Tag: Design Competitions - Page 4
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Lamp Made From Jam Jars Wins Design Prize in Sweden
The future of recycling never looked so bright.
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Polkatoikea Is a Brilliant Mashup Of Le Corbusier, Mobile Homes, Kurokawa And IKEA
An urban multistorey trailer park may be the answer to affordable housing.
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Steven Chu Announces 2013 Solar Decathlon and Its New Location, California!
Today in Albuquerque, NM, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the 20 collegiate teams selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013. And he unveiled the competition's location, California!
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Wind-Powered Land Mine Clearing Device is Nominee for London Design Museum's "Designs of the Year" Awards
Nominees also include Kate Middleton's wedding dress, The Guardian's iPad edition, the T27 Electric Car, and more.
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Recycled Milk Crate Becomes Bike Seat and Basket
Clever reuse and ingenious functionality create a transformer bike-seat and cargo carrier from reused materials.
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Powered by Public Art: 10 Stunning "Aesthetic Power Plants" for Abu Dhabi and Dubai
An intriguing competition that calls for art that generates power is coming to New York.
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Earthscrapers: Is Going Down Instead Of Up A Greener Way To Build?
A quarter of a million blogs and magazines can't be wrong.
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Canstruction: Architects and Engineers Demonstrate Real Can-do Spirit
They use over 100,000 cans to build architectural models in support of New York food drive
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Enter A Competition To Show How 3D Printing Might Change The World
People may be able to "print themselves out of poverty" with this technology.
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Techies Try to Solve Hermit Crab Housing Shortage
Makerbot tries to solve the Hermit crab housing shortage by printing the crabs 3d shells
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GE's Renewable Energy Division Is A Wow Reno Of A 100 Year Old Factory
EYP Architects transform existing building "aesthetically, functionally and mechanically"
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Applications Open: Unreasonable Institute Looking For World-Saving Entrepreneurs
I wrote last year about the Boulder-based Unreasonable Institute's search for people who have great ideas, who think big, who want to change the world, and who seem like they can. Last year's fellowship was a great
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Forget Airplanes, Travel Via Cloud: Floating Zeppelin Network by Tiago Barros
In a world where everything seems to operate at hyper-speeds (often at the expense of the environment), we're well aware of the apparent benefits behind such movements as "slow food" "slow cities" and "slow design." But what about
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2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners Announced
The Curry Stone Design Prize was created to champion designers as a force for social change. Founded by architect Clifford Curry and Archaeologist/acitivist Delight Stone, it " recognizes innovators who address critical issues
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University of Maryland Wins Solar Decathlon
I am not a good judge of architectural competitions. In most cases, I find the winner to be a compromise, and the runners-up far more interesting and innovative. But not in this year's Solar Decathlon, where it all
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Reused Tires Make a Squid-Like Playground for Refugee Children
When Go Play! announced a competition to design an innovative playground for 1,000 refugee children along the border of Thailand and Burma, Dutch designer AnneMarie van Splunter thought of old car tires. To
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Buildup To Greenbuild: See The Winners of the Toronto Urban Design Awards
Every two years the City of Toronto presents the Urban Design Awards, with an independent jury choosing among dozens
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A Prettier Power Pylon: British Competition Short List Unveiled (Survey)
There are 88,000 power pylons in the UK, and the design of them has barely changed in 90 years. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change have been
