Eco
Eco / Eco flood
May 8, 2008 | Eco | by Snell |
In these new quick-eat restaurants around Paris, the quality of the air is as important as the quality of the food. Mathieu Lehanneur has utilized a 3 billion year old micro-algae, Spirulina Platensis, in 100 litre vats to produce large quantities of pure oxygen through the process of photosynthesis. Read more
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May 5, 2008 | Eco | by Yuko Shimizu |
I read about Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Garden in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. It seems like America is all about eco and green now days, and I thought nothing would blow me away at this point. But it did. Read more
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April 28, 2008 | Eco | by Gerry Mak |
Dutch designer Gert-Jan van Breugel was a finalist for this year’s Greener Gadgets Design Competition, and though he didn’t win, we think his biodegradable bamboo phone is the bees’ knees. Read more
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Eco / Carla Tennenbaum
April 26, 2008 | Eco | by Gerry Mak |
Brazilian artist Carla Tennenbaum has come up with some pretty awesome decorative pieces made completely out of discarded EVA foam, the non-biodegradable stuff usually used to pad sports equipment. Read more
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Eco / Green Ribbons
April 24, 2008 | Eco | by Snell |
An example of another green approach to city living, the Green Ribbons project connects a number of high rise condominiums in the Heping neighbourhood of Tianjin. Read more
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Eco / Vertical urban farm
April 22, 2008 | Eco | by Snell |
The New York architectural firm, Work Architecture Company, have produced this urban farm and apartment building as part of an ideas competition for an awkward block in the city. Read more
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Eco / Popular Tower
April 18, 2008 | Eco | by Snell |
The strategy based architectural firm Popular Architecture has created a scheme that takes on the spread of cities. Read more
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Eco / Vertical Farming
April 11, 2008 | Eco | by Gerry Mak |
As China’s cities, infrastructure, and economy boomed under the reforms post 1979, Deng Xiaoping insisted that agriculture, industry, and urban areas should all be close together, so that no materials needed to be transported very far. Read more
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Eco / Celestial Solar Tower
March 3, 2008 | Eco | by Snell |
This is the new solar thermal power plant outside Seville in southern Spain. Read more
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Eco / Korean green housing
March 1, 2008 | Eco | by Snell |
Korean architects, Mass Studies, have attacked the idea of housing typology in this project for a Seoul Commune in the year 2026. The buildings are comprised of public and private cells; technology is harnessed to make the private cells more private and the public cells more public. From your private cell, you can monitor the goings on in the public cells. Read more
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Eco / Prefab House
February 29, 2008 | Eco | by Snell |
New York and Connecticut based Brio54 have just added this design to their range of prefab houses. Read more
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Eco / Eco Lighthouse
February 1, 2008 | Eco | by Snell |
Called the Lighthouse (BRE House), this is the UK’s first ever net zero carbon home that also meets the highest level of the UK Standard Code for Sustainable Homes. It is a leading example because not only is it made with the most sustainable materials, but is also designed to encourage and shape a more sustainable lifestyle for its occupants. Read more
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Eco / Maverick Eco M2-House
January 30, 2008 | Eco | by Snell |
Maverick artist come architect, Michael Jantzen, has created this fantastic experiment as a design study for a modular prefabricated eco-friendly house. Read more
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December 22, 2007 | Eco | by Snell |
Along with the greening of brown sites, this has to be one of the answers for a more eco future. To take a large piece of land, to maintain the bulk of it as it is naturally, and then to design a highly dense yet attractive living environment. The trick is that a development such as this needs to be desirable to those that can afford it, in the hope that this aspiration trickles down for a more sustainable future. Eminent British architect, Norman Foster, has created the Black Sea Gardens, Byala, Bulgaria, in exactly this vein. Read more
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Eco / Ecopod coffin
November 10, 2007 | Eco | by Snell |
With us all increasingly looking for everyday efforts to be more green and care for our planet, why not consider an option for our last day here? Read more
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Laura Veirs is one of my favorite songwriters. I can’t think of a single song of her’s that I haven’t loved instantly, and continue to wear out on my inner-ear iPod. I interviewed her recently, a few nights after I saw her awesome set at New York’s Gramercy Theatre. Read more
These very sweet folks from Seattle supported Broken Social Scene on our last American dates of the Spirit IF tour. Although they haven’t quite hit their stride as a live outfit, the tunes from songwriter Grant Olsen have some very lovely moments that fall somewhere between Velvet Underground and The Everly Brothers. I think Arthur and Yu could take over from where Grandaddy left off, though with better songs. No offense to Grandaddy.
Man, I remember shaking my tail to Come on Eileen many moons ago — when rat-tails were a right of passage and Molly Ringwald held both the lock and the key to my tiny pitter pattering heart. Back then it was all ice-skating and fairy floss; skateboards and trading cards. It was bags of chips by the rusty school fence and sunburnt faces on crackling summer days. Read more
Each room in Copenhagen’s Hotel Fox is an individual piece of art. 21 international artists descended on the hotel to turn each of the 61 rooms into a unique space, featuring creative artwork ranging from Japanese manga to fluid graphic design. Read more
I’m enjoying reading the insight and witticisms of the Indie Breakfast Club blog, which casts a wide net over entrepreneurship and what it means to be one and still have a conscience.
‘Lost’ is the most recent film production in the urban art series produced by Tokyo-based art crew Rinpa Eshidan. Read more
Rick Owen’s spring collection uses monochrome patterns to create a classic and chic silhouette. The layering, and oversized look, is perfectly tailored: big around the neck and tighter in the leg. Read more
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If I was a fashion photographer instead of an illustrator, I would probably be Maki Kawakita, or at least be like her. Read more
Cellist Ben Sollee is like Andrew Bird with a little more soul, or Arthur Russell with a bit more bounce. Read more
We are constantly surrounded by photography, but do we ever really stop to look? To be honest, I never paid much attention in the past. But I’ve now turned over a new leaf, and my ignorance has turned to obsession. Read more
We’re big fans of Texas-based group, Midlake, whose melodic indie-rock is deliciously produced. We interviewed guitarist Eric Pulido. Read more
I’ve known Tiffany Bozic’s work for years, but I think her paintings are now looking better than ever. Read more
To tie in with the release of the new Raveonettes album, Lust Lust Lust, we have four [2 small, 2 medium] Brett Rubin screen-printed t-shirts to give away to randomly selected new subscribers to Lost At E Minor. Read more
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