[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Photo credit: Vivir Mexico
Mexico City’s minister of the environment, Martha Delgado, announced Friday that in August a pilot project requiring students to take school buses instead of private vehicles to school at 10 private schools would commence. The initiative was spurred by the success of a study carried out at the Colegio Oxford private school, […]
A gene linked to a type of motor neurone disease that runs in families has been pinned down after a 10-year search.
If you are going to live with less stuff, it’s nice if it serves multiple functions. Here is an interesting looking desk from French designer Florian Jouy that turns into a bed….
Swedish no-mix toilets
Over a hundred years ago, Teddy Roosevelt noted that “civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other way than putting it into the drinking water.” We still don’t get it right, building huge networks of pipes that dump everthing together into one pipe, when both bodily waste […]
When Collin and I covered the stunning new Valcucine Invitrum kitchen at ICFF last year, the distributor said in the video that it would last forever: “this is a kitchen that your grandchildren will be using.”
It is all made of glass and aluminum, which according to their site, “the exclusive use of glass […]
Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Instead throwing out crumbs or carefully collecting them for the birds, this self-cleaning bread board delivers them directly to the bird. I mean, it has to be the greatest thing since, well, sliced bread….
Blair Kamin calls the Sears Tower ” a symbol of Chicago’s urban might, not only because of its dark, masculine color but also because its exterior boldly expresses the structural system of “bundled tubes” that support it.”
It’s not for nothing that Skidmore, Owings and Merrill were nicknamed the “three blind mies”- it has […]
The Bronx NIMBYs went nuts when it was proposed that a water filtration plant be built in a park. So the architects, Grimshaw, followed what is becoming a common strategy: put a green roof on it and show it from the air. Building? What building?
And in this case, it’s BIG, nine acres big, […]
4+1=2?
When Steven Holl Architects announced this week that it had won a competition to design a corporate master plan in China’s southern financial capital Shenzhen, near a new tower by OMA, it immediately raised some eyebrows. It wasn’t its “4-in-1″ tower design that was so striking. It wasn’t the sustainable touches. It was the […]
Image via: FoxFury
FoxFury, maker of lights of all shapes and sizes, has just come out with their heavy-duty Fire Figher Rated Headlamp. If you’re in the market for a headlamp that is fire resistant, impact resistant and water proof up to 20 feet, then this is the headlamp for you. If you’re more in the […]