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mmmm’s Offbeat Meeting Bowls Promote Community and Chatter in Times Square
What to do when all of the benches in NYC are occupied? Try taking a seat in a Meeting Bowl in Times Square! The Times Square Alliance and the Spanish collaborative mmmm took the most hectic...
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Gates Foundation Offers $100,000 For Next Generation Condom Design
Last year, the Gates Foundation held a competition to redesign the toilet . Turning its sights from sanitation to overpopulation, the nonprofit has now announced a challenge to reinvent the condom ....
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Issey Miyake Designs Sustainable Lighting Sculptures Made from Recycled...
Many of you may already recognize this stunning lighting collection, but few realize the conceptual research and green experimentation that went into developing the IN-EI ISSEY MIYAKE project....
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Menthol Architects’ Plant-Covered Bicycle Parking Pod also Doubles as a City...
‘Cars versus bikes’ is an ongoing saga playing out in cities all over the world as riders and drivers fight for road and parking space. Menthol Architects tackles the problem of parking chaos with...
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Reshtki turns unwanted “trash” into comfortable and stylish urban furniture
Where some may only see trash, Reshtki sees opportunity. Founded by Sara Podwysocka and Maria Ostrowska, the Polish design studio specializes in breathing new life into found materials . In their...
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The solar-powered sign of the future can be installed with just four bolts
The Soofa Sign uses technology to bring real-time information to city dwellers. With its elegant design, energy-saving properties and light environmental footprint , the sign is a cinch to install –...
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Stuart Lombard has a mission: to reduce people’s carbon footprints while saving money. He found that heating and cooling made up the bulk of utility costs and searched to find a better way to monitor...
View ArticleKOGAA creates an energy self-sufficient City Cell in response to climate change
Galvanized by the growing debate on climate change , Brno-based KOGAA Architectural Studio and NEXT Institute Research Platform have teamed up to create the City Cell Prototype (CCP), a pop-up...
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