Tag: Design Competitions - Page 8
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Help Design, Build an Ultra-Low Footprint Apartment: The LifeEdited Project (Slideshow)
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily on less money with less space, less stuff and less waste -- but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited."
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Help Design, Build an Ultra-Low Footprint Apartment: The LifeEdited Project
TreeHugger Founder's New Project: LifeEdited, A Tiny, Ultragreen Renovation Graham Hill writes: "I've been pretty busy over the past six years. I've done an OK job of living in a green manner and haven't worried too much about it, considering my day job
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Ride in Comfort On The City Recumbent
I worry about the name "City Recumbent;" I wonder if recumbent bikes
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Would A Curvy Crosswalk Reduce Accidents?
We always say that streets are for people, but nobody works very hard to make them comfortable for people rather than cars. After all, cars get curved corners to make it easier to get around but humans, they have to make sharp right angles. Jae Min Lim
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HP Competition Winner Has Rooftop Farms, Plugin Units
The HP Skyline 2020 competition "outlined fresh visual imaginations for the skyline discarding preconceived notions" and "allowed students and professionals to partner and elucidate their visions and designs that would change the
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LifeEdited: With Transformer Furniture, You Can Party Like It's 1499
From An Illustrated History of Furniture, Frederick Litchfield: Dining table made of boards and trestles TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less
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YouGoods Eco-Invention Contest Draws to a Close: Cast Your Vote for the Winner Today!
Earlier this month, we told you about UncommonGoods' open design contest, looking for the next great eco-friendly invention. This week, the judges of the YouGoods contest, including TreeHugger founder Graham Hill, chose three finalists, based on the
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Raw Meets Industrial in RAWtation by Adi Zaffran Weisler
Wood and plastic may seem irreconcilable at first glance, but in Israeli designer Adi Zaffran Weisler's furniture series RAWtation, the raw n' rustic meets moulded, industrial forms in a simply striking set of
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Men: Pee And Wash In The Same Fixture!
Lenny Bruce would have had such fun with this, but this just makes so much sense, a sink built on top of a urinal! And designer Yeongwoo Kim has made it look good, too. The theoretical sequence is that you use the urinal, then wash your hands and the
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R-House in Syracuse Can Be Heated With A Hair Dryer
Passive House, or Passivhaus design is finally becoming really active in North America, and is popping up in communities across the country. Just recently we showed a traditional one in Oregon, but are back to form with the R-House, the winner of a
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Tiny Transformer Kitchen Occupies Less Than 10 Square Feet When Closed
The challenge in the "1, 2, 3... easy kitchen!" competition shown in Designboom was to design a kitchen that occupied less than 1 square meter (about 10 square feet). Kristin Laass and Norman Ebelt of burg giebichenstein: hochschule fur kunst und
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Engineers Design Prize-Winning Insect Hotel For London Parks
Bonnie recently covered the five shortlisted designs in the Beyond the Hive Competition. Designers were challenged to create " an ecologically sustainable and creative insect habitat."
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Cycling with Style Promotes New Bicycle Schemes in London
London's Transport Museum held a competition: asking designers and artists to create posters to push cycling and all its benefits. We know what they are: cleaner environment,
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Vanity Fair's World Architecture Survey: Where's The Green?
When I entered architecture school, a charming and brilliant Wayne Lawson taught a wonderful survey course on culture and communication. It was a hot couple of years at the University of Toronto (now John
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Ahoy Matey, Shed Of The Year Competition Winner Announced
There is the Pritzker, the Prix de Rome, the RIBA and the AIA awards, and then there is the Shed of the Year prize, honouring the best of this "cornerstone of British culture." I have had the honour of being a judge three years running, and my top
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Lumenhaus From Virginia Tech Wins Solar Decathlon Europe
inhabitat cheers USA! USA! as Virginia Tech wins the Solar Decathlon over some tough competition. It is a surprising win for a number of reasons; the unit was in the Solar Decathlon 2009 and did not win there. To my eye, it was
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University of Florida's Entry At Solar Decathlon Mixes Old Ideas, New Technology
We always say that one of the ways we can design new buildings to use a lot less energy is to design them like old buildings, that Everything New is Old Again, particularly when it comes to
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Gorgeous Woodsy Finnish Entry in Solar Decathlon Wins First Prize For Architecture
Team Finland hails from Aalto University, and Alvar Aalto would be proud of this of this stunning little pile of lumber. It's passively heated and designed for the cold and dark Finnish climate, with solar hot water collectors and photovoltaics on the
