My design in a box concept that i'll never complete.
Need to get back to this...

Dutch architect Anne Holtrop has collaborated with green technology firm Studio Noach and botanist Patrick Blanc to propose an artificial floating island containing gardens and a spa.


I love northern Europe design :)


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DMY Berlin 2010: designer Debbie Wijskamp exhibited her collection of cabinets made from blocks of pulped paper at DMY Berlin


Called Paperpulp, the pieces are made from pulped waste-paper, sawn up and treated like planks of wood.


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Nice idea - not to my personal aesthetic taste but an interesting concept....actually the more I look at this the more I can't stand it - sorry there is no link...

Milan designers Gabriele and Oscar Buratti have collaborated with bathroom brand Roca to create a combined toilet and wash basin, where waste water from the sink is used to fill the toilet cistern

American landscape architect Heather Ring of the Wayward Plant Registry has transformed a disused site in Bankside, London, into a public garden with the introduction of apple trees, allotments,  a timber pavilion, and a table-tennis table in a skip.


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Oh, it's not regarding sustainability - this just makes me laugh :)  (click on the smiley face)

Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! VIDEO

Yes, I was totally with him until he mentioned growing meat homes...

Green Dream book: How future cities can outsmart nature.

Looks interesting - will at some point check this out in the library. Link to article

Link in books for amazon if purchase is imminent!

Seems to focus on huge-scale green impact/ideas - some interesting.

Sebastian Cox chair and lamp

The back and seat of the Kerf Chair (above) are made of sawn hazel branches joined to the frame without glue, so that the structure strengthens as it dries and shrinks.


Lamp below: The Rod Desk Lamp (above) has a stem made from a steam-bent hazel branch and a shade made of hazel fibres.

‘Products of Silviculture’ - My work embodies a strong ethos of sustainability. For this project I have used coppiced hazel as my primary working material – a material that is strong, light, entirely renewable, and grows in abundance in the UK.

The challenge in this MA project was to find creative ways to utilise this material. To do this I combined my furniture making skills with the traditional methods used to manipulate green hazel, along with a bit of creative imagination.

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Transcendent city

Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy has shared with us his short film imagining an autonomous, artificially intelligent, sustainable city 


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Reminds me of the Matrix. Some interesting visualisations - the idea of a city - growth doesn't appeal.

FabLab House

FabLab House by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

The FabLab House, a solar panel-covered passive building designed by a team from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, is perhaps the funkiest house we covered for the 2010 Solar Decathlon. This three-legged house is clad in solar panels and is chock full of tricks to keep it cool during the heated competition.


Read more: 9 Green Architecture Student Projects That Make the Grade | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World