William McDonough: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle
Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account “all children, all species, for all time.”
View ArticleRachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?
Venice, Italy is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive...
View ArticleRobert Hammond: Building a park in the sky
New York was planning to tear down the High Line, an abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan, when Robert Hammond and a few friends suggested: Why not make it a park? He shares how it happened ...
View ArticleAlex Steffen: The shareable future of cities
How can cities help save the future? Alex Steffen shows some cool neighborhood-based green projects that expand our access to things we want and need — while reducing the time we spend in cars. FIND ...
View ArticleYour Street Challenge
The Your Street Challenge invites creative proposals for how an aspect of Cape Town street life can be enhanced through the power of design. BRINGING DESIGN TO YOUR STREET CHALLENGE Most every designer...
View ArticleThe Venus Project
The Venus Project advocates an alternative vision for a sustainable new world civilization unlike any socio-economic system that has gone before. It calls for a straightforward redesign of a culture,...
View ArticleCape Town 2014 on film: What does design need to solve for you?
At the 2012 Design Indaba Expo, visitors to the World Design Capital 2014 stand were offered a pencil and post-it note, and invited to answer this question: “What does design need to solve for you?”...
View ArticleHemp House
Watch this Top Billing insert that features a green home made entirely from Hemp! The Hemp House in Noordhoek, is built by Hemporium's Tony Budden and Duncan Parker.
View ArticleEco Box
South African architects, Wolf and Melanie of Wolf and Wolf Architects are creating unique pre-fab homes that demonstrate compact living that maximises space and minimises environmental impact. Their...
View ArticleRoll it Home
Imagine a home that could transform with the spin of a wheel! The Roll It experimental house designed by students at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, cleverly incorporates multiple uses inside...
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