Rehabilitating an abandoned structure is really rewarding to the people around it and to the environment as well. James Corner Field Operations has managed to rehabilitate an abandoned elevated railway and resulted it into a beautiful 1.5-mile long park in New York. The said remodeled freight railway houses beautiful plants, benches and more that surely …
Wind turbines are known to be huge and designed for commercial purposes. MAS-Students 0809 of the caad chair at ETHÂ give chance to household owners who wanted to save money from their energy usage and of course save the environment as well with his wind turbine design called the Fidu Rotor. The Fidu Rotor is …
French Architect and Designer Paul Coudamy proudly present his recent project to Igreenspot. The project was for a client Bearstech, a computer company wherein he uses collected reused wood to create his client’s office space. Details From Paul Coudamy: Bears Cave by paul Coudamy Project : design of an internet hosting office. Client : Bearstech …
I was quite amazed of this solar powered furniture making machine called The Idea of a Tree by Mischer’ Traxler. Each product has its shape and color formed and determined depending on the amount of sunlight by the time certain product is manufactured. The machine works out by drawing a thread through a tank with …
With the continuous growth of population, food sources are shortening and there might be a tendency of starvation in the coming 2060, according to professors Dickson Despommier and Eric Ellingsen. As part of the advanced solution to the foreseen problem, The Vertical Farm Project that includes the Pyramid Farm was created. This advanced farming technique …
Another green action in the architectural world has been initiated by Studio 505 as they designed the former CUB Brewery site in Melbourne, Australia into a carbon-neutral office for Grocon. The said office will be having a green roof collecting rainwater. It will also be having a façade of living edge perimeter planters, fixed shading …
Eco-friendly, sustainable, solar powered and so on are just a few and probably the most common features of an eco-friendly architecture. However, the Vertical Park is entirely different and I must say it stands out amongst them. Being an eco-friendly stackable skyscraper is new to me. It might be existing way back then but I …
Living the eco-friendly lifestyle is somewhat hard to imagine. But, that was way before when only a few cares for the environment. Today, more and more are becoming aware of how they abuse the environment and want to help restoring it. Designers come up with numerous eco-friendly furniture to clothing to home décor and now …
Designed by Thomas Rau of RAU, the World Wide Fund for Nature head quarters in Netherlands has claimed to be the first zero carbon building in the world. The building is eco-friendly not only of it being the zero carbon but also with the people behind using it and how it was being used. Aside …
In preparation for the 2009 World Games in July, a new solar powered stadium is built in Taiwan. Designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, the stadium has 8,844 solar panels installed on the roof that is enough to power the stadiums 3,300 lights and two giant television screens. The building has the ability to generate …
