Design
This gracefully-looking office building is Australia’s tallest timber structure
An Australian architecture firm decided to put steel and concrete away and turn to sustainable highly engineered wooden materials instead, to build the country’s tallest timber structure. The building tastefully pairs its wooden skeleton with a shimmering glass facade, leaving the exposed timber Read More...
These cool windows are made out of transparent wood
A group of scientists developed a transparent window made out of wood that could potentially revolutionize this basic necessity of a home. Compared to glass, the see-through-wood window is less likely to break or shatter, is a better thermal insulator, and distributes light evenly preventing Read More...
Take a look at what the future of innovative design holds for us
The Global Grad Show is an annual exhibition that unveils the most startling and innovative creations of students from the world’s leading design schools. This year’s edition displayed 150 inventions cleverly designed to make our lives easier. Check them out here to get an idea of how the next Read More...
This multi-directional wind turbine could change the wind power game
A remarkable wind turbine design that may soon revolutionize the way we use wind to harness energy has won an international innovation award. The device represents a spinning 25cm sphere with geometric vents at different angles that allow for wind to be captured from many different directions. This Read More...
Your future smartphone could fix its broken screen by pulling carbon from the air
Carbon-fixing materials — substances powered by the sun that use atmospheric carbon dioxide to grow and repair themselves, just as plants do — don’t yet exist outside the lab. But scientists are getting tantalizingly close to making them a commercial Read More...
French car-pool app Blablacar branching into bus lines
French car ride-sharing app Blablacar said on Monday it had offered to buy Ouibus, a bus operator owned by state rail firm SNCF, in the first major departure from its digital business model toward building a broader transport company. Blablacar did not disclose financial terms but said it had also Read More...
This ingenious hack turns anti-terror bollards into furniture
In the last few years, vehicle-aided terrorism has become a horrible reality for many cities. To protect pedestrians, cities have expanded efforts to install street bollards, peppering the urban landscape with these three-foot-high metal Read More...
Riding your bike in this city gets you free beer and ice cream
If you’ve ever felt that your green credentials have gone unrewarded, it might be worth considering a move to the Italian city of Bologna. For six months a year, an initiative called Bella Mossa (“Good Job”) operates within the city, which rewards users of sustainable forms of transport Read More...
These beautiful energy-efficient homes were built in a factory
A company in Quebec has introduced a factory-built house to the market that runs entirely on solar power. Even though the house takes only five days to assemble, the look and feel of the home is that of a chic, modern living space. What’s more, the home costs no more than $147 per square meter Read More...
Buildings could soon be constructed using concrete solar panels
One ton of CO2 is generated by making one ton of cement, which is made from limestone and a few other things heated to an extremely high temperature. But what if concrete could generate its own energy? It seems we’re getting very close to that reality after the world’s largest cement maker Read More...