Green roofs are nice. They're a nice concept. They make us feel nice. And they are usually hidden up on a- you guessed it- roof. The Nanyang Technological University's School of Art, Design, and ...
To move forward is to acknowledge the mistakes of the past. The Skin Collection by Studio Pepe Heykoop is a collection of furnitures reacting to the excessive waste produced by the industry. 25-30% ...
Draped Membranes | Tingwei Xu and Xie Zhang
As sea levels rise globally, port cities everywhere face real challenges to their continued existences. It is a real shame that the oil and industry ...
Escama Studios merges "humble" materials with traditional design. Their products are conceived by designers in America and Brazil and created by members of a Brazilian cooperative. This unique ...
Grass Covered Home by Weichlbauer Ortis Architect
Here is another good example of a Sustainable and Environmentally friendly home with attractive architecture designed by Reinhold Weichlbauer and ...
Upon first seeing UNStudio’s proposal for the ENI Foundation Headquarters, it reminded me of crop circles. When I say crop circles I don’t mean the elaborate designs we see in fields today by people ...
Sustainability is as much economy as it is ecology. An object's imbedded energy speaks to how much energy was expended to produce said object. It is a major element to how 'green' or sustainable ...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center | Weiss/Manfredi
Green roofs are great, aren't they? They serve to in one fell swoop, alleviate concerns about the green-ness of a building. I mean just throw ...
Sanya Block 5 by NL Architects
Located in Sanya, China- the winning proposal for Sanya Block 5 by NL Architects is something which seeks to do something a little different with the typology of ...
All humans (with maybe the exception of clear-cutters and some McDonald's executives) bemoan the cutting down of the rainforests and the overall disappearing of green everywhere. Collaborative ...
Ecorium of the National Ecological Institute, So far, it could be asserted that 'green' has been something which a building incorporates, not so much what a building is. You know what I mean- being ...
Aesthetically clean and intellectually stimulating, the revolutionary lighting concept created by compMatter-TA, titled RE-LUXOED is what the designer describes as possessing of a diurnal mentality, ...