Hey European Design Fans!The London Design Festival kicks off next week from September 18th-25th, and Inhabitat is looking for a few great correspondents to help us cover this year’s show! This is an incredible opportunity to get a press pass to the show to check out the most exciting emerging ...
California artists Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector recently constructed this incredible towering obelisk made entirely out of bikes on a street corner in Santa Rosa. Dubbed Cyclisk, the monument is an ode to bike culture constructed from 340 bicycles and one tricycle.Read the rest of Artists Build ...
If you like Philippe Starck’s Louis Ghost Chair, we think you’ll also enjoy this vintage boudoir set that’s ghastly not because it’s clear, but because it was raised from the dead! That’s right, this beautiful piece started life as a music cabinet found in a Parisian...
The Solar Ibex is a high-performance, outdoor, user friendly solar cooker with an auto-tracking sun ray concentrator. It allows for adjustable cooking times and can heat up to 300 degrees Celsius, which makes it a great off-grid solution for your cooking, boiling, and baking needs. Foldable, ligh...
Germans are well-known for their stellar beers, so it’s no wonder that the country is brewing a mix of international designers inspired by the locally bottled beverages. Designed by François-Xavier Loucheur for Kix Studio, the Flaschenlampe is a nouveau lighting piece made out of beer and soda...
Read the rest of “Bicycle Portraits” Raise Cycling Awareness in South Africahttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/oht ... eral.php?page=better_feedPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: bicycle, carbon, cycles, independence, Photography, South Africa
Read the rest of Sustainable Bamboo Pavilion for Communal Livinghttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/oht ... eral.php?page=better_feedPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: bamboo, bamboo pavilion, communal living, communal shelter, eco design, eco-materials, esan rahmani, green architecture,...
Swedish researchers have devised a way to turn bioluminescent jellyfish into solar cells. It works like this: the green fluorescent protein (GFP) that makes the Aequorea victoria glow is simply dripped onto a silicon dioxide substrate between two electrodes. The protein works itself into strands ...
Here at Inhabitat we love hearing about multi-national corporations undertaking incredible measures to become more Earth friendly, so with the recent announcement that all of Sunny Delight’s US and Spanish companies have gone certifiable zero waste to landfill, we’re inclined to give them...
Read the rest of Gridded Modular Eco Home in the Hills Outside Sao Paulohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/oht ... eral.php?page=better_feedPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", Brazil, eco design, eco home, eco residence, forte gimenes & marcondes ferraz AR...