It beat out a German art gallery designed by David Chipperfield and a vehicle-free bridge in Denmark.
Sustainable Design
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A Japanese Designer’s Vision for Beautiful, Sustainable Textiles
“Our guiding principle is to make things that don’t get old and thrown away,” says Sudō Reiko.
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Olafur Eliasson Partners with IKEA to Spark Affordable Solar Energy Products
A new partnership is slated to bring affordable energy and light to IKEA consumers around the world.
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Building with Bricks Made from Industrial Waste
In August, a pair of architects will move into their new home in Rotterdam. Its rising walls are built of tan-colored bricks that, to the eye, seem like your typical building materials, but they are actually made entirely out of waste.
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A Century of Wild and Utopian Experiments with Self-Sustaining Worlds
Can a house sustain itself by eating its own tail?
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The Marvels of India’s Maze-like Stepwells
For the past four years, journalist Victoria Lautman has been photographing an overlooked feature of Indian architectural history: the stepwell.
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Turning Power Plants into Public Art
What if artists could use their know-how to engage in a practice that actually brings about real change?