Content by: Modus V Studio Architects – www.modusvarchitects.com
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The Green Concept Home is a two-story single-family residence located in Bellevue, WA. This 2,840 sq.ft house has a contemporary design and is owned, designed and built by husband and wife team David Huang and Millie Leung. David is an entrepreneur and the principal architect of architectural design firm “Modus V Studio Architects”. The house broke ground in September 2009 and was completed in September 2010. It is the first house in Bellevue, WA to be both Built Green and LEED certified.
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Virtue of Blue, a chandelier playfully exploring an economy of light through innovative materials. Powered by sapphire-blue solar panel cells, the piece is intrinsically self-sustaining as it absorbs the energy of daylight to fuel its own illumination. The cells have been cut into the shapes of four different breeds of butterfly which seem to flutter around a central flame-like hand-blown glass bulb, their iridescent wings glinting in the light. In reality, butterflies physiologically power their own bodies, using their wings to absorb the rays of the sun in order to increase and then sustain their own body temperatures, necessary for their survival.
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Content by: NEX – www.nex-architecture.com
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- NEX – Alan Dempsey, Paul Loh, Michal Piasecki, Tomasz Starczewski, James Chung
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NEX and Marcus Barnett complete innovative ‘bio-mimicry’ design for The Times Eureka Pavilion at Chelsea Flower Show.
NEX is delighted to contribute to creating a benchmark in integrated design at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show (Tuesday May 24th to Saturday May 28th) working with Buro Happold and Chelsea Gold Medallist Marcus Barnett on the creation of a pavilion for The Times Eureka Garden, in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Content by: Studio Pepe Heykoop – www.pepeheykoop.nl
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Furnitures covered up in leather leftovers.
The 25-30 percent waste of leather in the furniture industry triggered Pepe Heykoop to make something beautiful. Covers out of waste.
This project is fed by leather scrap, turning it into random skin patterns, refering to cell structures and growth in nature. The furnitures used are existing, modified and therefore sometimes slightly seem to grow. Recycling old furnitures and leatherscrap into fairytale furnitures.
Materials: mainly existing chairs, wood, metal, foam, glue, leather
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Content by: Ett La Benn – www.ettlabenn.com
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The ‘kami’ collection of pots/vases/home lighting encourage a new way of thinking in eco-friendly lifestyle products.
Made from 100% biodegradable cellulose, an enormously solid and light material, ‘kami’ transforms this most abundant natural raw material into objects for daily use by simple air drying.
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Content by: MVRDV – www.mvrdv.nl
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Amsterdam based project development corporation NIC started sale of the MVRDV designed Alphabet building. In Amsterdam small and mid-size creative companies have trouble finding suitable office space. The Alphabet building communicates through a clear exterior design which reveals on the East façade the house number and at the main façade its extension for each company, a letter of the alphabet. The interior is highly flexible and completed with a rough and pure finishing. The 3200m2 creative industry building will be completed in 2012 according to high energy efficiency standards.
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