Tag: Portugal
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Junkyard car gets resurrected as bike with a mission (video)
Thanks to a creative project underway in Portugal, one retired old clunker has been given a chance to make amends for its polluting past life -- by being resurrected as a bicycle.
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Stair of the Week: Minimalist Gem or Deathtrap?
Minimalism is wonderful, but perhaps sometimes designers can go a bit too far.
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Put a Bird In It! Plastic Water Bottles Recycled into Bird Houses
We could have a debate about whether we need water bottles in the first place, but at least this puts them to use.
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Low Impact Standing Cinema Pops Up in the Streets of Guimarães, Portugal
The latest urban intervention to celebrate the city's status as European Capital of Culture is an unusual film venue for pedestrians.
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Public Fountains Hacked into Colorful Pools in Guimarães, Portugal
The project is one of the winners of a Performance Architecture contest to celebrate Guimarães as European Capital of Culture.
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Nissan LEAFs Turned into Police Cars in Portugal
Portugal's Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) has begun using Nissan LEAF electric cars to do some police work, primarly for the PSP's Safe School program
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Inside the Cork Wars
Harvesting cork is an age-old practice that's come under fire in recent years. Preserving the industry might have some ecological importance ...
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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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Reversing the Desert: How Understanding Water Can Heal Our Earth (Video)
Sustainable, natural water management is not just important for greener communities. It is absolutely central to our survival. Here's how one community is holding back the desert.
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Portuguese Prefab Has Movable, Customizable Walls
Flexible system lets you rearrange interiors according to your needs
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Cyclist Rides from Lisbon to Istanbul to Raise Money for Charity and Promote Climate Awareness
Istanbul's small but dedicated cycling community rallied this week to help an American biker navigate the city's dangerous roads --
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A Travelling Hotel Suite Shows Guests and Hoteliers How to be Green (Photos)
After visiting a hotel in Guadalajara, the centre of Spain, at the beginning of the year, the Travelling Eco Suite is currently spending time in Portugal. The Spanish boutique hotel chain Rusticae got together with the architects from Modulab, Egoin
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Closet House: Big Moving Closet Wall Changes Spaces
It's not exactly Gary Chang's domestic transformer four minutes of wow, but this Portuguese apartment has a giant moving closet that separates the living area from the sleeping, and much like the winner in the LifeEdited
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The Cork House by Arquitectos Anónimos (Photos)
Image Credit: Ivo Canelas Cork has fascinated me for a long time; it's fully renewable and you don't even have to cut the whole tree, it's biodegradable and has curious characteristic such as insulating and shock absorbance. I came across many ugly
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Lisbon Store Interior Built From Cardboard
Fabrizio Gallanti of Abitare, the wonderful Italian design magazine, sends us LOW, a store and bar in Lisbon designed by Pedro Campos Costa and built entirely out of cardboard. The products sold are all made from at least 50% recycled materials, so it
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Cork vs Plastic: How Real Cork is Harvested and Why It Matters
Pablo has already talked about the environmental pros and cons of wine corks, and Kara has also looked at the real versus synthetic cork debate. (On the other hand, when Kristin talked about the recyclable benefits of
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Ryan Frank's New Cork iPad, iPhone, Kindle + Laptop Sleeves for TAPE (Photos)
All images via http://ryanfrank.net/blog Apple fans must be rubbing their hands, and flexing their touch screen ready fingers, in anticipation as the iPad launch date swiftly approaches - April 3rd in the US. Predictably there will be an avalanche of
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Portugal's New Bike Paths are Filled with Poetry (Video)
Beautiful and romantic: a new set of bike paths placed next to the Tejo river, in Lisboa, are filled with phrases from O Guardador de Rebanhos, a poem by famous Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (which he wrote under one of
