Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center Inspired by Native Architecture
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Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center Inspired by Native Architecture
Registration is Open for the 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition!
We’re excited to announce that one of our favorite architecture competitions — the eVolo Skyscraper competition — is starting up again, and registration is now open! The annual design contest explores the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city — and they’re looking for your best designs for futuristic, innovative, and creative towers. The competition has showcased a brilliant crop of concepts over the past few years, like the Ciliwung Recovery Project designed to clean up the rivers of Jakarta, or Dystopian Farms , a spiraling vertical farm for New York City.
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Registration is Open for the 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition!
A Home Fit For Elephants at the Cophenhagen Zoo
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Wiggly Cups Made of Jello Are Biodegradable and Edible!
We’ve been touting biodegradable tableware for some time now, but these wiggly cups made of Jello take things to the next level! Conceived by design consultancy The Way We See the World for the 2nd annual Jell-O Mold competition hosted by Gowanus Studio Space, the squishy cups are actually made of agar agar and come in yummy flavors like lemon-basil, ginger-mint, and rosemary-beet. When you’re done drinking from your Jello cup, just chuck it in the grass (agar agar actually nourishes plant life) or dispose of it in a more enjoyable fashion – eat it! + The Way We See the World Via Yanko Design Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: agar agar , biodegradable cups , eco cups , eco design , eco-friendly tableware , gowanus studio space edible cups , green cups , green design , jell-o , jell-o mold competition , jello cups , jelloware , sustainable design , the way we see the world
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NYC Rolls Out Real-Time Water Metering
This past Monday, New York City’s Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway initiated a city-wide tracking system that will help consumers and businesses monitor their water usage in real time.
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The L41 Prefab Home Packs a Whole Lot into a Tiny Space
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Henning Larsen Unveils Winning Design for Campus Roskilde
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World’s Greenest Supercomputer Crowned at the University of Tokyo
It seems there’s a new supercomputer every month, but now there’s a new standard for differentiating them – by how green they are. The Grape DR , a Japanese cluster at the University of Tokyo, has just been named the world’s greenest supercomputer, topping out over a German supercomputer according to the Little Green500 list . The Green500 is the organization that keeps track of how energy efficient all the supercomputers are by measuring computing power against power consumption.
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Science City Stores Warm Air from Summer to Heat Buildings in Winter
Humans are pretty temperature-sensitive creatures, which means we use a ton of power every year through heating and air-conditioning systems . But imagine if there were a way to save the summer’s hot air and use it to heat buildings throughout the winter. Sounds like science fiction, right?
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Lab-Grown Lungs Successfully Transplanted into Rats for First Time
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Having written previously about a synthetic lung on a chip that would provide an alternative to animal testing for toxic substances, this development caught our eye: researchers at Harvard Medical School have now grown lungs from living cells and successfully transplanted them into rats, who used them to breathe for up to six hours. The process suggests that humans with end-stage lung disease could one day have their lungs replaced with the petri-dish variety.
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Lab-Grown Lungs Successfully Transplanted into Rats for First Time