Green

July 2nd, 2009

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Royal College of Art graduate Fabien Cappello has created a collection of furniture from unwanted Christmas trees. More »

July 2nd, 2009

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Frank Gehry is one of 14 architects to have designed duplexes for Make it Right, the charity founded by actor Brad Pitt to develop new housing typologies for a hurricane-devastated district of New Orleans. More »

July 1st, 2009

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Cape Town designers Animal Farm have produced an “organic lounger” made from woven branches that hangs in a tree and is reached by a rope ladder. More »

June 26th, 2009

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Finnish architects C-Laboratory have completed a timber house on a cherry farm in the mountains of northern Taiwan. More »

June 25th, 2009

Dezeenwire: Sears Tower in Chicago is to undergo a $350 million green refit to “reduce the tower’s electricity use by 80% and save 24 million gallons of water a year”. The Guardian

June 24th, 2009

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French designer Benjamin Graindorge has designed a garden that floats on the surface of a fishtank and uses fish waste as fertiliser. More »

June 19th, 2009

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Dutch interior architects i29 have completed an office suite for an advertising agency using used furniture bought from online auction sites and charity shops. More »

June 11th, 2009

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DMY Berlin 09: Latvian designers Merci Design presented a range of children’s furniture made of recycled paper pulp at DMY Youngsters in Berlin last week. More »

June 5th, 2009

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More recycled work from Swiss designer Anne-Cécile Rappa: Najah, Lazara and Ilham are a series of lights made of found objects sheathed in knitted plastic bags. More »

June 5th, 2009

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DMY Berlin 09: Viennese designers Mischer’Traxler have created a solar-powered machine that makes furniture, with the shape and colour of each product determined by the amount of sunlight available during manufacture. More »

June 4th, 2009

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Industrial designer Anne-Cécile Rappa has designed Bent, a pouf made of recycled polypropylene bags knitted together. More »

May 29th, 2009

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Industrial designer Karin Ehrnberger and interaction designer Loove Broms of the Interactive Institute in Sweden have designed a series of household objects highlighting energy consumption in daily activities. More »

May 17th, 2009

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Ten designers including Ted Muehling (above), Yves Béhar (below), Stephen Burks and Maya Lin have created objects for Design for a Living World, an exhibition of products using sustainable materials from around the world that opened at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York this week. More »

May 7th, 2009

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Wattcher is a product that monitors domestic electricity use, designed by Marcel Wanders for Dutch company Innovaders. More »

April 24th, 2009

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Barcelona-based H Arquitectes have completed School Gym 704 in Barberà del Vallès, Spain. More »

April 11th, 2009

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Prague design studio Novague have proposed a rocking chair containing a dynamo that powers a reading light. More »

March 29th, 2009

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British designer Karen Ryan has sent a series of images showing the development of her latest project, called In The Woods. More »

March 16th, 2009

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Designer Anders Wilhelmson, in collaboration with Camilla Wirseen and Peter Thuvander, has developed the Peepoo bag - a single-use, disposable toilet bag intended to improve sanitary conditions in developing nations. More »

March 10th, 2009

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Architects RMJM have launched a concept for apartment blocks that do not require heating. More »

March 2nd, 2009

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Polish designer Katarzyna Okinczyc and photographer Remigiusz Truchanowicz have designed the 60Bag, a carrier-bag that degrades in 60 days. More »