DIY. Eco greenhouse.
Greenhouse created from 1,500 trashed plastic bottles. via ecofriend [PR]
Greenhouse created from 1,500 trashed plastic bottles. via ecofriend [PR]
Art Center College of Design student Nancy Wu and premier sportswear company Nike.
The cut-and-sew experiment produced a final product, reminiscent of Roman sandals.
Retailer: collette
The official announce – ment of the new line of licensed Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO sets.
Created in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Brickstructures, Inc. and the LEGO Architecture brand, the first two sets in the series are The Guggenheim and Fallingwater.
Here are the detail via the press release we received:
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today that The LEGO Group is now the exclusive licensed manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO Architecture sets.
The LEGO Group and Adam Reed Tucker of Brickstructures, Inc. officially introduced the LEGO Architecture line in 2008. The line currently consists of six buildings – now including two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous and recognizable buildings, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and “Fallingwater.”
With models developed in collaboration with architects, LEGO Architecture works to inspire future architects, engineers and designers as well as architecture fans around the world with the LEGO brick as a medium. Builders of all ages can now collect and construct their favorite worldwide architectural sites through these artistic replicas.
Both exclusive Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Architecture sets contain booklets that feature traditional building instructions along with exclusive archival historical material and photographs of each iconic building.
According to Director of Licensing and Product Development, Doug Volker, “The LEGO product was one that the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation had considered pursuing for several years. It was the vision, passion and creative desire of Adam Reed Tucker to capture the essence of Mr. Wright’s most famous buildings using the medium of the LEGO brick that brought this partnership into being.”
“Mr. Wright’s buildings are a treasure trove of possibilities,” says Adam Reed Tucker, innovator of the Architecture Series for The LEGO Group. “I wanted to create these marvelous buildings for years, so I’m thrilled to be working with the Foundation in order to include Mr. Wright’s timeless buildings in this series, which conceptualizes the very essence of each building in LEGO bricks.”
Images copyright LEGO, Brickstructures and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
via prairiemod
LEED Honors for McDonald’s HQ via businessweek [PR]
Creativity does not take a back seat when it comes to <a href="chair design these days. [PR]
Scientists at MIT are testing a new power generation, storage and propulsion system known as the GreenWheel that will turn any pedal bicycle into an electric hog.
The GreenWheel is a self-contained electric wheel that can turn any pedal-powered bike into
a fully-electric bicycle!
From the outside, the GreenWheel has the radius of a small dinner plate and is about 2 inches thick. Inside the aluminum frame sits the three major GreenWheel components: an electric generator, batteries and an electric motor.
For now, installing GreenWheel on your own does require a moderate level of technical knowledge or a trip to a bike shop. The GreenWheel can be installed on any bike frame or wheel size, but the original spokes have to be replaced with shorter spokes.
Developed by Ryan Chin and Michael Chia-Lian Lin as part of MIT’s Smart Cities programs. The objective is to create a working prototype that can be installed and retroffited to any bike. The team is also thinking for the long term – they estimate that the batteries for the GreenWheel will last around 40,000 miles, or about 8 years worth of travelling.
The “2000 Watt Living” initiative imagines attractive new ways of using one sixth of the energy used by the average American. 2000 Watt Living was exhibited at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan 2009, and will be at Making Modern at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from June 16 to July 25.
via gfry studio and fastcompany [PR]
This is a robot. A metro transport for two passengers with ordinary hand-held baggage or one with luggage.
The taxi is composed of two main parts – an undercarriage and a cabin. The car is driven by two electric motors which are integrated into the rear wheels. There’s optical sensors around all the undercarriage to get maximum view for driving, navigation and control. While the concept looks futuristic, industrial designer Kubik Petr believes it’s going to happen sooner than we think with the modern technology at hand.
Designer: Kubik Petr
via ecofriend
Milan 09: Swedish furniture brand IKEA showed in Milan for the first time this year, presenting their PS Collection.
above: IKEA PS BRYGGA by Marcus Arvonen
above: IKEA PS PENDEL by Carl Hagerling
above: IKEA PS HÄLLAR by Maria Vinka
above: IKEA PS STOCK by Olga Popyrina
above: IKEA PS SPIKA by Maria Vinka and Jon Karlsson
DA discovers the collection which has made a big hit in Milan. {LINK] [LINK]
Strength in numbers. Assuming slightly more than one person per car on average, one coach bus could potentially replace 50 cars on the road and reduce carbon emissions some 10 times over. via flowingdata [PR]
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