September 4, 2015
Hacked space by Santiago Cirugeda. Via Al Jazeera.
Guerrilla architecture is a social movement aimed at bringing awareness and responsibility to urban housing design. It’s focused on reclaiming and utilizing underused space that is available to everyone. Like their guerrilla … Read More...
Category: Creating
Tags: architecture, guerrilla architecture, urban hacktivism, urban housing
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September 2, 2015
Parisian Architect Stéphane Malka addresses the economic inequities inherent in urbanization in a concept that re-imagines how people might live in today’s mobile world–in this case, hanging off the side of the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris.
Malka thinks people … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
Tags: architecture, Stéphane Malka, urban spaces
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August 20, 2015
Italian Gianluca Pelizza’s Desert Veil, a wood-framed cube roofed with olive branches.
The Kehilla Residential Programme’s annual Sukkahville Design Competition invites architects, students, artists, builders and design professionals to submit design proposals for the design and construction of a contemporary … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
Tags: architecture, contemporary architecture, design competitions, Sukkah, Sukkot
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June 26, 2015
Rising 41 feet up and four floors high, designer Paul Cocksedge’s Living Staircase floats within the space like a soaring indoor garden.
The steel and American white oak spiral staircase forms the internal nucleus of London’s Ampersand building in the … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Indoor Gardening
Tags: architecture, green desing, indoor gardens, planted staircase, sustainable
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November 19, 2014
When iconic French architect Jean Nouvel and his botanist and landscape “artist” colleague and friend Patrick Blanc collaborate, you can expect a novel and cutting edge statement combining the best of their respective talents with the latest in green technologies, … Read More...
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: architecture, Ateliers, Biomimicry, CTBUH, Heliostat, Hydroponics, Jean Nouvel, sustainability, sustainable architecture, sustainable design, urban green
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August 18, 2014
Sometimes you see a product, structure, or piece of technology that makes you realize you are living in the future you imagined as a child. The Tetra Shed is one of those things.
Hailing from the UK, this modular garden … Read More...
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: architecture, Customizable Architecture, garden office, garden shed, gardens, modern design, Modular Structures, Tetra Shed
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April 29, 2014
What is this impossibly interesting object? It is the Street Football Seat Ball designed by Guatemala’s FÁBRICA, made from repurposed soccer balls. Of course it looks extremely cool– but I promise you, the aesthetics are only the beginning of … Read More...
Category: Creating, Finding, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Lifestyle, Outdoor Furniture, Reclaimed & Recycled
Tags: architecture, BlogTourNYC, design, FÁBRICA, NY Design Week, recycled, repurposed, sustainable design, Wanted Design
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November 17, 2012
As multifunctional concepts are great for small spaces, we love how the Revolve Window extends the interior space, enables easy transport of plants from indoors to outdoors, and at the same time functions as a decorative window box.
On what … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding
Tags: architecture, container garden, design competitions, design concepts, IMM Cologne, indoor plants, outdoor plants, planters, Spark Awards, window box
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December 30, 2011
At the intersection of architecture and art, architects Cheung and Vogl have designed a concept for a two-story concrete combination parking lot, street art museum, and public green space.
Shinjuku Gardens, in Tokyo, would feature layered soft-clad grass walls to … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Vertical Gardens
Tags: architecture, green spaces, Green Walls, Japan, landscape architecture, urbanism
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