[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Images by Joost van Brug
In yet an other great example of combining functions to take up less space, Georg Bohle builds a piano into a dining table. For that matter, you can have music while you dine. “The pianotable offers a dinner with the accompaniment of a piano. The piano player takes a seat at […]
One of the virtues of standing desks is that they can take up a lot less space. Here is a neat tower that gives you a place to store your notebook, but also has all kinds of storage and features including a printer drawer, sockets and plugs for projectors and accessories and even a sound […]
Image from Shanzai
Cardboard is popping up everywhere. A strong and durable material, it is made from recycled paperboard and is itself recyclable when you get bored. It is long lasting, can be assembled easily, comes in a flat-pack and some say is softer and friendlier than wood or plastic. It certainly is […]
It used to be that rising tides due to climate change were just a far-off fear - now they’re a present-day reality. But we all know that humans are a race of survivors, and some of the best designs come out of the necessity to adapt to environmental changes and challenges. So while we’re working […]
It may well be the ugliest house we have shown on TreeHugger, and it is made of garbage, too. But Ian McPherson of Welsh startup Affresol takes plastic waste, grinds it down to little granules. They then mix it with liquid resin and pour it like concrete into panels, which they call Thermo Poly Rock […]
images courtesy of Abitare
It seems you can build just about anything out of cardboard. Fabrizio of the Italian design magazine Abitare shows us a 10 meter (33 foot) high tower, built by the Institut fuer Konstruktion und Gestaltung at Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, for an exhibition in Paris.
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Photo: Digital Lumens
A Bright Idea for the Lighting Industry
According to the US Department of Energy, lighting represents about 12% of energy consumption for residential buildings and 25% for commercial ones (presumably because commercial buildings are kept much brighter than residential homes on average). That’s a lot of energy, and despite recent improvements thanks to CFLs […]
Brazilian Architect Felipe Campolina’s Portable Housing does not appear to have made it to the finals of the Evolo 2010 skyscraper competition, but has shown up in Designboom. It is perhaps one of the most revolutionary; Your home becomes portable and you move it from place to place, plugging it into a form of vertical […]
Images from WAN
Architect Amir Sanei has a lovely garden in Suffolk in the UK, and enjoys building things in it. He discusses his lovely garden shed in World Architecture News:
“I didn’t set out to make a Wendy House, I set out to make something. It grew out of windows I found in a skip [dumpster] […]
Image from Wallpaper
It’s a David and Goliath win. The folding plug, designed by a humble student from the Royal College of Art in London, has won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010 overall prize at the Brit Insurance Design Awards this year.
And TreeHugger called it, right from the st… Read the full […]
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