Marina And Beach Towers: U.A.E.’s Eco-tower By Oppenheim

U.A.E. has been known of its tall and modern skyscrapers and today, this known city also joins the other cities around the world in building not only tall and modern buildings but also buildings that will not benefit its residents but the environment as well. The Marina and Beach Towers by Oppenheim is a modern …

WER: An Eco-Packaging For Men’s Hygiene

Eco packaging focuses on using cardboard or limiting its materials use. Student designer Alexandre Michaud does it in a different way. He had developed the WER, an eco friendly packaging for men’s hygiene. One packaging has the ability to hold two products particularly the men’s gel in one side and the moisturizer for men on …

The Milly Film: The Vegetized Structure

Keeping our home green can be easily achievable in so many ways. The Milly Film by Samyn and Partners is an eco-friendly structure designed to save on energy usage. The Milly Film is a vegetalized wherein the vegetation provides enough temperature needed whatever the weather maybe. The vegetalized façade served as the structure’s insulation thus, …

City Car: A Zero Emission Electric Car Concept

Sooner or later, parking and carbon emission will never be a problem anymore. With the numerous eco-friendly car concepts we have today, air pollution and parking spaces will never be a problem if they come into fruition. One of the great concepts we have right now is Smart Cities’ City Car electric automobile. This battery-electric …

NeatNests: Modern And Eco Bird Houses

Caring for our environment does not end with recycling things, using less energy and produce less to zero carbon, and more. Caring for our environment also means caring for the animals around us like our pets particularly the endangered ones. The NeatNests is an eco-friendly birdhouse that will not only take care of our environment …

Canada Pavilion: The Biggest At Shanghai Expo 2010 That Considers Environmental Protection

Architects and their structure designs are now getting friendly with the environment, which is much favorable compared to those who built elegant and eye-catching structures that do not do well to the environment in return. The Canada Pavilion is a structure built by SNC-lavalin Inc., a Canadian engineering and construction company. Being the biggest that …

The Water Tower: An Eco-friendly Skyscraper

Water sources are diminishing each day and will soon vanish if we will not make a move in saving the environment and eventually our water resources. An entry to the 2010 Skyscraper competition by Evolo called the Water Tower can possibly the answer to our worries. This skyscraper has the ability to pump water from …

The Cardboard Tower: A Great Green Architecture

When we hear of tower, concrete materials instantly registered into our minds. However, designers from Institut fuer Konstruktion und Gestaltung (KoGe) have developed an eco-friendly tower for the Carton Plein exhibition in Paris made entirely of cardboard. With a height of 10 meters, the cardboard tower uses the simple folding principle. The reason behind the …

Be A Green Techie With The Cardboard Laptop Case

Today, generic laptop cases, bags, and sleeves are popping out in the market almost every now and then. However, none of them are eco-friendly enough for daily use but not the Corrugated Cardboard Laptop Case by Giles Miller. Will be presented at London’s Design exhibit this fall, the corrugated cardboard laptop case is 100% recycled …

Flicker: Packs Things And Lights Up Rooms

Packaging materials are generally destined to be on our landfills after every use, which is eventually not a good idea for the environments. With the aim to help save the earth, designer Randy Chiang has created the Flicker, a packaging designed that allows users to recycle and use it as a lamp. The Flicker can …