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Tejo Remy and Rene Veenhuizen Build a Nest Chair Out of Bamboo

Tejo Remy and Rene Veenhuizen Build a Nest Chair Out of Bamboo

Designed by Dutch duo Tejo Remy and Rene Veenhuizen, the Bamboo Chair is a limited edition design made completely out of the pandas' favorite food. Bamboo is a fantastic, eco-friendly alternative to

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Amsterdam Science Park’s Faculty of Science Building is a Bright & Interactive Space

Amsterdam Science Park’s Faculty of Science Building is a Bright & Interactive Space

Building C is part of a larger project for the Faculty of Science and included the construction of buildings A, B and D, which mainly provide space for laboratories. The entire project was the result of a

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Design Website Groopti Unveils Museum Quality Cardboard Furniture Series

Design Website Groopti Unveils Museum Quality Cardboard Furniture Series

Groopti was conceptualized by long time friends Duri Chitayat and Adam Wihlborg and grew out of strong partnerships with quality low-volume manufactures formed through their previous careers. They now

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6 Uber Cool Passivhaus Designs From Around the World!

6 Uber Cool Passivhaus Designs From Around the World!

Stunning FabLab Passive House at Europe’s Solar Decathlon Chalkboard-Skinned Belgian Passivhaus is a Playground for Kids JustK PassivHaus In Germany Is a Fab Prefab Wooden Tower Awe-Inspiring

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Roswag Seiler and Pakistani Locals Hand-build a School from Cob, Bamboo and Mud

Roswag Seiler and Pakistani Locals Hand-build a School from Cob, Bamboo and Mud

The Tipu Sultan Merkez School in Punjab, Pakistan has a new sustainable building that was designed by German architects Roswag Seiler and built by locals. Using locally sourced and low-impact materials,

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Cornell Researchers Find That Lycopene and Grape Seed Extract Could Make Smoking Less Harmful

Cornell Researchers Find That Lycopene and Grape Seed Extract Could Make Smoking Less Harmful

If you know someone whose New Year's resolution is to quit smoking, a new finding may deter them from doing so. A recent study conducted by Cornell University found that lycopene and grape seed extract

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Biodegradable Rattan Iglu by Berta Riera Pomés and Yunwei Zhu

Biodegradable Rattan Iglu by Berta Riera Pomés and Yunwei Zhu

Berta Riera Pomés and Yunwei Zhu have used sustainable materials to create a cute 'Iglu' shelter that serves as a quiet place to hide or a fun object to roll around the house. Measuring 2.6 feet in

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Henrique Oliveira’s Powerful Recycled Wood “Tridimensional” Sculptures Burst Through Gallery Walls

Henrique Oliveira’s Powerful Recycled Wood “Tridimensional” Sculptures Burst Through Gallery Walls

Initially a painter, Oliveira was inspired by an old wooden fence he saw through his window across the street from his studio in Sao Paulo. The wood was so weathered that it split into layers, which

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Impressive Magistral Cabinet Facade Constructed with 80,000 Bamboo Skewers

Impressive Magistral Cabinet Facade Constructed with 80,000 Bamboo Skewers

Encasing Sebastian Errazuriz’s 'Magistral Cabinet' is a protective facade constructed from 80,000 bamboo skewers. Painstakingly hand-crafted by 12 carpenters, the cabinet is built to be opened up in

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Tour Bois-le-Prêtre: 60′s Parisian Social Housing Tower Renovated into Gleaming Efficient Apartment Complex

Tour Bois-le-Prêtre: 60′s Parisian Social Housing Tower Renovated into Gleaming Efficient Apartment Complex

The 17-story building was conceived as a low-cost social housing block - one of many that popped up throughout Europe at the time. A façade renovation 20 years ago eliminated much of the character of the

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Submit Your Photo to Our Captured Photo Contest To Win a $500 Best Buy Gift Card

Submit Your Photo to Our Captured Photo Contest To Win a $500 Best Buy Gift Card

How has design impacted your life? Is there a specific building, structure, city or object that is really important to you, that helped define you who are today? Perhaps you've traveled to distant lands

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The Eco-Luxe Cacheuta Thermal Hotel & Resort is a Tranquil Health Sanctuary in the Andes

The Eco-Luxe Cacheuta Thermal Hotel & Resort is a Tranquil Health Sanctuary in the Andes

The resort's architecture is alpine and has an outdoor sitting deck overlooking the large garden with bamboo parasols that protect visitors from Mendoza's hot summer sun. The fresh green garden is fenced

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Paul Morgan Architects’ Tree Trunk House Springs Up in Australia

Paul Morgan Architects’ Tree Trunk House Springs Up in Australia

Using local, sustainable wood found in the forest, the cabin is clad with the material inside and out. The exterior is surrounded with rustic branches that are naturally shaped into triangle supports

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Made in China: Émilie Voirin Reinterprets Iconic Chairs in Biodegradable Bamboo and Rattan

Made in China: Émilie Voirin Reinterprets Iconic Chairs in Biodegradable Bamboo and Rattan

London-based product designer Émilie Voirin has courageously re-interpreted a crop of iconic modern chairs into fantastic biodegradable seats. Using woven rattan and bamboo, the designer created

