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    This Eco-Village is Designed to be Fully Self-Sufficient, from Energy to Food to Waste

    Imagine a neighborhood that can grow its own food, produce its own energy, and turn its waste system into a closed-loop regenerative system. Now imagine a network of such villages all over the world. Pretty far-fetched, eh? Maybe, but that’s ...
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    Amazing Landscape Carpets Transform your Living Room into a Lush, Grassy Meadow

    These aren’t your grandmother’s shag carpets – Alexandra Kehayoglou creates incredible rugs that look like miniature pastures and meadows. Kehayoglou sources leftover scraps of wool thread from her family’s carpet factory to produce these wonderful hand-tufted artworks, which pay tribute ...
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    Great Indoors: Visit Singapore’s Newest Flexible Workspace

    Jaelle Ang says the idea for The Great Room came about because between a third to half of all workers today are flexible and mobile. ‘Increasingly, workers and companies are realising they need to use a wide range and typology ...
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    Restoring a Rural Barn for a Quiet Vacation Retreat

    In the grand state of Washington, on the Northwest coast of the United States, Seattle-based MW Workssets the stage for a quiet vacation retreat. With emphasis on the use of salvaged materials, Canyon Barnis a patchwork of raw steel and ...
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    Gorgeous Stool Made With Zero Waste Blends Wood And Resin To Stunning Effect

    Based in South Korea, design studio HATTERN has created the ‘ZERO PER PROJECT’ project, where they aim to produce as little waste as possible during the making of their products. As part of this eco-friendly project, the HATTERN team has ...
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    An Abandoned Inn Becomes an Eco-Conscious Hotel in Iceland

    With a past that involves housing workers at the Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Plant, this former inn was sitting vacant in 2011 when it was acquired. With the help of faraway Santa Monica-based design studio Minarc, the abandoned building was renovated ...
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    Punta Sirena Hotel / WMR Arquitectos

    Architects WMR Arquitectos Location Curanipe, Pelluhue, Maule Region, Chile Project Area 1200.0 m2 Project Year 2014 Photographs Sergio Pirrone Manufacturers B&P, Behr, Cerecita, Indalum, Scanavini, Steelock, carbonileo From the architect. Punta Sirena Hotel is intended primarily for kitesurf water sport, as recreation. ...
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    Airbnb Conceptualizes The Future Of Shared Space

    Airbnb and Japanese design house Go Hasegawa have teamed up on a project that challenges the notion of shared space. With a project titled Sugi No Ie, or Yoshino Cedar House, the two companies took part in the tri-annual exhibition, House Vision, and together worked ...
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    Spiraling Algaevator sucks up CO2 to Produce Clean, Green Algae Biofuel

    Algae—better known to some as ‘pond scum’—has exciting possibilities in the future of biofuel. The propagation of the slimy green stuff, however, is often hidden away in agricultural and industrial structures. To boost awareness of algae’s uses and production, designers ...