Design
Norway is entering a new era of climate-conscious architecture
Brattørkaia is an eight-story office building that will produce 485,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) annually. For reference, the average Norwegian home uses about 20,000 kWh of power a Read More...
Permeable architecture can open up our sealed lives
Traditional buildings are designed to provide protection against a savage world, with us safe on one side and our waste on the other. Architects have long relied on “hard” materials such as masonry, aluminum, and glass, specifically chosen to prevent the outside environment from getting Read More...
This sustainable leather material is made entirely out of palm leaves
A Dutch designer has managed to manufacture leather-like rugs made out of palm leaves. The production method involves laying thin strips of palm leather and attaching them to a woven base. This vegan innovation could potentially help decrease the carbon footprint borne by the textile Read More...
Why public spaces are the safest investment for secure cities
Architecture is powerful, and like nuclear energy, it all depends on how it is used. While it can create uninhabitable municipalities, it can also create safer cities that improve quality of Read More...
This gracefully-looking office building is Australia’s tallest timber structure
An Australian architecture firm decided to put steel and concrete away and turn to sustainable highly engineered wooden materials instead, to build the country’s tallest timber structure. The building tastefully pairs its wooden skeleton with a shimmering glass facade, leaving the exposed timber Read More...
These cool windows are made out of transparent wood
A group of scientists developed a transparent window made out of wood that could potentially revolutionize this basic necessity of a home. Compared to glass, the see-through-wood window is less likely to break or shatter, is a better thermal insulator, and distributes light evenly preventing Read More...
Take a look at what the future of innovative design holds for us
The Global Grad Show is an annual exhibition that unveils the most startling and innovative creations of students from the world’s leading design schools. This year’s edition displayed 150 inventions cleverly designed to make our lives easier. Check them out here to get an idea of how the next Read More...
This multi-directional wind turbine could change the wind power game
A remarkable wind turbine design that may soon revolutionize the way we use wind to harness energy has won an international innovation award. The device represents a spinning 25cm sphere with geometric vents at different angles that allow for wind to be captured from many different directions. This Read More...
Your future smartphone could fix its broken screen by pulling carbon from the air
Carbon-fixing materials — substances powered by the sun that use atmospheric carbon dioxide to grow and repair themselves, just as plants do — don’t yet exist outside the lab. But scientists are getting tantalizingly close to making them a commercial Read More...
French car-pool app Blablacar branching into bus lines
French car ride-sharing app Blablacar said on Monday it had offered to buy Ouibus, a bus operator owned by state rail firm SNCF, in the first major departure from its digital business model toward building a broader transport company. Blablacar did not disclose financial terms but said it had also Read More...