WOW Water Sterilizer
Sang Keun Sim and Kyowon L&C Design Team have designed the WOW Plasma Plus wireless water sterilizer that uses electrolysis to eliminate harmful bacteria – all without chemical detergents.
It’s just a project for the moment, we will have to wait to find it on the market.
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World’s Largest Solar Clock by Smith of Derby
UK’s leading Smith of Derby who has a history of repairing and restoring ancient clocks for more than 150 years now, have designed the world’s largest solar clock for The Baghdad University in Iraq as a part of their restoration plan which as an iconic symbol will rest on the newly redeveloped University.The luxury item has been designed as a focal point for Mosques, and for both public spaces and private homes. Read More…
‘A Wheatfield, with Cypresses’, Brought to Life Through a Living Wall at the National Gallery
For the first time ever, a painting is being made into a ‘living wall’ outside the National Gallery. With over 8,000 living plants, General Electric (GE) has brought a masterpiece to life with a version of Van Gogh’s famous painting A Wheatfield, with Cypresses as part of the Gallery’s carbon plan. Over 8,000 plants have been planted on hoarding outside the National Gallery to recreate Van Gogh’s A Wheatfield, with Cypresses.
The painting has been brought to life by GE (General Electric) as part of the Gallery’s carbon plan. More than 25 varieties of plant have been used to mimic the strong bands of colour in the original picture.
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Bali Net Zero Hotel|Spa by Christine Hadiningrat & Sauter Carbon Offset Design
Christine Hadiningrat in collaboration with Sauter Carbon Offset Design present the Bali Net Zero Hotel Resort & Spa; The first Zero Carbon 5 Star Hotel in the world that’s also a Solar Power Generating Plant for the local community. Acting as a power station during the day, the surplus energy that is generated by the Hotel’s solar panels which collect more than double the required amount to run the hotel, is sold to neighbors. By generating and selling this surplus electricity by day, the Hotel is able to offset the electricity they will consume from the grid by night. In this way, there is no need for an expensive storage system where returning power to the grid is not an option.
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Euclid Avenue House by Levitt Goodman Architects
Architects Dean Goodman and Janna Levitt, of Toronto-based Levitt Goodman Architects , designed this lovely downtown Toronto house for themselves and their teenage children. The house comprises two stories and a basement, and is both surrounded and topped by ample native foliage, both wild and cultivated, so the views from the windows give it an unexpectedly rural feel for its urban location.
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Eureka Pavilion at Chelsea Flower Show by NEX Architecture
Marcus Barnett was commissioned by new monthly magazine ‘Eureka’ from UK paper The Times, to compose a garden at the Chelsea Flower Show demonstrating ‘a commitment to science’. Marcus Barnett Landscape Architects enlisted the help of London architects NEX Architecture and structural engineering giants Buro Happold to envision a complimentary pavilion to sit within his garden, which will be relocated to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew following its temporary display at Chelsea Flower Show (24th-28th May).
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Heracleum Pendant Ligthing by Bertjan Pot for Moooi
This decorative LED lamp from Moooi is inspired by the Heracleum Plant, the white leaves/lenses ramify from one branch creating a very technical, natural structure. By using the technique of coating conductive layers, the lamp is very thin and delicate. The Heracleum lamp is made of metal wire frame, poly carbonate lenses and ultra thin suspension wire. Read More…
The Eco-Wine Cube by Michael Jantzen
The Eco-Wine Cube from American designer Michael Jantzen is a concept proposal for a wine bar that will only serve sustainably grown wine. Based around sustainability, the materials, construction and continued practices of the interior are all environmentally friendly. Inside the Eco-Wine Cube, visitors can watch LCD digital display windows projecting images from the surrounding countryside. LCD screens are embedded in the tables that offer wine selection information along with other interactive entertainment.
Canoon, Green Heater by Younes Duret
Canoon by Younes Duret takes inspiration from Eastern oriental graphics and the traditional Moroccan hearth to create a transportable and calming space heater. The unit is composed entirely of recycled plastic, uses less energy than the average space heater, and is easily controlled by a simple stroke of the hand on it’s top or lower components which vary in color between turquoise and red to indicate the units temperature.
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“Éva,” Indoor Homefamer by François Hurtaud
Eva by French Designer François Hurtaud is a green alternative to the traditional compost heap.
One part of the waste is recycled to grow food and the other part produces methane turned into energy thanks to a co-generator. The energy obtained, produces light to stimulate the growth of the plants. The water is naturally filtered as it enters the container. Eva is a kind of self contained biosphere homefarm system that not only allows to cultivate vegetables but also produces fresh air and light. Eva is evidence of the restaurants’ green and healthy food process.
