The winner of the 2010 Passivhaus Architecture Award is a fantastic three-apartment building on the outskirts of Bern, Switzerland. Built by architect Peter Schurch, principle of Halle 52 , the building breaks the mold for passive house design by incorporating a lot of glass — over 50% of the façade — yet it still achieves a strict 13kWr per sq meter of energy consumption a year.
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You requested them, now here they are 5.8mm/0.228″ Euromaple Plywood — great for making toys, furniture and lamps.
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Digital technology and warm natural materials come together in a new line of lighting.
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These Noshi stools by Nick Seymour from Designloop look like they’re made from paper, but they’re actually made from a single sheet of laser-cut mild steel cleverly folded into a beautifully simple form. We love seeing flat-packable designs that make the most of materials, and these no-screw no-glue stools wowed us with their (very recyclable) adaptation of origami on an industrial scale! READ MORE > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “green furniture” , “sustainable furniture” , designloop , eco design , green design , nick seymour , noshi , recyclable materials , steel , stool , sustainable design
Continue Reading →These contemporary glass radiators for your central heating system developed by Thermovit Elegance are capable to make your interior stunning and beautiful. Central heating radiators are usually boring and simple but these ones are not only functional but also stylish.
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Photo credit: John Bollwitt Flickr With global soccer fever still high, here’s another amazing soccer stadium that boasts some remarkable green features. The recently completed Empire Field Stadium in Vancouver is made with 22,000 recycled tires , amounting to 346,000 pounds of crumb rubber! The stadium, which will host the BC Lions football team (American football) and the Vancouver Whitecaps Soccer team, utilizes the crumb rubber under the artificial turf, which provides a number of benefits for the players and the environment
Continue Reading →Photo credit: John Bollwitt Flickr With global soccer fever still high, here’s another amazing soccer stadium that boasts some remarkable green features. The recently completed Empire Field Stadium in Vancouver is made with 22,000 recycled tires , amounting to 346,000 pounds of crumb rubber! The stadium, which will host the BC Lions football team (American football) and the Vancouver Whitecaps Soccer team, utilizes the crumb rubber under the artificial turf, which provides a number of benefits for the players and the environment. Read the rest of Vancouver Soccer Stadium Made With 22,000 Recycled Tires http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: crumb rubber , eco design , empire field stadium , football , green design , liberty tire recycling , Recycled Materials , recycled tires , Soccer , soccer field , Sustainable Building , tires , vancouver
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Many underground homes have relatively extreme designs, either due to ultra-wealthy clients who give their architects a (literal or at least metaphorical) blank check to design a luxury dream house, or because of existing conditions (for instance; retrofitting an old military base and/or missile silo to be a new home). This modest alternative shows the power of simplicity in a nonetheless remarkable minimalist home in the ground
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Shipping containers are often repurposed as houses, apartments and studios , but Swedish artist Michael Johansson sees them as building blocks for his sculptures.
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