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Britain goes seven days without using any coal powered sources of electricity for the first time since the Industrial Revolution.
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The design site Dimensions.Guide is a clip art library for designers, architects, and anyone else who needs precise scale drawings. Every scale drawing in its database is composed in the same clean line-art style. Drawings include sports equipment, cars, furniture, people (in various poses and sizes), computers and phones, plants and animals, room and landscape layouts, and even Marvel characters. And it’s all free to use in your own projects.
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“Time seems to have stopped in a wild summer world of long, long ago.”
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French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel has published a new book about the flowers within the storied Paris museum’s art collection, alongside an intervention of new paintings in the Louvre’s glass-roofed French sculpture hall
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onsidering the legal restraints of the site, the building could only have three floors, including a half-basement, each of which is about 30m2.
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The aircraft industry has to cut greenhouse gases but air travel is growing, so what’s the answer?
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's “cyborg botany” researchers have turned plants into sensors and displays, suggesting we use them as a gentle alternative to electronic screens.
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Cano Lasso has completed Second Home London Fields, which is fronted by a translucent facade punctuated by circular opening and includes a nursery.
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The idea of a “biodegradable” plastic suggests a material that would degrade to little or nothing over a period of time, posing less of a hazard to wildlife and the environment. This is the sort of claim often made by plastic manufacturers, yet recent research has revealed supposedly biodegradable plastic bags still intact after three …
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Algae is full of protein, cleans the air in your apartment, and looks beautiful. A new project from a RISD grad could make farming it at home as easy as growing a pot of basil.
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Three miniature landscape settings have popped up in London, temporarily transforming pockets of pavement into public ‘parklets’. As part of the London Festival of Architecture, in partnership with the City of London Corporation, the three urban interv…
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You might not be able to stomach soybeans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the animals you eat do. Cultivation of the staple crop takes up an area five times the size of the UK, and 85% of that area is used for animal feed. Thanks to projected rapid growth in both world population and …
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Photographer George Marazakis documents traces of human activity for his series 'A Cure for Anthropocene'.
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The cradle of the Industrial Revolution is turning a corner away from pollution.
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Nature comes potted and clipped in the 1970s photographs of Luigi Ghirri
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Design Museum, LondonThis astounding exhibition reveals the obsessive level of genius the great director showed, whether inventing the space age – or restaging the Vietnam war in a London gas works
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German photographer Bernhard Lang first became fascinated with aerial views while on travelling passenger planes. Now, taking photographs out of an open helicopter door is his main practice, offering a new perspective on the world below.
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In the heart of Barcelona, in the Poblenou technology district, a lofty timber-framed village theatre had been adapted into a warehouse. Now, the building has been adapted for a new use as a live/work space – and named ‘The Theatre’ in honour of its co…
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Inhabitat
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A garden doesn't have to be a place of formality. Instead, let it go wild and save time, money and resources while improving the sustainability of your space.
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Farm.One is an urban hydroponic farm that utilizes technology to grow extremely, rare edible plants.
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