Tag: Design Competitions - Page 5
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Vincent Callebaut Designs "Bionic Arch"- A Green Skyscraper For Taiwan
When Jerry wrote about Vincent Callebaut's proposed vertical farm for New York City, he called it a Locavore Wet Dream; I called it one of the silliest, most overwrought jump-the-shark vertical farm ideas ever
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Vertical Farms For London Are Lovely Green Eye Candy
Vertical farms may be pie in the sky, but they are a lot of fun for architects with time on their hands. AWR recently organized a competition to design a vertical farm with a residential use called LOFT 2011.
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Buildup to Greenbuild: A New Vision For The Toronto Waterfront
This series is going to be about what people can actually see and do in Toronto, but a
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Elemental Monterey Social Housing Wins World's Largest Design Prize
The INDEX Design prize splits $ 800,000 among five categories: Body, Home, Work, Play and Community. The Home category has been given to the ELEMENTAL Monterrey, a clever social housing project in Mexico. The units are what Avi
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Hövding Airbag Helmet Wins World's Largest Design Prize
We were so intrigued by the Hövding airbag bike helmet that we covered it twice, here and here. While we might have been a bit dubious about a $500 one-shot helmet designed to prevent helmet head, the judges at INDEX, the world's
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Endless Chair Goes Straight From Lineland to Spaceland, Skips Flatland
One of the winners of the top award at the International Design Festival Berlin was Endless by Dutch designer Dirk Vander Kooij. He melts down refrigerators for the plastic raw material, extrudes it into a string, and then has a robot
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Architecture Students, Don't Miss This! Dow Design To Zero Competition Has Inspired Program
Every time the Solar Decathlon rolls around I admire the ingenuity and all the green gizmos, but wonder about the applicability to real life situations. Particularly as we learn how important location and density are to energy conservation and real
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Zeppelin Hangar Has Monster Green Roof
While investment in infrastructure in America disappears, in China they are reaching for the sky with Zeppelins and building hangars to house them. OPEN Architecture designed this one, which has " a prefabricated
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Quote of the Day: Lisa Rochon on Architect Barbie's Dream House
My favourite entry in the Architect Barbie Dream House competition didn't win, but hey, it is a people's choice award, so it is hard to criticize the jurors. That didn't stop Globe and Mail architectural critic Lisa Rochon, who asks "Oh, Barbie. You
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Rethinking The Food Label To "Inspire Food Literacy"
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's News21 program and Good Magazine have shortlisted the three finalists in a competition to design a better food label. They "asked for designs that were informative, instructive and
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HummerHaus Recycles Hummers Into Housing
After World War II, Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House was seen as an alternative product for the factories and workers who were no longer building airplanes; it used much of the same materials and technologies.
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Help Choose The Winning Architect Barbie Dream House
When I wrote about Architect Barbie I complained bitterly about her house, sort of cross between Karim Rashid and Charles Addams. The folks at the American Institute of Architects didn't think much of it either, and having a lot of time on their hands
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eCORRE Complex Made From Two Memes Of The Moment: Shipping Containers and Green Roofs
I am late to the party on this one, already seen on Inhabitat and Gizmag, because it has taken me some time to figure out how it actually works. It's called the eCORRE, for Environmental Center
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Awesome Giant Wooden Comb As Bike Rack By Popup Design
Whether they rotate vertically, loop and twist or arch, the concept of bike racks as fixtures of public art is here to stay. In an effort to promote bike-friendliness in Roanoke, VA, the city is getting its very own piece of
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Celebration of British Culture at the Festival of Britain
The original Festival of Britain in 1951 was a huge celebration of British culture, design, art, science and ingenuity. It happened at a time when Britain began to emerge from the austerity of post-war years and heralded a new and
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Dwell on Design's Modern World Award Winners
Yves Behar's Jambox wireless speaker, a Public lightweight bike, prefab playhouse kit, paper tables, a Coke bottle chair, and 20 other product designs got Dwell magazine's stamp of
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Crazy Mobile Cooking Ideas From the Electrolux Competition
For the last nine years the big European appliance company, Electrolux, has run design competitions for industrial design students that have yielded remarkable results.
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Passive House Design from Canada Wins Competition For New Orleans
The Passivhaus (now called Passive House in North America) standard is usually thought of as a response to temperate or cold conditions, given its German origin. Certainly its annual heating energy limits are not going to
