Technology
Read the rest of Help These NYIT Students Build a Recycling Center in Costa Rica Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Costa Rica, eco design, green architecture, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Paradoxically Beautiful Power Plants are Designed to Enhance Norway’s Dramatic Landscape Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "clean energy", Bjørnstokk and ØvreForsland, [...] Read »
Meta Material showed people at this year’s Milan Design Week that just because you want to breathe clean air does not mean you have to use a clunky and industrial-looking contraption to do [...] Read »
When officials at Florida Polytechnic University realized that their existing campus could no longer support a burgeoning population, it made sense to commission world-renowned alumnus Santiago [...] Read »
Read the rest of Nashville Riverfront Transformed From Wasteland to Cumberland Play Park for Families Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", "sustainable [...] Read »
Designer Werner Aisslinger unveiled a brilliant living chair at this years Milan Design Week that is grown from the ground up instead of being produced in a factory. The green chair consists [...] Read »
Designer Pepe Heykoop fused two ceramic tea pots together to create the Tapepot a vessel with two spouts and two chambers that can serve several guests at the same time. The mold for the Tapepot [...] Read »
Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop transforms the disused into the exquisite with his Leather Loops stools. Using remnant leather collected from the furniture industry, Heykoop has created a line of [...] Read »
Prefab home builder Blu Homes is currently working on this years Sunset Idea House, which will be open to the public this summer. The annual housing project by Sunset Magazine shows off the [...] Read »
Read the rest of Domus and Audis Milan Exhibit Explores The Future in the Making Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3D printing, AUDI, Audi's Milan Exhibit, Brook Drumm, Diatom [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
Read the rest of Heath Ceramics Sustainable Pottery Pieces Will Complement any Contemporary Home Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: ceramic cups, ceramic dinnerware sets, ceramic [...] Read »
Read the rest of Zero-Energy Huginn & Muninn Sauna on Stilts Inspired by Norse Mythology Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, AtelierFORTE, fir wood, Huginn & Muninn, [...] Read »
Just over two years ago, an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig operated by BP killed 11 crew members and sparked the worst oil spill in US history. The accident released almost 5 million [...] Read »
Efforts to reopen a previously sealed oil well in the Russian Arctic caused up to 2,000 tons of crude to flow uncontrollably over a 37 hour period, covering an estimated 86,000 square feet of [...] Read »
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Read the rest of MOVIE REVIEW: Frozen Planets David Attenborough Shows Us The Frozen Poles As Weve Never Seen Them Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bbc, david attenborough, [...] Read »
Living in Finland and having previously written about Finnish Wine I couldnt pass up the opportunity to write about Finnish Whiskey. You heard it right there may be a nascent Whiskey Industry [...] Read »
Wyatt federal building (photo by Brian Libby) BY BRIAN LIBBY For most of its history, the Edith Green Wendell Wyatt federal building has been hiding in plain sight: a bland, nondescript office [...] Read »
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Read the rest of 6 Cool Camper and Tent Designs for a Summer Adventure Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: all-in-one jacket, bike trailer camping, camping gear, camping tents, cycling, [...] Read »
After months of agonized debate about its 110-year-old tradition of free education, Cooper Union will begin charging graduate students next year while maintaining, at least for now, its no-tuition [...] Read »
The site of 425 Park Avenue now awaits its fate as a star-studded line-up of prospective architects compete for the chance to helm the $750 million project. L&L Holding Co. has tapped Jean Nouvel, [...] Read »
Things are changing enormously in almost every sense. The effects of globalization have been positive and negative. My generation of architects is the first that could work almost anywhere in [...] Read »
The 'Stadium of Tomorrow' design competition, sponsored by global stadium architecture specialist Populous to mark the completion of the design of its first major sports stadium in Korea, attracted [...] Read »
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In looking at these designs, I think back and remember that some people predicted the terrorist attacks of 2001 would end our lust for travel, notes Albrecht, who teaches in the decorative [...] Read »
click images for larger view Above is the corner of Jefferson and Tilden in February. This was the corner of Jefferson and Tilden this weekend. 400 South Jefferson was constructed in 1946 for [...] Read »
You cant accuse James Cameron of ever thinking small. Not content with reaching the bottom of the Marianas Trench last month, the Avatar director is now, along with Google Inc executive Eric [...] Read »
Yesterday saw the launch of a new eMagazine on World-Architects.com , something I've been working on for a while now and for which I serve as Editor-in-Chief. The eMagazine is sent out as a newsletter [...] Read »
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