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At this years Milan Design Week Tom Dixon joined forces with Digital Forming Studio to create a Co-Design Bar where visitors could customize their own lamps! The exhibit emphasized the manufacturing [...] Read »

Read the rest of Perspectives by Belgium is Design Offers a Refreshing Take on Sustainability in Milan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Alain Gilles, belgian design, Belgium [...] Read »

Taking advantage of the renewable and biodegradable attributes of coffee, Spanish designer Raúl Laurí created an innovative, experimental and very cute lamp. Dubbed the Decafé Lamp, it is [...] Read »

Read the rest of Tom Dixons Sensational Flat-Pack Stamp Lamp Comes Hot Off the Press Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3D computer programming deisgn, co-design bar, digital forming [...] Read »

The world’s largest solar thermal plant recently opened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The new plant is almost double the size of what was previously the largest solar thermal facility (located in [...] Read »

Looking for a neat way to celebrate Earth Day with your family this year? Get your kids excited about honoring the Earth with one (or several) Earth Day activities. From planting seedlings and [...] Read »

Jólan van der Wiel unveiled an incredible set of stools shaped using magnetic fields and the force of gravity at the Dutch Transnatural exhibition during the Milan furniture Fair. The stools [...] Read »

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Hood River Middle School (photo by Michael Mathers) BY BRIAN LIBBY Since it began in 1997, the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment's annual Top Ten Green Projects list [...] Read »

This is the Year of the Museum for Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Read »

No one has a résumé like Vishaan The noted urban planner Vishaan Chakrabarti recently became a partner at SHoP Architects. Read »

Today, the American Institute of Architects’s Committee on the Environment (AIA–COTE) announced its Top Ten projects for 2012. Read »

Read the rest of 7 Biggest Threats to the Environment  Why We Still Need Earth Day Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: alternative energy, bee population, Biodiversity, canopy loss, [...] Read »

A short film commissioned for the Richard Rogers + Architects exhibition. Exposed from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners on Vimeo . Read »

iPhone users arent exactly at a loss when looking for a place to dock their phones these days. But even in a market thats flooded with a myriad docking and music amplification systems, the [...] Read »

Los Angeles architect Donovan Ballantyne has shared with us his thesis project project (a) Ball, a rather unique take on the geodesic dome concept. Along with the SCI-Arc Selected Thesis Award, [...] Read »

Traveling cross-country can be a drag, and flying across the world is downright exhausting. But what if there was a way to dramatically speed up the process? Evacuated Tube Transport is a super-high-speed [...] Read »

North Dakotas governor has bitten back at a Minnesota lawmaker who compared his states Depression-era Capitol building to an insurance office, calling the critic ignorant of classic architecture. [...] Read »

The new Orange Barrel HQ will reuse existing concrete storage silos and a renovated 10,000-sqft warehouse with a new 10,000-sqft addition. OBM President Pete Scantland says theyre aiming for [...] Read »

Browsing the Work Status Updates on our sister site Archinect, we recently came across an image of the intriguing structure CMYplay, a proposal of A\V Studio, originally designed for the 3Dimensional [...] Read »

The 2012 London Olympics are just a few short months away, and being no stranger to controversy, it is already facing criticism over the sourcing of metals for its iconic medals. With the slogan [...] Read »