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    Stacked Cube Skyscrapers

    This Sustainable Skyscraper Houses a Flexible Mixed-Use Interior While it’s unfortunate that there are so many nondescript skyscrapers that are rapidly constructed in cities, this design for a sustainable “woodscraper” by architect Leonhard Weingartner offers both style and eco-friendly features. ...
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    Flat-Folding Shower

    Showers are used for maybe a few minutes a day, so why should they displace space the rest of the time? This ingeniously simple solution proposes that a shower should not have to take up excess room when not in ...
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    Sculptural Cubic Furniture

    This Chair Blends Functionality and Design Seemlessly This cubic furniture uses a nature-based and minimalist approach to create an elegant addition to any living room. Designer Per Jensen looked at a simple object like the cube and thought it was ...
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    Making it Radiant

    On some primal level, we all understand the thermal characteristics of radiation. After all, who hasn’t ventured out from the cool shade of a canopy tree into the sun’s warmth? The immediate and often dramatic change in temperature seemingly occurs ...
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    Wellness Sky / 4of7

    Architects: 4of7 Location: Belgrade, Serbia Architects: 4of7 Design Team: Djordje Stojanovic, Vlada Pavlovic, Slavko Milanovic Area: 1100.0 sqm Project Year: 2008        From the architect. The building named ‘Danube Flower’ was built some thirty-five years ago to become a ...
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    BIM Promotes Sustainability – Practitioners are finding paths to green through interoperable software

    Construction was about to begin on the restoration and addition for historic Grant School, in Washington, D.C. The contractor had nearly finished the time-consuming coordination of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing trades. Then work ground to a halt. Local legislation had ...
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    Futuristic water-recycling shower cuts bills by over $1,000

     In space, astronauts go for years without a fresh supply of water. Floating in a capsule in outer space they wash and drink from the same continuously recycled source. So why, asked Swedish industrial designer Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, do we not ...
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    How to design hotels for wellness tourism

    The needs of hotel guests are ever evolving, and the hospitality industry continues to adapt to meet their demands. Today’s travelers are exceedingly focused on healthy living and expect to maintain their wellness lifestyle when traveling. Wellness isn’t just the ...
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    Doing Well and Doing Good with the Green Air Hotel

    You don’t win the Radical Innovation Award without proposing to change an entire industry through design. Lip Chiong, principal of Studio Twist, won because his Green Air Hotels may revolutionize how the Chinese hospitality industry works and breathes. Chiong saw ...