Posts Tagged ‘Sustainable’

Papernomad™ Wins International Design Award

by DD, March 23rd, 2012, viewed 587 time(s)
Posted in Green, Packaging, Product

Vienna, 14. March 2012 – Papernomad™ receives the prestigious Red Dot Design Award: a recognition of their products to be among the best of the design industry worldwide. Read More »

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture to Design World’s 4th Tallest Building

by DD, September 16th, 2011, viewed 1789 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

Chicago-based firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture recently announced that it has won an international competition to design Wuhan Greenland Center, which at 606 meters (1,988 feet) will likely be China’s third-tallest building, and the fourth tallest in the world, when completed in about five years. Read More »

Spiraling Superfuturistic Newport Station in Wales

by DD, February 23rd, 2011, viewed 1029 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Green

Newport, Wales is cut in two by its rail line, and its old train station was seriously in need of an upgrade. The city and Network Rail decided to renovate the system for the Ryder Cup in October 2010, thus improving their rail service and providing an improved connection between the disparate sides of the city. Read More »

Neo Solar Power Corporation by J. J. Pan & Partners

by DD, January 27th, 2011, viewed 960 time(s)
Posted in Architecture

The façade of the Neo Solar Power Corporation project by J. J. Pan & Partners, Architects & Planners (JJPP) takes up the metaphor of transferring light energy to electric power with solar panels to achieve a uniqueness of the contour. Read More »

Chicago Solar Tower by Zoka Zola Architecture

by DD, January 27th, 2011, viewed 1182 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Green

The proposed Solar Tower for Chicago by Zoka Zola Architects features an active solar array mounted to the façade which maximizes solar gain throughout the day. Read More »

Spiraling Wind Tower Produces Energy for 2000 Homes

by DD, January 26th, 2011, viewed 1005 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Green

The Wind Tower is a spiraling mega-structure designed by British architects David Arnold and Alexa Ratzlaff as a twisted steel and concrete diagrid aerodynamically shaped to take advantage of the prevailing wind currents. Read More »

Masdar Institute campus by Foster + Partners

by DD, November 27th, 2010, viewed 2784 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Foster + Partners, Green

Foster + Partners have completed the first of a cluster of buildings entirely powered by solar energy at Masdar City, a sustainable urban quarter in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Read More »

First Project of Foster + Partners in Vietnam

by DD, October 31st, 2010, viewed 1587 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Foster + Partners, Green

The first project in Vietnam for British practice Foster + Partners, the VietinBank Business Centre in Hanoi, has broken ground with a big ceremony last Friday. Read More »

Sustainable Marine Research Center Studies Tsunamis

by DD, October 19th, 2010, viewed 1239 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Green

While this incredible Marine Research Center’s may appear quite futuristic in form, the design was actually inspired by the structure of an ensuing tsunami wave. Read More »

Bamboo Shelter by Esan Rahmani + Mukul Damle

by DD, September 23rd, 2010, viewed 1864 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Green

Australian designer Esan Rahmani in collaboration with Mukul Damle have designed “Bamboo Pavillion”, a synthesis of sustainable ideas for a communal shelter for the disadvantaged around the Indian Ocean Rim. Read More »

Plumen 001 by Hulger

by DD, September 19th, 2010, viewed 1047 time(s)
Posted in Green, Product

London design brand Hulger has launched Plumen, a product it describes as “the world’s first designer low-energy light bulb”. Read More »

Campus Center in Miami

by DD, September 18th, 2010, viewed 980 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Green

The dramatic design set forth for Campus Center is visually daring and bold; yet upon further introspection, inherently elemental and concise in its organization of the complex programmatic mix. Read More »

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