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Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the Home

Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the Home

There's no place like home, so this holiday season help your friends and family turn their interior spaces into sustainable sanctuaries with some goods from our Gifts for the Home Holiday Guide. From a

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Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for Girls

Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for Girls

This holiday season treat your little princess to the perfect present that not only delights her but also teaches her the value of sustainability. From awesome girl superhero pals to a dreamy eco

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Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for Mom and Dad

Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for Mom and Dad

They taught you how to ride a bike, housed you for the first 18 years of your life and, oh yeah, created you (though we'd rather not think about that part), so the the least you could do is get your

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Casa Cedeira: Spanish Prefab Home Sprouts a Lush Forest Motif on its Walls

Casa Cedeira: Spanish Prefab Home Sprouts a Lush Forest Motif on its Walls

Measuring 525 square feet, Casa Cedeira is located within the eucalyptus forests of Galicia in northwest Spain. It is built from galvanized steel, which gives the house a gorgeous red shine as it gets

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SMPLy Mod Prefab Prototype Home Lands in British Colombia

SMPLy Mod Prefab Prototype Home Lands in British Colombia

The prefab home builder designed, fabricated and installed the two story house in just 9 weeks this past fall. Located on a derelict subdivision lot, the home was built on a concrete pier foundation

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Beautiful Speakers Made from Sustainable Bamboo and Leather

Beautiful Speakers Made from Sustainable Bamboo and Leather

Designed by Serene Audio, these stunning little speakers are made from FSC approved bamboo and leather. The eco-minded company is as passionate about design as they are about music, and special attention

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Sicily’s Casa Talia is a Beautifully Renovated Moroccan-Style Retreat

Sicily’s Casa Talia is a Beautifully Renovated Moroccan-Style Retreat

Located on the southeast tip of Sicily in Italy, Casa Talia is the perfect place to spend some time living life at a slower pace. Designed and managed by architects Viviana Haddad y Marco Giunta, this

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10 Sure-to-Please Green Home Gifts For The Holidays

10 Sure-to-Please Green Home Gifts For The Holidays

It's been said that home is where the heart is, so this holiday, what better way to show the nicest people on your list how much you care than by getting them gifts to spruce up their pads? Nowadays,

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Nottoscale’s Rondolino Prefab is an Energy-Efficient Home in the High Desert of Nevada

Nottoscale’s Rondolino Prefab is an Energy-Efficient Home in the High Desert of Nevada

The Rondolino Residence is a vacation home for an Italian journalist and writer who fell in love with the desert. The design and construction process was done completely via email, and never once did the

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EcoVillage at Ithaca Offers Sustainable Living in a Community Setting

EcoVillage at Ithaca Offers Sustainable Living in a Community Setting

Joan Bokaer and Liz Walker were the founding co-directors of EcoVillage Ithaca. Inspired by co-housing projects that appeared in Denmark in the 1960s, the two were drawn to the balance of having a rich

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Caffe Streets Provides a Stylish and Cozy Hangout with a Bamboo Interior

Caffe Streets Provides a Stylish and Cozy Hangout with a Bamboo Interior

The owners of Caffe Streets in Chicago pride themselves on inventive design and sustainable practices. Inspired by years spent travelling, Darko Arandjelovic and his partner wanted to open a local

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ANNOUNCING: Inhabitat’s 2011 Green Holiday Gift Guide!

ANNOUNCING: Inhabitat’s 2011 Green Holiday Gift Guide!

OUR GREEN GIFT GUIDE'S BACK AND IT'S BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER! Is it that time of year already? If battling the crowds at your local mall doesn't sound like what you want to be doing for the yule

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Bali’s New Big Tree Chocolate Factory is the World’s Largest Commercial Bamboo Structure

Bali’s New Big Tree Chocolate Factory is the World’s Largest Commercial Bamboo Structure

Started by Ben Ripple and Frederick Schilling, once complete, the new Big Tree factory will be home to a delicious organic chocolate processing plant. Rather than building an industrial eyesore, Big Tree

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TAY’s Natural Skincare Products are Packaged in Beautiful Bamboo Containers

TAY’s Natural Skincare Products are Packaged in Beautiful Bamboo Containers

If you've been looking for a line of beauty products that's eco both inside and out, then TAY's new 'Clean and Pure' skincare line is a great way to bid adieu to chemical infused, BPA plastic-packaged

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Meshmatics Combines Chicken Wire and Bamboo Paper into Brilliant Soft Lights

Meshmatics Combines Chicken Wire and Bamboo Paper into Brilliant Soft Lights

Rick Tegelaar's main inspiration for design is to discover new possibilities for existing materials. Based in Amsterdam, Tegelaar developed a unique machine to create weird and wonderful shapes for his

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Richard Meier’s Shenzhen Clubhouse is a Naturally Lit Island Oasis

Richard Meier’s Shenzhen Clubhouse is a Naturally Lit Island Oasis

The main clubhouse is designed as a series of jutting white angular facades, with trapezoidal forms intersecting each other. Made from white metal panels, the facades allow daylight to flood the interior

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