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    Waterstudio’s floating sea wall harvests blue energy from crashing water

    Hundreds of world leaders are gathered in Paris to hash out a deal to save the planet from futureclimate change, but in the meantime, Koen Olthuis and the rest of the Waterstudio crew are working on solutions that we can ...
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    This Office Brought A Mini Forest Indoors

    Indoor plants aren’t just about gussying up a sterile cubicle. Numerous studies have shown that greenery is a potent way to boost workers’ mood and productivity. In Talinn, Estonia, the architects at KAMP took this notion to heart in their ...
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    The Fountain Of Health

    What may sound like a highly bizarre concept is actually a new method, from Bureau A, to manufacture health supplements. With their project The Spirulina Fountain, they rearrange the formulae of landscape architecture and gardening to deal with contemporary issues ...
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    This crazy land art deflects noise from Amsterdam’s airport

    To the southwest of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, just past the edge of the runway, there’s a series of hedges and ditches laid out like interlocking diamonds.  The 80-acre green space is the Buitenschot Land Art Park. Its trenches and ridges hold bike ...
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    Sustainable bricks made from plastic bottles

    The alarming increase of plastic waste is a constant worry that affects the environment, wildlife and consequently, humans. Every year, millions of tons of plastic is accumulated and all of that takes around 500 years to decompose. Faced with this problem, the ...
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    Workplace wellness: 7 workplace design experts weigh in on the next big thing

    There are many drivers increasing general awareness creating perhaps the most predominant trend of 2014: Wellness in the Workplace. I recently spoke with Joan Blumenfeld, of Perkins & Will, and one of the pioneers in this area, who worked with ...
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    Here’s how the high line’s landscape architects reenvision the office park

    If you work in the Philadelphia Navy Yard—a 1,200-acre industrial site turned office campus—your lunch break might include a game of ping pong or bocce ball. You could stretch your legs on a 1/5-mile running track, snag a bite from ...
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    This Is What Will Happen When You Eat Avocados Every Day

    Youve probably seen avocados being touted as a heart-healthy superfood in recent years. Realistically, the truth isnt too far off from the hype. The next time youre grabbing that burrito or turkey sandwich, you might want to consider adding a ...
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    ‘Spencer’ the robot is here to help guide lost airline passengers

    Meet Spencer. This armless automaton will begin a test run in Schiphol Amsterdam Airport at the end of the month, greeting and guiding harried travellers through the transport hub’s famously confusing terminal system. Navigating it is so challenging, in fact, ...