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  • X-SEED 4000: World’s tallest tower will house 1 million people READ MORE >
    X-SEED 4000: World’s tallest tower will house 1 million people
    There’s a lot of debate about what the tallest tower in the world currently is. Some say the Taipei 101, at 1671 ft to the tip of it’s spire, is the world’s tallest tower, whereas we might argue that the Sears Tower, at a whopping 1731 ft (and 110 stories), still takes the prize. However, [...]
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    Easy-to-Make DIY Mother’s Day Gifts: FABRIC NECKLACE If your mom likes jewelry, she’ll love wearing a one-of-a-kind fabric necklace made by you. All you need is a few pieces of scrap fabric, some stones and some string and the result is an artsy accessory that you could find selling in a store for much more [...]
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    Rotating Wind Power Tower to begin construction in Dubai
    Dubai has garnered much attention in recent years with a never-ending supply of architectural wonders being built, or proposed, at a head spinning pace. Mostly these towering structures are grand and tall, but some are also green. We’ve covered many an ambitious Dubai skyscraper scheme here at Inhabitat, including David Fisher’s Rotating Tower, but there [...]
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    Top 5 Tiniest Prefab Homes
    1. WEEHOUSE At just $125 per square foot, the WeeHouse is a single module that can be plopped on just about any site, including a rooftop. The basic unit is framed with steel and wood, and comes with tongue-and-groove bamboo flooring, and Ikea cabinetry, kitchens and sinks. Despite what the name implies, don’t let it [...]
  • New Zealand’s Whimsical Yellow Treehouse Restaurant READ MORE >
    New Zealand’s Whimsical Yellow Treehouse Restaurant
    The new Yellow Treehouse Restaurant by New Zealand based Pacific Environments Architects Ltd. (PEL) is a stunning architectural feat perched high above a redwood first. Appearing for all the world like an enormous chrysalis grafted onto a 40-meter-high redwood tree, the project is constructed of plantation poplar slats, redwood balustrading milled at the site, and [...]
  • World’s Largest and Most Expensive Family Home Completed READ MORE >
    World’s Largest and Most Expensive Family Home Completed
    The “Greenest of All Buildings” was recently completed in Mumbai, India and we couldn’t be more appalled. The Antilia house which unveiled its first renderings just over two-years ago has become a frightening reality, egregiously boasting 27 stories at 568 feet high, with a total area of over 398,000 square feet of living space. What [...]
  • Moby1 is a Modern and Mobile Micro-Home for Living in the Wild READ MORE >
    Moby1 is a Modern and Mobile Micro-Home for Living in the Wild
    Moby1‘s stylin’ XTR is a modern spin on the classic 50s Teardrop Trailer, incorporating new technologies and an array of cushy amenities. Lightweight, small, and quite comfortable, these camping trailers include a roof top tent, space for a real mattress, running water and solar panels. Built to be a modern and mobile micro-home, the XTR has [...]
  • Bosco Verticale in Milan Will Be the World’s First Vertical Forest READ MORE >
    Bosco Verticale in Milan Will Be the World’s First Vertical Forest
    The Bosco Verticale is a system that optimizes, recuperates, and produces energy. Covered in plant life, the building aids in balancing the microclimate and in filtering the dust particles contained in the urban environment (Milan is one of the most polluted cities in Europe). The diversity of the plants and their characteristics produce humidity, absorb [...]
  • 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence READ MORE >
    13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
    // While most 13-year-olds spend their free time playing video games or cruising Facebook, one 7th grader was trekking through the woods uncovering a mystery of science. After studying how trees branch in a very specific way, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic [...]
  • New York’s High Line Park in the Sky Opens Today! READ MORE >
    New York’s High Line Park in the Sky Opens Today!
    An elevated park in the sky built on top of the skeleton of an old rail system? It may have sounded impossible only five years ago, but today, the eagerly awaited High Line elevated urban park officially opens for thousands of New Yorkers looking to escape the hubbub of the city below! Here at Inhabitat, [...]
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    World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island
    Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island, which will be the world’s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster’s mountainous 27 million square feet spiraling “city within a building” will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years. The Crystal Island will be [...]
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    A Swirling Green Roof Tops Nanyang Art School in Singapore
    If art school was in our future we might opt to study under, or on top of, the amazing green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. This 5 story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and [...]
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    Iceland’s Gorgeous Passive Solar Hof House
    Deep in the northern chill of Iceland, just outside the arctic circle, the Hof House sits snugly within its landscape. Built on an existing estate, Studio Granada Architects salvaged whatever materials possible from the site to be incorporated into the new residence, converting telegraph poles into a sun screen and basalt pillars into stepping stones. [...]
  • It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No! it’s a… Hostel?! READ MORE >
    It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No! it’s a… Hostel?!
    The Jumbo Hostel is housed within a retrofitted 747-200 situated in the Stockholm-Arlanda airport. The jumbo jet has a long history of service – it was originally built for Singapore Airlines and even flew for Pan Am. It was last operated by Transjet, a now bankrupt Swedish airline. The Jumbo Hostel has 25 rooms with [...]
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    13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
