Planetary Textiles: Carpeting Rooms with Organic ‘Sea Floor’ Landscapes
These designs convey all of the diverse wonder of coral reefs without having to walk along an actual sea floor (and presumably slice open a foot in the process. Porto-based ...
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Mirrored Minimalism: Glass Retreat Reflects Surrounding Forest Landscape
Cozy on the inside and virtually invisible on the outside, this Modernist home has a reflective facade allowing it to blend in with the natural environment. Meanwhile, residents can enjoy views ...
Panda Power Plant: Shaped Solar Panel Array Forms China’s National Animal
The world's largest solar power-producing nation is showing off its record-setting green energy production through an adorable new array shaped like a giant panda bear, the national animal of ...
Flat-Pack Life Support: NASA’s Inflatable Hydroponic Space Greenhouse
A key development in the quest to create sustainable ecosystems in space, this expandable greenhouse prototype aims to generate essential food and oxygen for long-term astronaut ...
Broken Ground: Poignant Earthquake Memorial at Epicenter in China
A visceral memorial to the nearly 100,000 victims of China's 2008 earthquake, this weathered-steel monument and museum conjures images of cracked Earth left in the wake of a quake. The ...
Brandalism: 600 Fake Ads Call Out Climate Conference Sponsors
In a massive coordinating guerrilla marketing campaign, 82 artists from 19 countries produced and installed 600 convincing false advertisements around Paris, all targeting major polluters and ...
Dirt Cheap: World’s Largest 3D Mud Printer Makes Green Homes
Able to print full-sized structures from mud and clay, this 40-foot-tall 3D printer represents a huge step toward printing affordable housing from free materials. The project was unveiled ...
Marble Earth: 7-Mile Scale Model Timelapse of Our Solar System
Starting with a model planet Earth the size of a marble, a team of filmmakers set out to simulate our entire solar system in motion and capture the results in a compelling short ...
Tree Church: Organic Arbortecture Grown from Living Branches
'Built' may not be the right word for this compelling hybrid of architectural and arborsculptural design (or: arbortecture), featuring a complete chapel with landscaped fences and carefully ...
Interior Land Art: Riverbed Really Runs Through this Museum
Art rarely gets as gritty and real as this, particularly in a gallery, with rocks, earth and water running through simple doors, between white-walled rooms and under uniform interior ...
