Tag: Design Competitions - Page 11
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Shipping Container Radar Tower Proposed For Rotterdam
The Port of Rotterdam ran a competition for the design of a 70 meter (230 feet) high tower for a radar and observation platform. Designboom shows NL Architects' proposal to build it out of shipping containers, an appropriate choice
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Innovative Infrastructure: Separating Cyclists And Cars With A High-Speed Ramp
Usually when pedestrians and cyclists are separated from cars at highways, it is the pedestrians who have to climb stairs and walk over the highway; cars get priority. So they often run across and get
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Got A Shed Design In Mind? Enter The Shed Design Competition
Shed design is fascinating because so many architects and designers have tried it. It is the entry drug for modern prefab, a way for designers to put something out there and people who need a little more space to get it without building permits or
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Greensburg Eco-Home Competition: Two Days Left To Look At Gorgeous Drawings
When looking at the submissions for the Chain of Eco-homes competition, I sometimes wondered if Greensburg shouldn't be renamed Sketchup City, after the rendering software that Google gives away. But whether it is Sketchup or other tools,
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Only Three More Days To Vote in the Chain of Eco-Homes Competition
I have been spending some time admiring the work submitted for the Greensburg Eco-Home competition; there is some lovely stuff. But there are also some seriously good ideas for green design that are worth looking at; many
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Grow Your Own Meat in Electrolux Design Lab Winner
The Electrolux Design Lab competition always yields interesting results; this year competing industrial design students were asked to look way into the future, creating "Designs for the next 90 years." Swedish design student Rickard Hederstierna took
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Holding Pattern: What To Do With Stalled Building Projects
What do you do with a building that died? The Boston Globe asked architects to come up with some solutions for stalled projects around town. Höweler + Yoon Architecture suggest turning a stalled Filenes project into a "temporary vertical algae
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Vote in the Chain of Eco-Homes Competition
I am in shock. I agreed to be a juror in the Chain of Eco-Homes competition for Greensburg along with a few other outstanding architects, writers, and Greensburg residents and just had a look at the extraordinary quantity and quality of the entries.
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Curry Stone Design Prize Finalists Announced, Include TreeHugger Fave Rob Hopkins
Designers can be an instrumental force in improving people's lives, and the Curry Stone Prize is given architects who do the kind of work that normally would not make the conventional design scene, but that can have huge impact. (Last year
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One Good Chair Competition: Vote On Where You Want To Put Your Rear
The three finalists' chairs are being unveiled today in Las Vegas; a finalist jury is picking the winner this week. A big component of the voting is the People's Choice vote here at TreeHugger; get more details below the fold. But vote!
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Award-Winning Architectural Bat House Opens for Bat-ness
Artist Jeremy Deller is bat happy; he loves these flying mammals. But they are becoming endangered due to the loss of their natural habitats. So he organised a competition to design a wildlife-friendly house for bats, to be built at the
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One Good Chair Competition: Peoples' Choice Award
TreeHugger readers have been asked to help pick the Peoples' Choice Award for the One Good Chair Competition, from among the three finalists. We have previously shown Andrej Blazon's Charity Chair and Azul Cadenas' BAMTAK Chair; Today the final
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One Good Chair Competition: BAMTAK Chair
TreeHugger readers can help pick the People's Choice in the One Good Chair Competition with a vote on Monday. Yesterday we discussed the criteria; today we note the remarkable and long list of judges, many of whom have graced
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One Good Chair Competition: Help Pick the People's Choice
The One Good Chair Competition challenged designers to "design an original chair that embodies and enhances a particular place." Its criteria are a reflection of changes in green design; it goes way beyond just making
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Trash Temple Built of 100 Tons of PET Bottles
After World War II, "cargo cults" developed among Pacific Islanders who had never seen such wonderful stuff as was dropped on them by both sides. According to Wikipedia,
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Teton Valley Community School Wins Open Architecture Challenge
Back in June we covered the selection of finalists in the Open Architecture Challenge to design the classroom of the future. Cameron Sinclair writes: This morning, an hour before the President takes the stage, a small independent non-profit school in
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Design to Improve Life: The 2009 Index Award Winners
Funded by the Danish government, the Index design award claims to be the biggest in the world, and "improving life" is the name of the game. In the buildup to the announcement of the 2009 winners' circle we've posted on entrants such as the Bambulance,
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"Common of Houses" Competition Results Could Actually Work
There has been a big political scandal in the UK, as Members of Parliament get caught charging the government for two houses,
