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August 29th, 2008

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Architects HOK have released images of their design for a new British Embassy building in Jakarta, Indonesia. More »

August 24th, 2008

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Brooklyn architects Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) have designed a rooftop landscape of allotments to showcase green roof technologies on an industrial building in Queens, New York City. More »

August 19th, 2008

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London-based Norwegian designer and illustrator Amy Hunting created the Patchwork furniture series from waste wood and offcuts collected from factories. More »

August 18th, 2008

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New Designers 08: graduate designer Adam Rowe has produced a range of furniture made from oriented strand board (OSB).

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August 17th, 2008

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Swedish automotive design graduate Jon Rådbrink presented a concept for a catamaran-shaped car at the Royal College of Art graduation show in London last month. More »

August 13th, 2008

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The interior of Barrio North, a bar by London architects Anarchitect,  features back-to-front tiles and a cannibalised caravan. More »

August 7th, 2008

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Mexican design collective NEL have designed Global Warming Rug for Spanish textiles brand Nanimarquina. More »

August 5th, 2008

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Public Farm One by Work Architecture Company is an urban farming project, shown outside the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York last month. More »

July 31st, 2008

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New Designers 08: here are some more pictures of Oliver Bishop-Young’s SkipWaste project, which suggests new uses for dumpsters. More »

July 30th, 2008

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Construction is underway on the Sinosteel International Plaza in Tinajin, China designed by Beijing-based architects MAD. More »

July 24th, 2008

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Charles Barclay Architects have completed the Kielder Observatory in Northumberland, UK. More »

July 21st, 2008

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New Designers 08: Goldsmiths University graduate Oliver Bishop-Young presented two projects about skips at New Designers in London earlier this month. More »

July 14th, 2008

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New Designers 08: At New Designers in London last week Andrew Ross exhibited a collection of objects made of waste cow bones, which he collected from an abattoir. More »

July 14th, 2008

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Czech designer Jan Čtvrtník has won the Climate Competition organised by Droog with a vase based on Alvar Aalto’s famous design, but modified to express the effects of global warming. More »

July 11th, 2008

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X–Architects of Dubai have designed an urban complex called Xeritown that aims to be a more sustainable mode of development than recent projects in the emirate. More »

July 10th, 2008

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Designer Constantinos Economides has sent a few photos of his Rocking Plaftorms - a range of rockers made of found chairs mounted on curved wooden platforms. More »

July 9th, 2008

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Sam Baron of design research centre Fabrica in Italy has created rolls of patterned tape for covering old and unwanted furniture. More »

July 6th, 2008

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Spanish/Mexican architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales designed an exhibition of works by artist Susana Solano at Fundación ICO in Madrid, made almost entirely of recycled materials. More »

June 22nd, 2008

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Following requests from readers of our earlier story, we have now got hold of the full set of images in the Flooded London series by Squint/Opera. More »

June 20th, 2008

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Around 20 international artists and designers have created habitats for threatened British species from recycled materials for a charity auction to be held in London later this month. Above: Michael Young. Below: Peter Marigold. More »