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Sustainable Architecture: a contest for young women | Channelbeta
Back to the appointment with the Sustainable Architecture Competition, sponsored by the ROS (a company owned by Fiera Roma and Senaf) to enhance the work in the field of sustainable design of the young Italian graduates in architecture and engineering. A requirement that, according to organizers, was created to counter the lack of attention given to women who choose the profession of designer.
As this article asks, " Who was Murphy and Why Is There a Bed Named After Him "? And you know how we love articles about the history of the Murphy Bed (see the next posts - revivals of old ones we did years back). There are multiple stories about Murphy and why he made the folding bed (Murphy bed).
Murphy Bed Blog — Solutions for Small Spaces
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Blog Archive » “And the Great Furniture Festival Begins” – Alice Rawsthorn
Slideshow: the undulating oak underbelly of four auditoriums bursts through the glazed facade of this concert hall in Kristiansand, Norway. More » London designers Studio Toogood will create a “hospital for the senses” at MOST in Milan next month as an antidote to the hustle and bustle of the furniture fair. More » This week we announced our plans for Milan during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, with Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox setting up camp at new design centre MOST , where we’ll be filming a daily TV show with interviews, news and even weather reports.
Dezeen architecture and design magazine
Places Hadley Arnold & Peter Arnold The massive hydrological infrastructure of the 20th century was based on the optimistic and technocratic presumption that water — and the cheap energy needed to transport it great distances — would be indefinitely and predictably available. But as Peter Arnold and Hadley Arnold, of the Arid Lands Institute, argue, the American system is now "nearly obsolete." Water is rapidly becoming, they argue, "the largest and least understood environmental challenge of the 21st century."
Design Observer
Decomodo
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[Image: From Papillon , courtesy of Warner Brothers ]. Breaking Out and Breaking In: A Distributed Film Fest of Prison Breaks and Bank Heists —co-sponsored by BLDGBLOG, Filmmaker Magazine , and Studio-X NYC —continued recently with Papillon (1973), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. [Image: From Papillon , courtesy of Warner Brothers ]. Papillon remains one of my favorite films, since first seeing it as a teenager (though I will come back to that at the end); however, as usual for this series, I will try to limit myself to the spatial and/or architectural themes of at play in the movie. In a nutshell, Papillon tells the story of Papillon (played by Steve McQueen), imprisoned in the overseas penal colony of Caribbean French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America.
eVolo | Architecture Magazine
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The story of a man who is “subverting conventional building practice with an act of permanence, constructing an energy-efficient, multi-century legacy home for the price of a vinyl-clad, production-built box.”
Magazine - GreenBuilder
In our constant pursuit for greater corporate sustainability, we realized that, like great homes and products, Green Builder Magazine has to provide long-term value to our readers in order to have a prolonged shelf-life. Therefore, each issue is a themed guide, enabling our readers to build a useful reference library comprised of our back issues. Our content is more comprehensive and engaging than ever. We're focusing not just on the design and construction of environmentally appropriate, cost-effective buildings, but also on the larger topic of sustainable living. Be sure to use your smart phones to scan the barcodes within the pages of the magazine for quick access to websites, videos, sweepstakes, discounts, calendars, emails and more.February 2011 | Metropolis Magazine
By Jonathan Glancey Mixing influences from East and West, the vernacular and the modern, Doshi Levien creates precision-tooled products with the look and feel of the handmade.Sustainable Industries | The Business Source for Leaders of the New Economy
May 24 Geneva, GE This complimentary webinar is to provide an initial overview of the soon to be released ISO 20121 standard for sustainable event management. Jun 4 - Jun 7 San Diego, CA In 2012 the Sustainability Revolution picks up steam.Shimmering golden silk screens adorn realised French Embassy in Beijing Form follows function in this golden composition by SAREA Alain Sarfati Architecture and GINGER SECHAUD & BOSSUYT in Beijing. The newly completed French Embassy in China spreads over 20,000 sq m and places interior comfort over extravagant design yet manages to retain an integral elegance and charm synonymous with French design. A granite forecourt welcomes visitors towards two access points; one formal into the reception rooms, the other less formal at the base of the service tower. This service tower is comprised of a series of interlocking golden glass veils which refract the sunlight giving a warm glow to the space within.
World Architecture News, Official Home Page, architecture news, architecture jobs
Greetings again from the $300 house project team here at Tuck school of Business at Dartmouth! To recap our updates thus far, we have introduced our team (here) , we gave a brief update when we were in India with couple of photos , and followed it up with more photos on our return to US. We also wrote a brief blog regarding some high-level insights from our India trip (here) . Over the past 2-1/2 months, we have focused on determining what would it take to make this project a reality in India.