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Rent-A-Goat To Mow Your Lawn

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Urban farming has been all the rage, but what happens when you throw some multi-functionalism into the mix? How about goat rentals for mowing your lawn? San Francisco’s City Grazing has been keeping a herd of 50 goats to manage the growth in their pasture.

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Design In Helsinki — Turn Table: An Urban Farm And Restaurant In The Middle Of The City

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Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 wouldn’t be complete without an urban farm. Urban agriculture is hotter than hot these days, and although the majority of urban farming projects aren’t gonna solve any food-related problems, the idea of re-using vacant urban spaces for traditional country-side activities is appealing. During our Helsinki visit, two weeks ago, we [...]

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#IABR — Thousand Rain Gardens

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The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam’s Smart Cities competition received 80 entries by students and young researchers from across the globe. These projects represented the future of cities through smarter technology application in areas such as distribution, energy, mobility, and infrastructure. The Smart Cities Biennial Award ceremony, held at the end of this past April, announced the Sendai [...]

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How The City Became A Planter

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Over the last years we stumbled upon many initiatives that focus on turning small urban objects into pretty micro gardens. It has even become pretty hard to think about an urban object that has not yet been transformed into a planter. Not only bigger objects like houses, office buildings, trucks, trains and even buses need [...]

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Flying Gardens

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An overwhelming history of sky design does not exist. Ancient Romans and Greeks never had the technical possibilities to really redesign the big space around us. As modern society we have been designing more or less anything over the past few decades, and now we take it to the next level: the impossible. How to design the sky? Some great and inspiring initiatives that aim to create a new experience of the ‘boring’ sky take place last years. Are we collectively sick of the blue sky decorated with natural, white clouds? Do we prefer the everlasting rainbow, northern light forever, artificial green clouds or pixel swarms as displays?

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Designing New York's E-Waste Bin

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We keep staying on the topic of garbage. New York is the first US city to unfold a municipal e-waste recycling programme. The kick-off is planned to be next year. New York-based Valiant Technology launched a competition called ‘Design The 4th Bin’, to invite creative people to come up with bright design ideas for the [...]

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Design  Green

Eco-Friendly Eye Candy

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Look what we’ve got here. Greenhouse, the first eco-friendly nightclub of the United States, recently opened its doors in New York City. Antonio Di Oronzo of Bluarch Architecture designed a two-level 6,000 square foot club, lounge and event space entirely built from recycled or recyclable materials. Greenhouse is the first nightclub in the US to receive an official certification by the United States Green Buildings Council for its ecological character.

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Gummo’s Recycled Office

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Interior architects of i29 designed the new temporary office of Amsterdam-based advertising agency Gummo using the slogan ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’. The designers collected and bought old furniture and accessories at markets and in second hand stores. In order to create a strong effect, they painted them all grey. Small budget, big result.

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