Earth
Lava Carved Stone Furniture to Decorate Your Space
Most of us see lava as a dangerously beautiful thing to admire. We love and admire the coal-red beauty of it, but fear to approach it. But, it may not be the case for all. Raimonds Cirulis of Maffam Freeform takes a different approach in this. Maffam Freeform, a Latvian design company, sees that intriguing collection of furniture created out of ...
Tyson Show Incurs PETA Wrath
Mike Tyson’s new reality series “Taking on Tyson”, which premiered on Animal Planet may have won him good fanfare, but he is getting brickbats too. Well, the second mentioned reaction is from PETA. It has been learnt that the animal rights organization is not that impressed with the show.
How valuable is the Earth? Priciest at 5 Quadrillion Dollars!
Here comes an astrophysicist with a price tag for our home planet. Greg Laughlin, assistant astronomy and astrophysics professor from the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a special formula for determining how much the heavenly bodies in the universe are worth. According to this calculation valuing the planets, Earth has become the priciest one in the whole solar ...
360º Kransberg Highlands International Green Estate is South Africa’s First Carbon Neutral Green Estate
360º Kransberg Highlands International Green Estate, expected to become South Africa’s first carbon neutral green estate, is under its first phase of construction. This first of its kind estate concept, an exemplary of sustainable development has got many remarkable features as well.
Elderly Care Center in Spain gets Pixelated Green Facade
What adds beauty to this awesome elderly care center that rises from the magnificent landscape near Zamora, Spain is its pixelated green facade. The structure altogether appears to display a sloping profile. The whole complex is situated among rows of crops.
Eco Village Modeled on Coral Reefs for Haiti
Life is springing back to life in Haiti, so is the field of architecture. The most noteworthy thing in this regard is that Vincent Callebaut has succeeded in making a path breaking concept into reality. Callebaut has designed what known as the eco village in the country. The villages are supposed to be carbon neutral, thereby making it suitable for ...
Scientists Play Cupid to Penguins
Scientists at the New England Aquarium are donning the new role of cupids, trying to find out the best mate among African penguins at the aquarium. Scientists are pushing for a collective effort to save a species that researchers predict will be extinct in 15 years.
Folding Bamboo Houses for the Homeless
After the devastating earthquake which hit China last May, killing 69,000 and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless, many designers have tried to figure out a way to make shelter for all those people. Ming Tang did just that with his simple idea for folding houses derived from Origami. This design was recognized at a function in this year’s Re:construct competition ...
Solar Cell Prices May Rise Every Month, Starting this Feb
Solar cell manufacturers have sent word to module clients citing plans to hike prices by $0.01 each month, beginning February 2011. However, as new capacity is expected to come online this year, solar cell companies themselves have added that there was little chance of a price hike.
Soweta Football Training Centre in South Africa Creates an Exemplary Sustainable Design
The Soweta Football Training Centre in South Africa is hailed as a marvelous design in the area of sustainable architecture and energy- efficiency that too built in a short time span of just six months. The building is a collaboration venture between Canadian firm RUFproject and Nike Global Football Brand Design.
