We have here a great eco-friendly submission from the Netherland based designer Lindey Cafsia called the Chair made of Tubes.The name is derived of the appearance the chair and how it is made, namely by combining cardboard tubes one to another. O + O = OO. The tubes are re-used and they are originally from …
Category: Architecture
Pop Up By Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner
Carrying your office physically anywhere is something new at least to some of us. The Pop Up is another green design that will allow everybody to conduct office everywhere the feel like doing. The pop up is made of giant cardboard of 94 x 275 x 200 cm in size and was installed by Liddy …
Solar Powered International Design Center By LIN
Sustainable and eco-friendly structures are now built almost everywhere in the world, as more and more architects and designers are into sustainable architectures. Located in Saint-Eienne, France, the International Design Centery by LIN is another astounding eco-friendly structure that gets is power from solar energy. The building will be the starting point for the world’s …
Sozawe By NL Architects
Green architecture has now becoming widespread to almost every corner of the world. The Sozawe by NL Architects is just another wonder addition to the eco-friendly building we have today. Located in Groningen City, the Sozawe building has office spaces, large interior public space, and 215 parking spaces.The building’s concrete floor cools the building during …
The Bamboo Greenhouse By Nobuhiro Hirai And Hirohide Kobayashiand
Japanese Nobuhiro Hirai and Hirohide Kobayashiand of Koyoto University, together with Toshiharu Nakagawa of Nakagawa Bamboo Workshop were hailed as the winners in the recent Japan Good Design Award 09 with their winning design, the Bamboo Greenhouse. Designed to response the need for a greenhouse for raising and managing plants, the Bamboo Greenhouse has a …
The Kurilpa Bridge By Cox Architects
Hailed as the longest footbridge of its kind, the Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane Australia is an eco-friendly structure designed by the Cox Architecture, and Australian firm. This bridge has a length of 470 meters and features a LED lighting system making it an eco-friendly one. Another green feature of this long bridge is it 84 …
Wind Farm Celebration Center By Michael Jantzen
Various architects and designers seem to be focusing on different eco-friendly structures nowadays. The Wind Farm Celebration is just another mere example. Proposed by an internationally known artist and designer Michael Jantzen, the Wind Farm Celebration is a structure that is powered by a wind turbine. Within the perimeter of the central tower that supports …
The Idea House By Broadway Malyan
Designed for Sime Darby Property, the Idea House is South East Asia’s first carbon zero residence. The Idea House has prefabricated modules that save up the construction cost and speed up the process at the same time. The modules also allow easy deconstruction at the end of the house’s useful life.Aside from being pre-fabricated, the …
The Cloud By Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Shortlisted as one of the entries for a competition in building a tourist attraction that will create a lasting legacy in the Olympic Park in London, The Cloud is a 400 fee-tall mesh tower. It is topped with solar powered plastic bubbles that are responsible for showing images and data like the weather information, the …
WNW Bar By Vo Trang Nghia Co. Ltd
Another great architecture has been built in Vietnam. With the aim to save from the construction cost, the WNW or Wind and Water Bar by Vo Trang Nghia Co. Ltd., is constructed using low cost materials. Since the place where the WNW located is prone to flood, the WNW bar is also easy to construct …