School buses that are already destined to be on the scrap yard already. With the buses sent over everyday, sculpture Christopher Fennell give a new life to these suppose to be discarded buses and resulted into a wonderful yellow bus shelter. By carefully choosing a part of the three scrapped buses, Chris has welded them …
Clean drinking water has always been a problem to some parts of the world and to produce clean drinking water requires some energy that will definitely costs us a lot. The Synchronicity Island by Jakub Szczeany of Centrala is definitely a great answer. Synchronicity is a floating island that purifies river waters with the use …
Eco-friendly architectures are now sprouting like mushroom with the aim to protect and save the environment. Green people from KITA Design has just completed the Kita Haus that is made from English chestnut and recycled plastic milk. This eco-friendly structure has two pods wherein one of the pods will work as a classroom and the …
Normally, when people see falling trees, they tend to have it cut and use the wood it produces, but not the owner of the falling 40-year old pine tree at the rear of Brentwood, Los Angeles. When the pine tree fell, he just leaves it that way giving the tree a chance to revive itself …
Sustainability is now everywhere. With the vast growth of concern and awareness in saving the environment, more and more designers and now inclined into designed sustainable or environment friendly designs. The sustainable market by Yarel Yair is another energy saving design that will help save the environment and the community as well. This zero-emission design …
Berlin is known to be an expensive city and people should spend their money wisely if they want to be in Berlin longer. Housing in Berlin is expensive as well, which is why enterprising artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset decided to purchase a former water pumping station in the suburb of Neukolln just three …
Building modern and elegant homes don’t need to be big, expensive, and of first hand materials. Built in Jakarta Indonesia by SUB Studio, the Grey House is a small 108 square meter house that was built at a tight budget of $15,000. The architects have successfully built the house by exploring the materials and reducing …
Green architecture has now really becoming a focus not only to modern houses and elegant architecture but also with the religious architecture as well. The Field Chapel is a wonderful retreat house built by the student from IITCA or Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture together with Ecker Architekten. The structure was entirely made …
Another nice and eco-friendly solar home was designed for Solar Decathlon 2009. This time around, it is a well-designed solar home from team Germany. Currently placed at third, team Germany’s solar home has four simple modules making the house easy to construct. This stylish and energy saving home comes with a multi-use room located at …
Built to sustain the extreme climate of Northern Canada, the Team Ontario, BC had designed the North House, which is currently in 4th place for the Solar Decathlon 2009 in Washington DC. The house is a solar powered home that has high attention in insulation and glazing system that is in-charge of the houses’ passive …
