Various architects and designers seem to be focusing on different eco-friendly structures nowadays. The Wind Farm Celebration is just another mere example. Proposed by an internationally known artist and designer Michael Jantzen, the Wind Farm Celebration is a structure that is powered by a wind turbine. Within the perimeter of the central tower that supports …
Month: November 2009
The Cellulose By Paul Coudamy
Cardboard furniture has been around for quite sometime as a form of respect to the environment. We all know that cardboard is easy to dispose and doesn’t have any chemical to decompose. In this way, every time cardboard’s life has come to end, it normally decomposes itself if not recycled. Another designer paying tribute of …
The Idea House By Broadway Malyan
Designed for Sime Darby Property, the Idea House is South East Asia’s first carbon zero residence. The Idea House has prefabricated modules that save up the construction cost and speed up the process at the same time. The modules also allow easy deconstruction at the end of the house’s useful life.Aside from being pre-fabricated, the …
The Cloud By Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Shortlisted as one of the entries for a competition in building a tourist attraction that will create a lasting legacy in the Olympic Park in London, The Cloud is a 400 fee-tall mesh tower. It is topped with solar powered plastic bubbles that are responsible for showing images and data like the weather information, the …
WNW Bar By Vo Trang Nghia Co. Ltd
Another great architecture has been built in Vietnam. With the aim to save from the construction cost, the WNW or Wind and Water Bar by Vo Trang Nghia Co. Ltd., is constructed using low cost materials. Since the place where the WNW located is prone to flood, the WNW bar is also easy to construct …
Orchid-Vase Included By Packlab Partners
When buying flowers particularly and orchid, they are packed with a paper or plastic that is destined to be thrown away right after. Members of the Packlab Partners came up with an eco-friendly orchid packaging design that will allow the buyers to recycle the flower packaging by simply using it as the flower’s vase. Hailed, …
Recycled Spray Can Light
Spray cans are tends to be discarded after its contents are consumed. However, to keep it from giving the chance to grow our landfills, the recycled spray can light are created. Designed by the artistic and talented children from Zek, the recycled spray can light can our perfect pendant light at home. It can be …
The Hakutan Coal Air Purifier: Cleans Air Without The Chemicals
With the vast growth of air pollutants, and eco-friendly product that has been used for generations in Asia is made available at Design Within Reach. The Hakutan Coal Air Purifier is a white coal that purifies air by absorbing kitchen odors and it regulates humidity in your bathroom as well. One greater thing that the …
Recycled Cup Canopy From Bios Design Collective
During the Outside Land concert in San Francisco, the crowd had tons of waste cups that resulted into a problem, as it will surely make our landfills grow. However, BIOS Design Collective comes up with an eco-friendly solution for the problem and it is the recycled cup canopy. Designer Chris Chalmers is the ones responsible …
The Pangolin Backpack From Cyclus
Inspired by the animal known as he Pangoline, the Pangolin backpack has the design that resembles the razor sharp scales on the back part of the spiny pangolin. The backpack is made from recycled tire inner tubes from trucks and is handmade in columbia. Instead of a standard zipper enclosure, the Pangolin Backpack is designed …