Jan 25, 2012

If you could create your dream home, your own private fortress of solitude, what would it look like? Big, small, colourful, clinical, the choice is yours. With all the ideas running through your head, it’s probably quite difficult to pinpoint exactly what you want and what you’d like to put in there. Take a look at the houses below to give you an...

Apr 5, 2011

The Urban Tree project was designed by Israel’s award winning Geotectura studio. Founded by Joseph Cory, Geotectura merges landscapes and architecture with sustainability, cost reducing technologies, and environmental responsibility. The Urban Tree contains greenhouse structures on floating cubes that keep a minimal footprint on the ground, branching out...

Mar 8, 2011

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Architecture Award Winner 2011 Open Air Library, Magdeburg, Germany. By Karo Architekten. The development of the Open Air Library began five years ago when the community of Magdeburg staged an intervention in an abandoned district that formally housed a public library. A 1:1 scale model was developed using beer crates and...

Jan 17, 2011

We all gaze upon the humble traffic light nearly every time we climb into a car and take a journey, whether it’s down the street for a jug of milk or across the country for a great adventure. Around the world, the design is remarkably standardized, deviating only a little from one continent to the next. But is the familiar design really the best design? Or is...

Dec 20, 2010

Strata SE1 (also informally known as The Razor) is a 148-metre, 43 storey, 408 flat skyscraper in London, England. It is the first building in the world to incorporate wind turbines within its structure. The three nine-metre wind turbines at the top of the building are rated at 19 kW each and are anticipated to produce 50MWh of electricity per year. They are...

Dec 2, 2010

The Volkswagen  Microbus is a classic – even to those of us born after its time. Arguably unlike the newly remade Beetle, this remake of a VW classic is remarkably true to the original on the outside – but on the inside it is a bio-diesel hybrid stuffed full of high tech gadgetry and eco-friendly innovations. Named after its designer, the Verdier is not...