Tag: Design Competitions - Page 2
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Sustainable Fishing Net Slashes Overfishing, Reduces Fuel Consumption Too
Industrial fishing is a damaging business. SafetyNet, a winner of the James Dyson Award, solves many of the industry's most pressing problems.
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Warming Hut By Lateral Office Pays Homage To The Humble Snow Fence
Temporary shelter Is a fence with a twist.
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Help Finish Greensburg's Meadowlark Eco-Home
The winner of a design competition runs out of money before it's complet
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SOM's Proposal for a Grand Central Terminal for the Next Hundred Years
And now for something completely different from Lord Foster's proposal
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Curry Stone Prizes Celebrating Social Design Pioneers Announced
The awards demonstrate "the power of design as a critical force for improving lives and strengthening communities."
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Starchitects Don't Win In Stirling Prize Shocker
A more modest green building from an architect few have heard of takes the big British prize
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Brooklyn Timber Tower Student Competition Announced
Students and recent grads get to play with what is probably the greenest building material.
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'PiantaLà' Has all of the Charm of a White Picket Fence Without the Commitment
Designer's trellis you can plant on your balcony mimics the charm and beauty of a white picket fence.
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London Wants a High Line Too But Chooses a Tunnel as the Winner of Its Design Competition
London has New York's High Line envy, so they held a competition to get their own.
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Crapping On Bill Gates' "Reinvent the Toilet" Winner
The last thing the world needs is a high tech electrochemical reactor toilet. This is a social problem, not a technical one.
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Architecture Students Strut Their Stuff in Habitat For Humanity Competition to Design a Sustainable Home
If you ignore the fundamental problem with this competition's sponsorship by the Vinyl industry, there is some interesting stuff going on.
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The Week In Design: From Food Trucks To Washing Machines to Smart Phones, Ideas That Change The Way We Live and Work
There were fewer pretty pictures and more big ideas this week
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The Olympic Cauldron In Its New Home at the Olympic Stadium
Which is more exciting--seeing the Cauldron, or the stadium? It's a toss-up.
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Update On The New York City Micro-Unit "Design" Competition: Was This Trip Really Necessary?
They held an information session today, but shed very little light.
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How To Furnish A 300 SF Apartment For New York: Fill It With Transformer Furniture
Resource Furniture designs a response to New York's AdAPT Competition
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Transformer Apartment By Night Turns Into A Parking Space By Day
Designer Aaron Cheng Is onto something big with his entry in the James Dyson Design Awards.
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Beat The Heat: Original Green Architect Steve Mouzon Says, "Condition People First"
Before you condition the air, how about conditioning the people to the climate? Architect Steve Mouzon shows us how.
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Bloomberg Does Not Announce Design Competition for Tiny Apartments. It's a "Request for Proposals".
If only it really was a design competition. It's not. Why not drop the RFP crap and do the real thing?
