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Design inspired by nature
What inspires a number of design students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology? Quite simply: nature’s genius.
Imagine the building you’re in right now functioned like a tree. This tree would harvest the energy of the people living, breathing and moving in it to run the air-conditioning and lights. It would compost the waste you produce to help grow the food you’ll eat for lunch...
Source: Cape Town 2014 World Design Capital
UN Secretary-General calls for Action to Achieve Sustainable Energy for All by 2030
16 January 2012, Abu Dhabi -- In his keynote address today to the World Future Energy Summit, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on governments, the private sector, and civil society to make significant commitments to action in support of his Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. His call to action underscores the importance of energy to sustainable development, and contributes to the global launch of 2012 as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
Source: Sustainable Energy for All
Translucent wood?
If you thought that see-through concrete was an amazing material innovation, the refined-looking wooden counterpart may dazzle you even more. And with the core technology now fully developed, the sky is the limit – virtually any material can be made to let light pass through it.
Source: Dornob.com Design Ideas Daily
Living Space
Culture, memory, history and public space are contested concepts at the best of times, but in post-apartheid South Africa these contests have become visceral parts of everyday life. The cultural precinct at Red Location, a township outside South Africa’s fifth largest city and the Detroit of Africa, Port Elizabeth, unpacks those concepts, reflecting its architect Jo Noero’s belief that ‘architecture should be a way of opening up minds’.
Source: Architectural Review
Arch Daily Round Up - Stadiums Part V
Some great projects for the 5th selection of previously featured stadiums by ArchDaily. A project designed by the 2011 Pritzker Prize winner Eduardo Souto de Moura, one stadium for the Qatar World Cup 2022, two great concepts for future stadiums and one classic for the Olympics of 1972...
Source: ArchDaily
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