When the Chicago Spire will be competed on 2012, this high-rise building of 2000 feet high will be the second tallest building in the world. The building construction begun in 2007 and it has 150 floors with 81,470 square meter floor area. The buildingʼs 1,200 units can be used as a hotel, office and residential. …
Category: Design and Concept
Electric Amphibious SUV Concept
Electric amphibious SUV is an environment friendly amphibious vehicle that can be employed by diverse groups, but the designer focused on active journalist as its main users. This vehicle can be used in making documentary films and environmental activities in the future. Designed by Young-jin Lee from South Korea, this electric amphibious SUV is set …
Lilypads – Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees
The Lilypad is build by Vincent Callebaut that serves as a luxurious future retreat for 50,000 inhabitants seeking for refuge due to rising waters caused by global warming. This floating ecopolis structure is a dramatic display of the most modern and futuristic green innovations. Callebaut called the Lilypad as a “Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees†…
Eclipse Concept Phone with Solar Skin
Eclipse Intuit Phone Love Sun has all the basic stuff that we need and expect from a mobile phone. Designed by Eddie Goh, it has a 5-megapixel camera and built-in software for editing and uploading photos into a photo album. It has a great large touch screen display and a slide-out touch keyboard with tactile …
Embryo is Two-Seater Eco Friendly Urban Vehicle Concept
Due to increasing shortage of parking space, Goran Marinkovic has come out with a car called the Embryo. A two-seater eco friendly urban vehicle, powered by fuel cells that uses clean fuels like hydrogen. Made of recyclable aluminum, this car is truly ecological. Most of the interior elements are made of silicon materials. It has …
Ronn Scorpion Hydrogen Sports Car Concept
The Scorpion sports car is a high-end hydrogen-gasoline car from RMC or Ronn Motor Company from Texas. The car runs in a 30-40 percent blend of hydrogen and gasoline. The Scorpion has an internal combustion engine that runs in both hydrogen and gasoline, and has 40 highway miles per gallon. Its difference from the other …
Eco-Luxury Resort at Caribbean Island 2009
A new five-star resort for Star Island in the Bahamas will be the new destination for eco-friendly traveler. The resortʼs energy is self-sufficient with their power coming from solar, wind and micro-hydro generators. Inside the resort, travelers can see LED lighting and geothermal HVAC, and they have the rainwater harvesting system that provides water for …
Burj Al-Taqa Will Generate 100% of Its Energy Needs with Wind and Solar Power
Burj Al-Taqa, self-sufficient skyscraper that produces 100% of its own power is a high rise building to be built in Dubai. It will be going to have a huge wind turbine on its roof of 197 feet in diameter, and solar cell arrays of 161,459 square feet in size. Burj al-taqa will be designed in …
Future Human-Powered Gymnasium
If this is gonna be our future gymnasium, than I will definitely spend more time there … just look at the view, wow … This is not just ordinary gym, this is human-powered gymnasium, it moves on the waves because of your sweat and muscle flexing energy, pretty futuristic imagination. Often the average urbanite exercising …
Czeers MK1 Luxury Solar-Powered Boat
Czeers MK1 is a solar powered boat with semi custom electrical motor that can hit 30 knots. Czeers MK1 is developed by Dutch company Czeers Solarboats with 3 important requirements : solar power, high-performance, and stunning looks. The boat features photovoltaic cells on almost all horizontal surfaces and an LCD touch-screen control system. It measures …
