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Team New Zealand’s First Light House Wins the Engineering Contest at the 2011 Solar Decathlon
We’ve been sitting on the edges of our seats all day, anxiously awaiting today’s Engineering Contest results at the 2011 Solar Decathlon. The results were just announced, and we’re
Futuristic Floating City is an Ecotopia at Sea
Futuristic floating cities seek to provide a solution to many of our environmental problems, like rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and dwindling resources. Recently Japanese building firm
Sub Biosphere 2: A Self-Sustaining Underwater City
Biosphere 2 never lasted too long, but there were certainly many lessons to be learned about living self-sufficiently, and even sustainably. UK-based designer Phil Pauley envisions another biosphere set
Crazy Mushroom Inspired Enoki Eco City
Spotted over at designboom, OFL Architecture‘s Enoki Eco City is a fantastical, sustainable model for Rome. Possibly inspired by fungi sprouting up from the ground, the city is a series of
James Law’s Technosphere is an Eco Deathstar for Dubai
Like an non evil, sustainable version of the Deathstar, the Technosphere by James Law Cybertecture replicates the Earth as a structural concept. Inside the eco-sphere is an entire world which serves as a
Self-Sufficent Floating House Powered by the Sun and Sea
House on the Water by Poland-based Formodesign is a stunning floating home that relies on the surrounding sea and radiating sun to keep it self-sufficient in terms of energy and h2o. Accessible only by
Are Ocean Societies the New Frontier for Sustainable Living?
Could the middle of the ocean offer sustainable dwelling places for mankind in the future? Estonian architect Marko Järvela of Hirvesoo Arhitektibüroo, winner of the aesthetics category in the first
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