Tag Archives: green

Book Review: Spacecraft 2, Part 2

Last Friday I paid attention to Spacecraft 2 by showcasing some of the more than 150 projects covered in the book. Under the slogan ‘more fleeting architecture…

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Book Review: Spacecraft 2

In 2007 we fell in love with Spacecraft, a fantastic book published by Gestalten which presents inspiring “projects that meet the changing spatial needs…

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It Only Happens When It Rains

There’s nothing new about guerrilla advertising, but this is quite special and pretty pop-up as well. Amsterdam-based advertising and design office MISTERWILSON invented a guerrilla campaigning strategy depending…

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Opening Supply Chains

Sourcemap is an open source project about where things come from. As you know, plenty of products consist of many, many different components coming from all kinds of…

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Kitchen Farming By Philips

Philips is busy rolling out interesting new concepts related to the future of food production. Their so-called Biotower is such an idea. This new kitchen installation…

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The Origin Of Our Food

UK-based designer James Reynolds recently came up with a brilliant idea to make consumers aware of the origin of their supermarket food by letting them directly…

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San Francisco’s Street Park Plan

Recently heard about a plan by the San Francisco Parks Trust that aims to reclaim so-called ‘unaccepted streets’ as public parks. The programme’s goal is to…

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Naturmobil: the Horse Reinvented

Recently I stumbed upon an Iranian green transportation project called the Naturmobil. Described as “the most amazing vehicle so far made in the current millennium”, Naturmobile…

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Can New Media Save the Environment?

Last week we entered our new office located in a villa that is part of the formal Shell laboratory in Amsterdam. As we wanted to have a better…

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Camper on a Bike

This camper bike is a project by artist Kevin Cyr. It’s a functioning sculptural piece, built in April 2008. Kevin describes his one man camper as…

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Foreclosures Become Nature

In case you haven’t heard of the ReBurbia design competition yet, you should definitely check the list of its finalists to grab your portion of instant inspiration. Supported by

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First Floating Homes Enter Amsterdam

Recently the first floating homes have been moved into the harbour of the new island neighbourhood IJburg in Amsterdam. IJburg is a brand new district in the eastern…

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Telok Blangah’s Flying Infrastructure

Singapore’s Telok Blangah Hill Park is an amazing park structure consisting of different landscape types connected through a fly-over-like infrastructure. Within the context of the Weak

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The Green Deal

After a decade of neoliberalism selling off public services, local governments are taking matters into own hands again? For example, Amsterdam and the other shareholders of

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Don’t Unplug While Recharging

A picture, just to show that some things turn positive in this time of economic crisis and global pollution. Walking through London last week, I stumbled upon this great…

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