Tag: Design Competitions - Page 9
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"Emerging Ghana" Wins Open Source House Competition for Local, Modular, and Efficient Design
Last year, Enviu, known for the sustainable dance floor and club, launched the Open Source House project, a platform to share much needed sustainable and affordable housing solutions. The goal of their first competition, in which 3100 architects
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Winner Of BetaCup Challenge isn't A Cup, It's The KarmaCup
A lot of people had doubts about the Betacup Challenge, a competition "in search of a solution to the rampant wastage of unrecyclable paper coffee cups". There are perfectly good solutions out there right now, like
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Electrolux Design Competition Finalists are Just Weird This Year
Every year the Electrolux Design Competition introduces some fascinating concepts into the world of food; sometimes they are even green; this year most of them are just bizarre. Perhaps the prize should be a copy of Michael Pollan's Food Rules; these
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Wonderful Creative Reuse, and Repurposing at Inhabitat's Spring Greening Contest
Back in the day when TreeHugger described itself as the "Green Lifestyle Filter" and covered design like a bamboo fiber blanket, Inhabitat was the little upstart. Five years or so later, they regularly eat our lunch with features like their Spring
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Lessons From Apartment Therapy's Small, Cool Kitchen Competition
Apartment Therapy runs the small, cool contests every year, including one for kitchens; cleverly, they break it into categories including owning (American kitchens where people go nuts) renting (where people have more limited options) and international
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Help Redesign BP's Logo In Greenpeace Competition
Greenpeace in the UK started a wonderfully clever competition to create a new logo for BP in protest of their investment in the Alberta tar sands; events overtook them as the gulf spill became the poster child. And this is the company that was once
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Spectacular Green Roof Installed At Toronto City Hall
When Viljo Revell designed Toronto City Hall back in the sixties, the podium roof was for grand entries; you could drive up the ramp and walk right into the Council Chambers. It never quite worked out that way and was pretty
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How Awesome Bike Parking Facility Could Replace Downtown Parking Lot
Here's a great example of forward-thinking urban planning: a downtown, all-in-one bicycle parking facility that prioritizes human-powered transportation. The competition entry BIKE for
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Care to Air Design Challenge by Levi's
Air-drying clothing is definitely the cheapest, and especially the most eco-friendly way of drying your clothes; no energy or machinery is needed. However, if you live in a small space, a rainy country or simply are a busy (or forgetful) person,
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Compostalooza! A Crowdsourced Composter Competition
Quirky is one of those wonderful ideas that could only exist in this internet age. Inventors and designers with an idea used to struggle in their basements, get taken by agents and marketers and most of their ideas never saw the light of day. I've been
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Young Swedish Firm Designs Bike Palace for Philadelphia
The hot young Swedish firm We Are You came third in a competition to design a new bicycling center in Philadelphia. (They must be really young- entry criteria include only those who graduated later than 2007). Its mission: "to promote bicycling in all
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From Soap Nuts to Solar Lilies: Green Dot's Innovations Awards
The Green Dot Awards threw a reception on Thursday for winners of its biannual honors for innovative environmental projects, products and services. An international group of impressive
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Drop-Dead Gorgeous and Green Architecture: Canada's Governor General Medal Winners (Slideshow)
Every year the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Canada Council give out the Governor General's Awards. She says "The Canadian architects we are honouring have the gift of
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Visions of the Future: Stacked Suburbia and Underwater Cities
93% of Australians live in cities, and they are only going to get more dense. A competition was recently held to find visions of Australia's future, "Designs for Australia's cities 2050+" and many of them are fascinating, such as these towers of
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First Re-Skinning Awards From Zerofootprint
Buildings are responsible for 50% of North America's greenhouse gases; in cities like
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"Portable Housing" Is Really A Vertical Trailer Park
Brazilian Architect Felipe Campolina's Portable Housing does not appear to have made it to the finals of the Evolo 2010 skyscraper competition, but has shown up in Designboom. It is perhaps one of the most revolutionary; Your home becomes portable and
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FreeGreen Who's Next Competition A Goldmine of Great Ideas
The guys who run FreeGreen, the free homeplan website, are so smart; they could have just hired architects to do plans, and would have had to go to the trouble of deciding which architect to hire; instead they write a brief and run a competition. Now
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eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2010 Is Full of Great Ideas
The eVolo Skyscraper competition is always one of the most spectacular speculative ideafests of architecture, with entries from all over the world, this year from 42 different countries. There are always some entries that just pop out, that demonstrate
