Source: theguardian.com Published: November 11, 2014 One Central Park, which was named the best tall building in the world, has a heliostat that at night turns into an LED artwork. Photograph: Murray Fredericks/PR An apartment block in Chippendale impressed jurors for...
Source: iflscience.com Published: November 4, 2014 Cloud Collective A French and Dutch design firm has come up with an elegantly simple way to harness the wonderful power of nature in order to clean up the environment: an algae farm suspended over a small stretch of...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: October 17, 2014 by Lidija Grozdanic The project is part of an initiative to create a new urban space for recreation, led by the chairman of the SkateCity association Morten Hansen. CEBRA and Glifberg+Lykke designed a...
Source: themindunleashed.org Published: September 25, 2014 Featured image credit: Forward Thinking Architecture Get the latest from The Mind Unleashed in your inbox. Sign up right here. Architects from Barcelona, Spain, have designed a system of floating vertical...
Source: grist.org Published: August 18, 2014 Danielle McClung By Sara Bernard When Dennis and Danielle McClung bought a foreclosed home in Mesa, Ariz., in 2009, their new yard featured a broken, empty swimming pool. Instead of spending a small fortune to repair and...
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com Published: July 19, 2014 An abandoned Sony factory in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, has been transformed into what could very well be the farm of the future. Shigeharu Shimamura, a plant physiologist and CEO of Mirai, has constructed...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 4, 2014 Bridgette Meinhold Green Over Grey, who has completed a number of other large vertical garden installations like the one in the Edmonton Airport, was in charge of the design for The Currents. “According to our research,...
Source: brooklynpaper.com Published: April 8, 2014 Green giant: Developer Forest City Ratner and its Chinese-government partner will build a green roof on top of the Barclays Center that will help muffle noise from big-ticket events. Forest City Ratner By Megan Riesz...
