Technology
Read the rest of Owen Mortensens Organic Art Reveals the Delicate Inner Workings of Leaves Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bamboo art, eco design, flower art, green design, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Baidus Science and Technology Campus is a Circular Green Haven in Beijing Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Baidu Science and Technology Campus, Beijing, china, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Portuguese Barn Transformed into Sun-Drenched Louvered Residence Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, barn conversion, Cortegaca, eco design, green [...] Read »
Read the rest of Mallorcas Villa Chameleon is Embedded with LEDs to Create a Color Changing Facade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: chameleon villa, exclusive architecture, LED [...] Read »
Seoul, South Korea is now home to the worlds tallest LEGO skyscraper the LEGO World Tower! Built to celebrate LEGO’s 80th birthday, the tower reached a record-breaking 104.65 feet. The previous [...] Read »
Read the rest of Anish Kapoors Recycled Steel ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower Now Complete in London Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", 2012 London Olympics, [...] Read »
Saudi Arabia has long been a wealthy country because of its enormous oil reserves. But the kingdom also is rich in sunlight, and it now promises to invest over $100 billion to develop 41 gigawatts [...] Read »
Weve seen scientists use viruses to generate electricity in car batteries before, however a team from the U.S. Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) believes [...] Read »
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Miscellaneous
To do things differently, it helps to connect with new people and contexts. Universities and design schools seldom make that easy... This handout contains the most interesting ones weve found [...] Read »
To some, it seemed an unlikely fit, Gehry designing a memorial honoring Ike, but that impression was always based on two misunderstandings. There is a vulgar idea that Gehry is all about flamboyant [...] Read »
Photo via Architizer Over the weekend, in celebration of Lego's 80th birthday, 4,000 kids in Seoul, South Korea turned 50,000 pieces into the tallest tower ever to be constructed using the toy [...] Read »
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. Maya Angelou Boring still life objects turned into intriguing erotic images | Love it or hate it : Toronto’s [...] Read »
Miscellaneous
Solar technology could have a role in reversing blindness in the near future. Stanford University researchers have invented goggles that can send information to chips which behave like solar [...] Read »
Chinas economy is growing at unprecedented rates, and the superpower has been doing everything it can to generate enough power to support it. So far the nation has invested in everything from [...] Read »
Urban planning has focused on identifying many important questions about the formation and functioning of our cities. However, there is a lack of understanding about the spatial patterns related [...] Read »
This USB flash-drive design combines a simple safety pin with a 4GB computer memory stick to create a simple and functional way to keep tabs on your mini gadget. The device, called Bulavkus, is [...] Read »
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Porsche has just released more official information about its upcoming 918 Spyder hybrid sports car, which is set to go into production at the end of 2013. Porsche is currently testing prototypes [...] Read »
Ferrari makes some of the greatest supercars in the world, but unfortunately drivers looking for a green supercar have had to look elsewhere. Until the upcoming Ferrari hybrid debuts, Ferrari [...] Read »
Deep in the belly of New Yorks subway system, a beautiful untouched station resides that has been forgotten for years with only a limited few knowing of its existence. Stunning decoration with [...] Read »
So Paluska and Meyer Sound, a world-renowned audio engineering company in Berkeley, teamed up to test a relatively new technology that controls reverberation levels with the press of a button. [...] Read »
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The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) at Kent State University invites writers, designers, artists and thinkers to submit abstracts for Volume 5 of their annual publication, Urban Infill [...] Read »
Congrats to Jimenez for getting his project funded , with minutes remaining. Can't wait to see the results! Read »
This 34,000-square-foot regional health facility located in an under-served neighborhood in southwest Atlanta combines under one roof a primary care clinic, a behavioral health clinic, childcare [...] Read »
For retailers, daylight offered one additional advantage the advertisements did not mention: the implication of moral virtue. Large department stores were described as cesspools of fraud, filth, [...] Read »
Over the weekend, OMAs design for the stage set at the historic Greek Theater in Syracuse, Sicily, was inaugurated with the performance of Aeschyluss Prometheus Unbound, directed by Claudio [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Read the rest of Berlins Wagendorf Lohmühle is a Hidden Self-Sufficient Caravan Village Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, Art, berlin, Botanical, caravan, Caravan [...] Read »
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