Coop Himmelb(l)au Unveils Design For Crystalline Parliament Complex in Albania
Openness, transparency and public co-determination were the core criteria in a competition to design a new Parliamentary...
LEED Gold Langara Library Uses Wind Towers Instead of Traditional Heating and Cooling
[gallery_extend] The Langara library is specially designed to make use of the stack effect -- cool air...
The Palmwood House is a Lilliputian Home That Lets the Owners Live Large
[gallery_extend] The building site is located on a triangular plot at the oblique intersection of two...
Gorgeous Glass Clad Groot Klimmendaal Rehabilitation Centre Sits Tucked Amongst the Trees
[gallery_extend] The three-story building is clad in anodized, brown aluminum as a way of blending it...
A Playful Checkerboard Facade Protects the Pegasus Building From the Indian Heat
[gallery_extend] The 87,300 sq ft Pegasus complex is part of the recently developed Prahalad Nagar Road,...
700-Year Old Italian Farmhouse Renovated with Delicate Filigree Screens
[gallery_extend] The masserie were built to protect the inhabitants - either the landowner and his family...
Top 5 Green Gadgets from CES 2011
Each year the Consumer Electronics Show lights up Las Vegas with an exhilarating showcase of cutting-edge technology....
Mati Karmin's Explosive Mine Furniture is the Bomb
Other furniture makers might say that their work is the bomb, but few can say that their creations are actually...
The Nest: A Wild Wooden Treehouse That Sways 23 Ft Off the Ground
[gallery_extend] One of the coolest features of the Nest is that Romero suspended it from an airplane...
Cocoon-Like Vertical Bamboo Towers Are High Tech and Primitive at The Same Time
[gallery_extend] Bamboo poles are connected together with high tech metal "X" joints to create the exoskeleton...
Bike Beer Holder Lets You Be a Booze Guzzler Without Being a Gas Guzzler
We love bikesand we love beer. So when we saw this little doohickey that marries the two, we had a moment of pupil...
Innovative and Flexible Prefab Prototype Schools For Los Angeles School District
[gallery_extend] The number of students at a given school changes over time, and since many schools...
Pixelated Birdhouses Sprout on City Trees in London
[gallery_extend] With over 250 bird and bug boxes available in the stunning sculptural art installation,...
Packaging the Future: Micromidas Makes Biodegradable Plastic from Sewage
Right now, 8% of the world's oil is used to make plastics -- and oil has to be extracted from the belly of the...
Helmut Smits Transforms Ordinary Cans into Kitschy n' Cool Sculpture Art
At first glance, this might look like an ordinary drum set to you, but take a closer look -- the instruments are...
