Tag: Belgium - Page 2
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Transformers: Extremis Gargantua
With a name like Extremis Gargantua, it sounds like it could be in a Transformer movie rather than a piece of transformer furniture, but that's what they call this table designed in 1994 by Dick Wynants. The benches clip onto the sloping legs at a
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Water Tower House by Jo Crepain
Woning Moereels, Van Watertoren Tot Vuurtoren, Brasschaat, Belgium. Built: 1991-1996.
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68 Gigawatts of Offshore Wind Power in North Sea = No More Nuclear or Coal: Greenpeace
Norway may be planning on becoming Europe's battery, but based on what Reuters is saying about a new proposal from Greenpeace it won't just be Norway which supplies Europe with electricity, it will be the North Sea. The head of
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2008 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Ignace Schops on Creating Belgium's First National Park
If it wasn't for Ignace Schops, one of the seven winners of the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize, Belgium may have lost much of its natural habitat. A herpetologist, Schops studies amphibians and reptiles and has worked in the field since 1990. With
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Rotating House by François Massau is 50 Years Old
50 years ago François Massau built this rotating house so that his sickly wife could enjoy sunshine and warmth any time of the year. Massau was an eccentric builder who does not appear to have been very nice, and spent his last years fighting in court,
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Density Is For The Birds
We have previously noted examples of Achieving Density in Prefabricated Housing; now Belgian artist Maxime Delporte gives us not a bird house, but a bird apartment complex with La Mangeoire project.
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Ecover First Company to use Responsible Print Program for their Watercare Info Leaflet
Brighton based print management company Four Corners has created a free reporting service for print buyers which highlights environmental benefits for print jobs. This service, called Responsible Print, is being used for the first time by Ecover, with
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TreeHugger Gets The Inside View on Ecover's Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products
Do we really know what goes into our eco-friendly cleaning products? Where they're made and why they work? Despite being a loyal Ecover customer for many years I must confess ignorance. Like many people I trust what it says on the label and the
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1% Water and Our Future: Art + Design Exhibition Gets Creative With H2O
Trying to impart the idea that our planet has a serious water shortage is a real challenge. It's most especially difficult to convince those of us that have hot and cold running water day and night that we really need to conserve this precious
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Eurostar Is Cheaper If You Shop Around
Eurostar Competing with Airlines In these times of record oil prices and global warming fears, train-operator Eurostar seems to be becoming an increasingly popular choice for folks wanting to travel between mainland Europe and the UK. With studies
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Ecover Responds to the Organic Consumers Association 1,4 Dioxane Test and TH Post
Sometimes it's easy to look at study numbers, and without any solid background in the field, infer judgment about what those numbers mean. We do this when we see cancer studies, read about glaciers retreating, or count the alarming number of species
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Architects' Home and Office is Less Than Eight Feet Wide
So often the space between buildings is just wasted, a source of heat loss and little else. sculp(IT), a "young, progressive and complementary team of architects who apply their passion for architecture to every task given" from Antwerp, have taken a
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World's 10 Best Biking Trails
The National Geographic travel guide, Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips features 22 Top 10 list of odd travels. One of them is the World's Top 10 bike trails.
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2008 Goldman Prize Lauds International Grassroots Environmentalists
Feliciano dos Santos accepts the Ouroboros trophy from Richard Goldman at the 2008 Goldman Prize ceremony held earlier this month in San Francisco. A second ceremony was held in Washington, D.C. The following post was written by Claire Alexander, vice
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Living Is .Be Whatever That Means
We love living with less and mobile housing, having a small footprint and not being tied down. The miniHome was great for this but needs a tractor; the portabach needs a crane and a trailer.
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Less is More: Stairs as Storage
Integrating storage into stairs like this makes so much sense in small spaces. It is common in Japan and I have seen Chinese furniture like this, but Voet-Theuns architecten have given it a modern spin.
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Update: Green Base on White Continent
We have covered the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica base at the design stage, discussed its wind turbines, and seen its unveiling in a hanger in Belgium. It was then dismantled and packed into 106 containers, and along with 4 Prinoth tractors and 2
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Most Energy Efficient Transportation Mode?
Transport & Mobility Leuven
