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The guys who run FreeGreen, the free homeplan website, are so smart; they could have just hired architects to do plans, and would have had to go to the trouble of deciding which architect to hire; instead they write a brief and run a competition. Now they have the work of hundreds of architects to chose from; established firms with the works in the drawer, young designers hoping to be discovered. But they are not the only ones who benefit; everyone can look, vote and learn from over 400 submissions.

The challenge was to “re-envision the typical suburban home in an ecologically conscious manner that also reflects today’s modern lifesty…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The eVolo Skyscraper competition is always one of the most spectacular speculative ideafests of architecture, with entries from all over the world, this year from 42 different countries. There are always some entries that just pop out, that demonstrate a different way of looking at buildings. They are rarely the winners though; the jury usually is as eccentric as the entries.

This year is no different, giving first prize to a design for a vertical prison “where the criminals are taken off the street to a place within that community and while serving their sentences, they continuously contribute to that particular community yet remain separated; a vertic…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Theresults of Core77’s One hour design challenge are in, and I am pleased to note that I called it, picking the Lifetentfor our earlier post.I was really hoping that none of the many container versions would make it into the finals; as Cameron Sinclair noted three years ago inICON:

“Every designer in design school wants to do these sorts of projects, and there’s no benc…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Theresults of Core77’s One hour design challenge are in, and I am pleased to note that I called it, picking the Lifetentfor our earlier post.I was really hoping that none of the many container versions would make it into the finals; as Cameron Sinclair noted three years ago inICON:

“Every designer in design school wants to do these sorts of projects, and there’s no benc…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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image courtesy of Anderlyn DesksAfter writingAre Standing Desks Healthier Than Sitting?I decided to try it, with a quick and dirty setup of an old draughting table. I am only four days into the experiment and consider it way to early to evaluate (some say that it takes two weeks to adjust) but discovered a few other quick (and not so dirty) ways to try it out if you don’t happen to have an adjustable table around.

One interesting solution is theAnderlyn Desk,a flatpack design invented by Wi…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: MethodThehybrid carhas become the icon of eco; a status symbol of responsibility. Roll up in one and you have instant green cred. There is even a sub-culture of hybridism, talking up the benefits and doling out deals to hybrid owners. But what is the realintention of all these incentives? Did someone consider the effects of these perks when they were designed?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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image courtesy of Anderlyn DesksAfter writingAre Standing Desks Healthier Than Sitting?I decided to try it, with a quick and dirty setup of an old draughting table. I am only four days into the experiment and consider it way to early to evaluate (some say that it takes two weeks to adjust) but discovered a few other quick (and not so dirty) ways to try it out if you don’t happen to have an adjustable table around.

One interesting solution is theAnderlyn Desk,a flatpack design invented by Wi…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: MethodThehybrid carhas become the icon of eco; a status symbol of responsibility. Roll up in one and you have instant green cred. There is even a sub-culture of hybridism, talking up the benefits and doling out deals to hybrid owners. But what is the realintention of all these incentives? Did someone consider the effects of these perks when they were designed?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: MethodThehybrid carhas become the icon of eco; a status symbol of responsibility. Roll up in one and you have instant green cred. There is even a sub-culture of hybridism, talking up the benefits and doling out deals to hybrid owners. But what is the realintention of all these incentives? Did someone consider the effects of these perks when they were designed?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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images viaDesignboomThat is what French designerJosselin Zaïgouchesays about his novel, if unusual, way to reduce power consumption….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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