Image Credit. Joan Rojeski Joan Rojeski was back at Valencia Design Week this year, although it turns out that Joan Rojeski is not a person or designer for that matter, but fiction. The Valencia-based designers have made a beautiful short film about their nature-loving character Joan Rojeski who goes to the city to become a designer.
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Images Credit NEAPO Normally, prefabricated buildings are limited by the rules of the road; in this case, the Finnish prefabber NEAPO built the entire building in a shipyard and delivered it by barge to a site on Hirvensalo island near Turku, Finland. NEAPO normally builds more conventionally sized modules out of FIXCEL, a load-bearing steel honeycomb panel that can carry weights equivalent to a 15 storey tower Image credit: Gehrlicher Solar From a 2MW solar array at FedEx Field to the world’s largest solar stadium , the idea of incorporating clean energy—and solar power in particular—into major sporting arenas is nothing new. But now it’s being taken to a whole .. Images credit BDP architects Proof that big boys can still have fun playing with boxes; BDP , the second biggest architectural firm in the UK has built a temporary installation of “music boxes” for the Manchester International Festival. … Read the full story on TreeHugger Images credit i-house One of the lessons in the first wave of modern prefab, almost a decade ago now, was that it was easy to get excited about small green designs, but you had to have a place to put them. The same issue is facing the current pioneers in the tiny to not-so-big house movements; they don’t fit in conventional developments. photo: NASA ICE / CC BY Apropos of Arctic sea ice melting on track to set a new record low this year: There’s some new research on how quickly we might see an entirely ice-free summer . Scientists from the National Center for Atmo.. photo: McKay Savage / CC BY Agri-giant Monsanto may be forced to take one on the chin in India: The nation’s first genetically modified food crop, a variety of eggplant known at Bt brinjal , has sucked its Big Ag developers into court. Monsanto, Images credit BoxPark BoxPark is “the world’s first pop-up shopping mall”, being built at the Shoreditch High Street station in London. It’s designed by Waugh Thistleton , known to TreeHuggers for their Nine Storey Apartment Built Of Wood in Nine Weeks By Four Workers Photo: B. Alter The original Festival of Britain in 1951 was a huge celebration of British culture, design, art, science and ingenuity. |
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