Drinking bottled water and other refreshing drinks is a wide practice worldwide, thus resulting into mountains and mountains of landfill filled with empty and used PET bottles. To help reduce or minimize the growth of landfills of PET bottles, the Santa Cruz family from Pureto Iguazu, Argentina have designed an eco-friendly castle called as the [...]
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You might be wondering how to have a park and a supermarket in one. The Park Supermarket is actually developed by a Rotterdam firm Van Bergeb Architects. As the name suggests, the supermarket will also serves as a park because items that you can buy in a supermarket are cultivated and harvested in the area [...]
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A self-sufficient power center will be built soon in Gwanggyo, a new town in the south part of Seoul Korea, and the Dutch architects MVRDV won the project. The power center will house residential units, office, culture, retail, leisure, and education spaces. The center will have plantations around terraces with a floor-to-floor circulation system that [...]
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Working like under a tree is cool and refreshing. This is what SO-IL wanted to achieve. With the aim of becoming more energy efficient by 2030, designing the underused rooftop with a cool landscape is on of the projects that they are developing at the moment. The company who does the job is the Garden [...]
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Can you see yourself live in this cardboard house in the future ? Actually if you think about it, this is not so bad, this cardboard is very strong, waterproof, and easy to build (in fact you can build it today and live inside it tomorrow). The Cardboard House represents the reduction of technology and [...]
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