Tag: Design Competitions - Page 12
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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,
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Greenpeace Award Designers and Promote The Age of Stupid
"Historically posters have been inextricably linked with cause-related campaigns. Visually striking, often iconic and frequently iconoclastic, posters grab the attention like no other medium. They effectively help spread a succinct message and in
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The Incheon International Design Award 2009
The Korean city of Incheon and designboom have linked up to create a design competition that covers a broad swath of sustainable subject matter. The Incheon International Design Awards are open to anyone, and the three categories (green design for
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Swiss Pavilion at Shanghai has Green Roof, Soybean Walls
After posting about the Canada Pavilion for Shanghai 2010, commenters wondered: "How is constructing a temporary exhibition building anything close to sustainable?" and "International expos are the height of needless consumption and
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Raydike Tells It Like It Will Be When The Water Levels Rise
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commissions' Rising Tides Competition sought ideas "from practical and pragmatic to aggressively imaginative and speculative" to deal with rising water levels that will result from climate change. The
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Time is Running out For the Reburbia Suburban Design Competition
Treehugger has certainly written enough posts complaining about the suburban development model and predicting its demise, but over at Inhabitat and Dwell, they are doing something about it. They are running the REBURBIA competition to redesign our
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Bibliosphere Library Proposed in Germany
Libraries aren't what they used to be; they have to compete for attention now. Rem Koolhaas built his library in Seattle as a giant ramp and built his deathstar in Dubai; Greeen! Architects proposed dropping a Deathstar library (they call it a
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Proposal For London Bridge Has Solar Power, Vertical Farm
London Bridge isn't falling down, it is just really boring. It used to be an exciting place, an inhabited bridge full of shops and taverns, but they got rid of all that centuries ago and replaced it. A few decades ago, they took the 1831 version apart
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Shed of the Year Competition Winner Announced
It is always great fun to participate in the Shed of the Year competition, run by Uncle Wilco at Readersheds. I get to help choose the best of this very British obsession, the garden shed. Thousands of people vote, then a panel of judges picks the
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Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" Unveils New Duplex Designs
Brad Pitt's "Make It Right" Foundation has released a new set of duplex designs for New Orleans, by yet another
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Design Competition Looks for Innovative Ideas for Infrastructure
Interesting Design Competition: "Whoever Rules the Sewers Rules the City". More at WPA 2.0 (http://bit.ly/d9i4S)
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The Chain of Eco-Homes Competition for Greensburg
TreeHugger and Planet Green have been covering the rebuilding of Greensburg with posts and TV; TreeHugger has also watched closely the development of FreeGreen, which produces and then gives
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Bridging the Design Gap in Toronto
Bridges can be wonderful, iconic things that define a city; or, they can be banal, utilitarian and boring. Guess which Toronto is getting for its new pedestrian bridge over the railway tracks. The
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Barges are Back in London
There is a long history of people living on canal barges in London, but they were usually narrow, low and often pretty uncomfortable in winter. Not any more; British Waterways ran a design competition to renovate some big old spits barges into a mixed
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Pratt's Design for a Dollar is Hit of the Show (video)
The busiest, cleverest and greenest of all the booths was Pratt Institute's Design for a Dollar, where students produced useful and beautiful objects and provided backup to prove that they could be made for less than a dollar. It is a tough challenge,
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Romses Architects: From Vertical Farms To Backlane Solar Prefab
We previously showed Vancouver's Romses Architects' fabulous vertical farm Harvest Green. They appear to have submitted another entry in Vancouver's 2020 Challenge competition- a proposal for the
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New Skins for Old Towers: The Z-Prize For Low-Carbon Retrofit
At Architecture 2030, Ed Mazria tells us that buildings generate nearly 50% of the greenhouse gases in America; in the cities it is far higher. We know we have to cut the energy consumption of new buildings (not that anyone is taking this particularly
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National Design Awards Honor Amory Lovins
The National Design Awards, sponsored by the Smithsonian and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, are out and a big green winner is Amory Lovins, who got the Design Mind Award, which "recognizes a visionary who has affected a paradigm shift in design
