All Blog Posts Tagged 'sustainability' (8)

The Sir Duncan Rice Library of the University of Aberdeen is conceived as a cube that evokes the ice and light of the north.  Its straight exterior is covered in a façade whose myriad angled lines are reminiscent of shards of ice.  By contrast,…

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Harmonious Unity Between Nature And Man…

 

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In the cities, the car’s insatiable appetite for space crowds out bikes and pedestrians. Today’s cities where every corner is invaded by cars,  can you imagine any road sides not full of parked car rows leaving no gateways to padestrians?

 

You could not, could you!

 

I was very amazed to discover the American activist art and design group…

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According to the China Environmental Protection Foundation, each year China produces 45 billion pair of disposable wooden chopsticks, the nation's famously convenient and low cost utensils.  To produce those billions of chopsticks… Continue

This lilypad has enough room for Kermit the Frog and 49,000 of his friends!

 

This interesting concept is by France- and Belgium-based Vincent Callebaut Architectures. …

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Hi everyone, i think every designer, architect has heard about the "cradle-to-cradle" manifest and William McDonough.



One of the writers of the book, Professor Michael Braungart talked about the Cradle-to-Cradle manifesto, the approach which revolutionized industrial design process, in Istanbul.



I was so exited to learn more about cradle-to-cradle from the writers. Do we really have any idea about being sustainable? what is regeneration?



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Finally, some cluster of buildings, planned by Foster + Partners in Masdar that is the first zero-carbon city are open to public use.

The city which will only use solar energy will provide energy savings that is equal to 2 billion cost petrol in 25 years.

The 82 % of the city’s energy will be provided by solar energy, 17 % of…

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A very interesting project by Jean Nouvel, One Central Park is an architecture / urban design project that seeks to green the Sydney urban landscape. The taller of the two towers look like modular structures. The largest terrace seems to simply be taken from the heart of the building. This project also includes an new urban park as well as 36,000 square meters of public open…

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