    // While most 13-year-olds spend their free time playing video games or cruising Facebook, one 7th grader was trekking through the woods uncovering a mystery of science. After studying how trees branch in a very specific way, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic [...]
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    A Swirling Green Roof Tops Nanyang Art School in Singapore
    If art school was in our future we might opt to study under, or on top of, the amazing green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. This 5 story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and [...]
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    Top 5 Tiniest Prefab Homes
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    REVERSE GRAFFITI: Street Artists Tag Walls by Scrubbing Them Clean
    When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you’re doing it to create art. Obviously. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. Taking a cue from the “Wash Me” messages scrawled on the back of delivery trucks, they seek out soot [...]
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    New Zealand’s Whimsical Yellow Treehouse Restaurant
    The new Yellow Treehouse Restaurant by New Zealand based Pacific Environments Architects Ltd. (PEL) is a stunning architectural feat perched high above a redwood first. Appearing for all the world like an enormous chrysalis grafted onto a 40-meter-high redwood tree, the project is constructed of plantation poplar slats, redwood balustrading milled at the site, and [...]
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    X-SEED 4000: World’s tallest tower will house 1 million people
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    World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island
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    Spiraling Skyscraper Farms for a Future Manhattan
    As the world’s population continues to skyrocket and cities strain under the increased demand for resources, skyscraper farms offer an inspired approach towards creating sustainable vertical density. One of three finalists in this year’s Evolo Skyscraper Competition Eric Vergne’s Dystopian Farm project envisions a future New York City interspersed with elegantly spiraling biomorphic structures that [...]
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    Excessive packaging is one of our top pet peeves here at Inhabitat, so we were really inspired by this flat cardboard sheet that is capable of conforming to the shape of any object, saving a bundle on wasteful filler. Designed by Patrick Sung, the packaging design concept features triangulated perforations that allow it to bend [...]
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    THE MAGLEV: The Super-powered Magnetic Wind Turbine
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    Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)
    MAKE SAVING TREES SEXY and WIN AN IPAD! Hoping to catch up on your summer reading without the bulk and arborcide associated with books? Well, we’re giving away a brand spanking new iPad and awesome bamboo sketchbook-style DODOcase (worth $549) that will let you do just that. Imagine having all of the powerful capabilities of [...]
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    WIN a Beautiful ANDREA Houseplant Air Purifier (worth $195)!
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    LAST CHANCE to Win a Shiny New Linus Bike and Bike Bag (worth $730) for Earth Day!
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    GIVEAWAY: Enter to Win a Sloan AQUS Grey Water Toilet System That Recycles Your Sink Water (Worth $189)!
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    GIVEAWAY: Win a Year’s Supply of Eco Goodie-Boxes (worth $450) from Lost Crates
    Lost Crates is a unique new care package subscription service that delivers curated goodie-boxes right to your door, and last week, we covered their fabulous new “Eco Crates” geared towards the eco-conscious amongst us (That’s you, right?). If you’re thinking to yourself, “I want an eco care package subscription!”, you’re in luck, because Inhabitat is teaming up [...]
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    Enter to Win a SAYL Task Chair from Herman Miller (Worth $749)!
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    Win a Basket of Method Cleaning Products and a Casabella Cleaning System (Worth $100)!
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    Win an Eco Lounge Chair and the Ultimate Green Summer Picnic Set!
    The Fourth of July is right around the corner, and we can’t wait to spend some time outdoors enjoying backyard barbecues, picnics, and other forms of fun in the sun! To celebrate the season, we’ve teamed up with Branch and Room & Board to offer you the chance to win an awesome picnic set (worth [...]
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    BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY: Win a Solar Powered Package (worth $500)!
    WIN A BACK TO SCHOOL SOLAR BAG BUNDLE WORTH OVER $500! Headed back to school and need some help getting inspired? Inhabitat is here to help! We’ve got an awesome eco back-to-school package that we’ll be giving away to one lucky winner in our Green Back-to-School contest. You may have noticed we ran a contest [...]
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    BACK TO SCHOOL CONTEST: Win An Awesome Solar Book Bag!
    Get ready for school with our back-to-school green giveaway contest! Fall is just around the corner, and students everywhere are getting ready to go back to school. To get into the autumnal school spirit and help our readers green their back-to-school regime, we’re running a contest on this site to give away an AWESOME solar [...]
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    Win a Hymini Portable Wind + Solar Gadget Charger!
    Put green power in the palm of your hand! Having trouble keeping your gadgets charged on a daily basis? Ever had your cellphone run out of juice on you in the middle of an important day? You’re in luck – we’re giving away one incredibly handy HYMini charger so that you’ll have access to clean [...]
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    7 Weird and Wonderful Uses For LED Lighting Technology
    It’s amazing to think that just a few years ago, many people thought of LEDs as nothing more than the tiny red lights in our laser pointers but my, how the times have changed! With more and more people realizing the energy-efficiency benefits of LED lighting, it seems that everything from headlights to TVs to [...]
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    Yuka Yoneda

