A range of green features included in the conception of Delft City Hall and Train Station enabled Netherlands-based Mecanoo to win the Green GOOD DESIGN Award 2010. The proposed construction will also seek to replace an obtrusive railway viaduct with.
Mecanoo proposes green design for Delft City Hall and Train Station Read More »
My boyhood interest was in aviation. So maybe, it’s a missed career which I am trying to recreate or something.
Gabriel Nderitu, a 42-year-old father of two and an aviation fanatic, has been busy at his compound in Kahawa West for quite some…
Kenyan I.T. specialist assembles an aircraft from scratch Read More »
Over the years, bamboo has evolved as a popular building material for various goods like furniture, autos, architecture etc, thanks to its durability, strength, reliability and eco-friendliness. So, an architect deriving inspiration for a new…
Bamboo inspired skyscraper to offer green living in Tel Aviv Read More »
Dr. Long Que, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University has developed a device called CNF-PZT Cantilever that produces energy continuously without drawing power from any external source. Made from piezoelectric material.
Piezoelectric generators harness wasted energy to power micro devices Read More »
Finding use in junk artist Zac Freeman has created unbelievable portraits from objects he started gathering way back in 1992. Using scrap as a medium of art Zac’s compositions have been assembles from throwaway old buttons, LEGO bricks, keyboard…
Zac Freeman renders amazingly detailed portraits from waste Read More »
In an attempt to encourage eco-friendly living in Qatar, a group of college students have put their heart and soul into a pilot project that has the potential of standing as a model for building eco-friendly living and work spaces in the future. The..
CNA-Q students take up project to encourage green living in Qatar Read More »
A Milano- and Seoul-based group of industrial designers, who work under the brand Ahha Project, is in the business of creating products and services for their eco-conscious clients. Quite regularly, they come up with sustainable projects to influence.
AHHA Project’s biodegradable bag to check waste disposal habits Read More »
A 900-foot deep and 300-acre wide crater left by the former Lavender Pit Mine will be home to a self-sustaining building and will flaunt several living and working areas. Dubbed as Above Below, the proposed structure is another feather in cap of…
Sustainable underground skyscraper to rise from ashes of former pit mine Read More »
Hailed as a technological urban furniture, a self-sufficient climatic comfort generator and what not, the Air Tree – proposed for the Shanghai Expo – created by Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos for the Madrid Pavilion is an experimental prototype…
Self-sufficient climate control generator for Madrid Pavilion Read More »
Italian architect-engineer Gianluca Santosuosso has come up with some really impressive blueprints of an energy-efficient Peruvian house that considers wind as the most important parameter of the entire construction. The base geometry of the house is.
DUNEhouse: Green-roofed Peruvian beach house flaunts natural ventilation Read More »
