too common sight. But the eco-friendly modes of transportation adorning a shop’s front wall is something that I have never seen before. One such bike superstore in the German city Altlandsberg features several of…
Unusual bike shop features bicycle-bedecked façade Read More »