    6 Green Ways to Ward Off the Winter Blues (a.k.a. Seasonal Affective Disorder)
    WINDOWHOP It’s easy to get depressed when your work schedule has you getting less sun than Edward Cullen (you’ve got the sickly pallor to match and it’s not nearly as sexy on you). If you’re lucky enough to at least have a window in your workspace, open those shades and try to angle your desk [...]
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  • Molly Cotter

    Molly Cotter

    Rock Restaurant is a Tropical Culinary Dream Perched in the Middle of the Ocean
    The restaurant itself can accomodate 14 people and includes a beautiful wrap-around terrace boasting panoramic views of turquoise water. Built entirely with rustic, local materials, the structure easily adapts to the ever changing nature of its environment. When the tide is low, an amazing tiered staircase greets visitors, leading them to the main dining room. Higher [...]
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  • Bridgette Meinhold

    Bridgette Meinhold

    EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Utah Opens Its Striking New Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City
    The Utah Natural History Museum is the caretaker of 1.2 million objects from the fields of paleontology, archeology, ethnology, entomology, vertebrate zoology, mineralogy, botany and malacology. Not only does the museum work to preserve these precious artifacts, it also actively works to study their collection and educate residents, schoolchildren and visitors. The new museum was [...]
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  • Jill Fehrenbacher

    Jill Fehrenbacher

    VIDEO: A Look Back at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show and The Green Cars We Loved
    Last year I had the good fortune to attend the North American International Auto Show (or NAIAS) in Detroit – for the first time – and the timing couldn’t have been more perfect! I had never attended an auto show before, but I’ve heard that most SUV-focused auto shows of years past have not been [...]
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  • Bridgette Meinhold

    Bridgette Meinhold

    Starbucks Opens New Reclamation Drive Thru Made From Recycled Shipping Containers
    Inspiration for the shipping container drive thru came from the company’s use of the containers to ship their coffee and tea from sources around the world. Rather than let the containers wallow after moving their goods, the brilliant minds in Seattle thought to put them to good use and so the Reclamation Drive Thru was [...]
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  • Bridgette Meinhold

    Bridgette Meinhold

    Sparano + Mooney’s Beautiful Kimball Art Center Proposal Takes Inspiration From Aspens
    In this third installment of the Kimball Art Center Transformation proposals, we explore the design by the only local firm of the 5 design teams who presented. Sparano + Mooney, who have worked both locally and internationally, culled their inspiration from the Aspen tree, which is found throughout Utah and is a favorite for its [...]
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    Tafline Laylin

    Nicole Dextras’ Giant Words Made of Ice Depict the Folly of Environmental Destruction
    Dextras capitalizes on the notion that a single word or set of words juxtaposed against a certain backdrop can create a lasting impression that hopefully shifts people’s awareness of their environmental impact. Nothing is quite so striking as the word CONSUME built in ice and decorated with blue food coloring set against an ugly, half-finished [...]
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  • Yuka Yoneda

    Yuka Yoneda

    HOW TO: Make a Recycled Mustache Mirror
    MATERIALS: - A mirror (preferably one you already have) - Fabric paint (we used Tulip non-toxic paint in black) - Mustache templates - A clean, large ziplock bag (you could also use a clean sheet of saran wrap but it’s a little more unwieldy because of its self-stick properties) - A damp towel to wipe [...]
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    Yuka Yoneda

    6 Natural Hangover Remedies to Cure What Ails Ya on New Year’s Day
    BANANAS You might have heard that bananas are favored by athletes because they contain potassium and it’s that same reason that makes them great hangover cures. When you’re hungover, your body has lost a lot of potassium that needs to be replenished, so eating a banana when you wake up will provide much needed relief. [...]
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    Yuka Yoneda

    This Towering Holiday Tree is Made of 86 Shopping Carts
    Images © Graham King “The shopping cart tree symbolizes both generosity and abundance, as well as acknowledging those less fortunate where their whole world may be housed in a cart. We see shopping carts every day and take them for granted. Individually the beauty of an everyday object may become invisible, but in quantity you [...]
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  • Bridgette Meinhold

    Bridgette Meinhold

    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the Largest LEED Platinum Non-Profit Building in the World
    The new campus occupies a site located in downtown Seattle across the street from the Space Needle. Formerly an asphalt parking lot, the site was restored with more than 40 percent of it turned into 2 acres of living roofs and native landscaping around the buildings. “The project started seven years ago with the initial [...]
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