Austrian architect Hans Hollein has recently completed the design of a high-rise office tower for Shenzhen, China. Located adjacent to the Town Hall and Shen Nan Avenue, the “SBF Tower” has a strategic position within the texture of the city. The.
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During his routine forages along the marshes, under bridges, and banks of the Cape Fear River, Shaw Lakey keeps collecting pieces of driftwood to transform them into some amazing sculptures. In his garage studio, the Carolina Beach artist works on…
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Embracing sustainable design and renewable energy technologies Strata SE1 constructed by BFLS has become the first building in the world to have integrated wind turbines. Located in one of the Mayor of London’s Energy Action Areas, the 148m high…
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American-born, Italy-based artist Robert Mitchell Dawson has re-designed the interiors of a 14th century palazzo in Rome with a distinctly green tinge. The artist collected discarded indestructible material (PVC, plastic, Styrofoam, etc) from major…
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Studio Weave has recently added another attraction to Littlehampton’s award-winning Blue Flag beach. The designers have installed Britain’s longest bench that seats over 300 people. The meandering 324 meter-long bench is made using thousands of…
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The ancient port city of Jaffa recently saw the installation of a new tidal energy plant in its historical harbor. The plant built by Israeli tidal wave energy firm S.D.E. is its first large scale sea wave power plant that can produce 60 KWh of…
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As the focus on sustainability, environmental safety and renewability has gorged beyond measures in the past decades, scientists have come up with some commendable research to conceive eco-benign solutions to the present energy crunch. Accordingly,…
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New York City-based outfit NAMELESS has won the design award for 2010 BSA Un built Architecture Awards for their art pavilion, Play cloud. The sustainable pavilion has been specifically designed for Governors Island, situated around 800 yards away from.
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The Austin-Smith: Lord team, which includes JMP Transport Engineers, Curtins Structural Engineers and Hilson Moran on Environmental and M&E, has come up with a proposal of developing a sustainably green bus station for Stoke-on-Trent city. The bus…
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Most of us will agree with the age-old saying that “patience is a virtue.” How many of you, however, would actually hang on for two years and a half to bring a piece of art into existence? Dalton Ghetti, 49, a Bridgeport artist, has spent 25 good.
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