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Design

Transparent, prefab tiny cabin offers the best views of the Italian Alps

  • Nicole Jewell
  • 01/16/2020

If you need a little getaway, there is a beautiful, tiny cabin retreat in the Italian Alps calling your name. The Immerso cabin, which is available to rent on Airbnb, is a prefabricated timber cabin with transparent roofs and walls that allow guests to completely "immerse" themselves in nature while trying to...

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Architecture

Passive solar community in Brazil combines social justice and sustainability

  • Lucy Wang
  • 01/15/2020

To empower a marginalized community in Brazil’s Maranhão state, São Paulo-based architecture firm Estudio Flume has completed Castanha de Caju, a new headquarters for a women’s agricultural cooperative that doubles as a welcoming community hub. Constructed on a limited budget and a tight timeline,...

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Design

Rolls-Royce unveils prototype for world's fastest electric plane

  • Dawn Hammon
  • 01/15/2020

Innovation is the name of the game for luxury industry leaders like Rolls-Royce, so it’s no surprise they have a variety of sustainable travel projects in the works. Last month, Rolls-Royce released its newest project — an all-electric plane set to take flight later this spring. Dubbed ACCEL...

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Architecture

The low-impact Bridge House hovers over a stream in Los Angeles

  • Dawn Hammon
  • 01/15/2020

Architecture is often heavily influenced by the existing landscape surrounding a structure, but architect Dan Brunn didn’t let the weaving waterways on his Los Angeles property limit the options for his home. Dubbed the Bridge House, this 4,500-square-foot home straddles 65 feet of natural stream without harming...

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Architecture

Couple turns old van into home-on-wheels for just $1K

  • Nicole Jewell
  • 01/15/2020

IKEA offers an almost infinite amount of space solutions for any type of abode — for one couple looking to convert an old van into a home on wheels, IKEA products were their saving grace. Ambitious couple Grace Aquino and her husband Marlon were on an extremely tight budget when they decided to turn their old...

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Landscape Architecture

Snøhetta to revitalize Midtown Manhattan with vibrant garden

  • Lucy Wang
  • 01/15/2020

Midtown Manhattan will soon become much greener thanks to New York City Planning Commission’s unanimous approval of Snøhetta’s design for a new privately-owned public space (POPS) in 550 Madison, a Philip Johnson-designed postmodernist landmark. Designed as a “vibrant sensory retreat,” the new public...

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  • Katherine Gallagher
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Wearable garden vest is nourished by wearer's own urine

  • Nicole Jewell
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Are you looking to spruce up your wardrobe this spring? Well, we've got the season's eco-fashion garment for you — a wearable garden vest that thrives on your urine. Created by designer Aroussiak Gabrielian, the lush "garden cloak" concept was inspired as a potential solution to crop scarcity around the globe....

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Quorn introduces carbon footprint labeling

  • Mariecor Agravante
  • 01/14/2020

In a trailblazing move, Quorn, the meatless food manufacturer headquartered in the U.K., is now leveraging carbon labeling on more than half its product line. Carbon labeling delineates where greenhouse gas emissions are associated with production, manufacture, distribution and transport of a particular consumer...

In a trailblazing move, Quorn, the meatless food manufacturer headquartered in the U.K., is now leveraging carbon labeling on more than half...

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This dynamic parking garage doubles as a public sculpture

  • Lucy Wang
  • 01/13/2020

In Denmark’s fourth-largest city of Aalborg, Copenhagen-based architecture firm Sangberg has designed a deceptively simple parking garage that offers much more than parking spaces. Dubbed the Parking House G2, the monolithic building features a dynamic and lightweight facade of extruded aluminum slats that “animates...

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  • Teresa Bergen
  • 01/13/2020

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