Miscellaneous
Oakland-based Leafcutter Design has created plant-able money that is just as whimsical as Monopoly money but a lot more green. These beautiful paper pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters are embedded [...] Read »
Read the rest of Corten-Clad Casa La Baronia Resists the Pacific Oceans Corrosive Power in Chile Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Max Núñez, Nicolás del Rio Read »
Last Friday a Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid caught fire in Woodside, California. Thankfully there were no passengers in the Karma at the time that flames erupted from the drivers side front corner [...] Read »
Water Levels Photo from Shutterstock Over 1 billion people live in areas where groundwater is disappearing faster than it can be replenished, according to a new study published in Nature. Groundwater [...] Read »
click images for larger view batcolumn - 1977, Claes Oldenburg, sculptor, 101 feet high (600 West Madison) bridgecolumn - 1908, William H. Finley, Assistant Chief Engineer, 170 feet high (Carroll [...] Read »
Imagine youre a New York City building official, and the mayors office has decided to let an artist build a living room six stories up in the air and wrap it around a historic statue of Christopher [...] Read »
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Technology
Read the rest of Off-Grid Storm Cottage is a Solar-Powered Timber Box on Australias Great Barrier Island Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: australia, Daylighting, eco design, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and Davis Brody Bond Revamp National Malls Union Square in Washington DC Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", [...] Read »
Read the rest of Kids Build Epic Model of Japan from 1.8 Million LEGO Bricks! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 1.8 million LEGOs, 50th Anniversary LEGO, Build up Japan, eco design, [...] Read »
Read the rest of Curvy Lakeside Chenequa Residence Wraps Around a Solid Stone Wall in Wisconsin Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "natural materials", Architecture, Chenequa Residence, [...] Read »
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