A group of architects and two construction with two things in common: they are Taiwanese and want to be sustainable. Together they have made possible an environmental convention center in Taipei that will be donated to the City to be "used for the 2010 Flora exposure . It's called EcoArk and consists of one and a half million recycled plastic bottles. Continue Reading »
Everyone normally at our disposal great magazines and newspapers, after a single use, still keeping precious photographs of sites and designs ideal to enjoy. A great source material the use of high-quality paper and inks, full color, with almost no cost constraint, creativity and production, and then go straight to the container of paper (with luck). In addition to its uses and recycles most popular, recently the newsprint and magazine is also being used to coat handbags , dresses and other designer items by giving them a second chance to survive in the world of design.
With recycled cardboard, and all those old magazines that go direct to the trash, at 19a have done both table-chair reader reader. All these magazines are surrounded rolls and tied with raffia ribbon. If we put a glass top we have a small dinner table, we can see the texture formed by the magazines wrapped around the glass, Continue Reading »
Malaysia is one of the countries known as torchbearers of green architecture. In its capital, Kuala Lumpur is developing several projects in which what prevails is the respect for the environment. Continue Reading »
Nosigner Japanese designer will display three new products this year at London Design Festival 2008 .
Renaissance is one of them, lighting product that is made with eggshells.
The eggshells are very fragile and weak, but you can make a consistent structure and biodegradable, creating a beautiful natural totamente lamp material.
In this world with tons of artificial things around us, I think many people want "real things", Continue Reading »
Plantware instead of using branches to create structures, using new techniques that exploit the malleability of the roots and trunks of trees gives way to transform them into different urban furniture and objects designed "to measure." He has developed and patented a range of horticultural techniques so they can grow soft, flexible and resilient.
Technology Plantware creates functional outdoor structures in cities, parks and gardens.
Plantware presented a paper entitled "Kinder Forest: A Life of Games" is presented as follows. KinderForest gives children real trees to play, gives parents Continue Reading »
On the source of our friends Dezona , we can offer a short preview of the new eco furniture collection Frank Ryan, we will see in the upcoming London Design Festival .
Ryan Frank South African by birth, is a furniture designer who lives and works in east London.
"Isabella" is shaped African Totem, since seats are stackable and interlocking pieces, with textures of straw and wool. Inspired by traditional African carved seat, Continue Reading »
The International Design Festival Berlin (DMY ), we can see experimental designs and ideas that some of us seem impossible to imagine placed in the living room. However, it is creative freedom becomes a laboratory where new ideas take shape, for the first time. IKARUS is the case.
IKARUS Aylin Kayser and created by Christian Metzner (Germany) is an ephemeral light cone shaped, made with 98% of wax. The light that is inside the wax does melt slowly and the cone adopts different forms .
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