Eco-Silicon Valley in Bejing, Project Eriksson Architects
This is the design by Helsinki-based design studio, Eriksson Architects for an Eco-settlement in the Mentougou Eco Valley in China. Currently awaiting permission from the Chinese government, the project still has to step over legal red tape. Once done, this will be an Eco-Silicon valley in itself and will use different types of raw materials, unlike the conformist architecture, making the city unique.
The city will span a 100 square meters and will include nine environmental research institutes and companies, one city center and several smaller residential villages with enough roof for 50,000 people!
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“AGe House” by Marco Bernardini
AGe Houset by Marco Bernardini has been build in a hill and seamlessly becomes part of its natural surroundings using supplies that seamlessly unify the construction to its natural surroundings.
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Coral Reef, 1000 Passive Houses by Vincent Callebaut Architects
The Coral Reef project by Vincent Callebaut Architects plans a matrix to build a three dimensional and energy self-sufficient village from one and only standardized and prefabricated module in order to rehouse the refugees from such humanitarian catastrophes. This basic module is simply made of two passive houses (with metallic structure and tropical wood facades) interlocked in duplex around a transversal horizontal circulation linking every unit.
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KOR ONE H2o Vessel
Designed by RKS, KOR One was a beaut — a BPA-free plastic bottle that shimmered like glass, came in iMac-y colors, and had a unique, flattened circular base.KOR ONE features a hinged cap and ice cube-friendly, threadless spout. KORONE” bottled water is made from Eastman Tritan™ a ground-breaking new plastic that is made without Bisphenol-A (BPA). A chemical found in the polycarbonate widely used to make reusable water bottles, BPA is a hormone disrupter that has been linked to diabetes, cancer, and obesity.
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Whitepod Resort, Eco Swiss Igloos
The Whitepod Resort is a village of 15 igloos where comfort and nature joins together in the Swiss Alps at 1700 meters above sea level, at the foot of the Dents-du-Midi (“The Teeth of Mid-day”).
With the use of the pods (dome shaped tents), pitched on wooden platforms, Whitepod offers low impact accommodation in an untouched and pristine alpine environment. Isolated from all urban pollution, the mountain region lends itself beautifully to such an eco-tourism development. After a night in a “pod” geodesic igloo snow so the cozy interior (with king-size bed), you can enjoy massages, sauna and winter sport activities like snowshoeing rides or dogsled. Member of « The Luxury Camps & Lodges of the World » and rewarded with the World Prize for Sustainable Tourism in 2005, the Whitepod Resort aims to be a model for sustainable tourism by using a number of measures to limit its impact on nature.
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Boston Treepods Project by nflux Studio
In an effort to further decrease the carbon dioxide that trees naturally filter out, Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico from nflux Studio in Paris designed the TREEPOD for the SHIFTboston Urban Intervention Contest.
Developed by Dr Klaus Lackner, Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia University, this revolutionary process is based on the discovery of the ‘humidity swing,’ a technology that enables the energy-efficient capture of CO2 from air, allowing to close the carbon cycle and creating a valuable product for beneficial use.
The TREEPODS themselves will be made entirely of recycled/recyclable plastic from drink bottles. Based not only on trees, but on the human lung, the design of the “branches” will feature multiple contact points that serve as tiny CO2 filters. The proposed design, giant white and translucent canopies of trees, can be installed among existing trees or on their own. Intere
stingly, the TREEPODS have been compared to “urban furniture”: sleek yet functional design pieces that would fit into any urban environment. At night, the TREEPODS light up in an array of eye-catching colors.
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“Stickwork,” Installations by Patrick Dougherty
North Carolina-based artist Patrick Dougherty has gained an international reputation for his natural-wood structures and has created hundreds of monumental, site-specific sculptures around the world. His work is constructed from saplings gathered from local sources and shaped into massive, swirling forms as high as 40 feet.
Dougherty crafts large-scale sculptures from saplings: weaving, snagging, and flexing sticks into playful, nestlike architectural forms that evoke themes of shelter, habitat, and sustainability. Created of organic matter, his works have a natural life cycle, changing over time as the sticks settle and decay, eventually returning to the earth they grew from. Read More…
Lunar Cubit, Solar Power Generating Pyramids for Abu Dhabi
The energy-generating public art installation Lunar Cubit has won the First Prize at the 2010 Land Art Generator Design Competition. Lunar Cubit is a site specific proposal to be constructed in Abu Dhabi just outside Masdar City, the world’s first zero carbon metropolis once completed. Combining artistic vision with sustainable design and engineering, Lunar Cubit examines the nature of time through nightly contemplation of lunar phases and daily transformation of sunlight into electricity, powering up to 250 homes. Inspired by astronomy, quantum physics and the photoelectric effect, for which Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921, this work is open to the public, inviting a personal experience where one can literally reach out and touch a 1.74MW utility scale power plant, in the form of nine monolithic pyramids rising from the sands of Abu Dhabi.
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