Tag: Un-Treehugger

Quebec architects propose a 48-storey tower in a forest, "a new relationship between humans and their natural habitat."

It has a front end higher than me, but anyone with a driver's licence can just walk into the dealer and buy one.

One was recently installed at an Ohio university. Is this the message one wants to give to students there?

This might be the greatest transportation innovation of the millennium.

Silly names stand out and create engagement, but it can backfire.

Abimis offers refrigerated drawers and heated tops. Does anyone need this?

You definitely want this in the back of your Escalade.

Mies van der Rohe famously said "less is more"; Morris Lapidus said "Too much is never enough." I don't know which describes this house.

It isn't frugal, it comes in disposable plastic, it takes what was a traditional northern craft and turns it into mass-produced identical spheres with no individuality. Words fail.

Can't use your cellphone in the car to order your food? Don't worry, you can play with your dashboard instead.

But hey, cyclists and pedestrians, don't forget the high viz!

The DDD era (Dangerous Dip Distraction) is over. Now you can dip and drive.

It is hard to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness when there is so much noise.

It's sustainable!

Steel boxes make the perfect house for the Joshua Tree desert environment.

It's a bag made of toxic nonslip chemicals that lets you drop your sandwich into a toaster.

I prefer waffles but may have to eat my words. And pancakes.

Why do people do this kind of thing?