Content by: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) – www.big.dk
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BIG + realities:united + AKT + Topotek 1 & Man Made Land is selected to design the new Waste-to-Energy Plant that doubles as a ski slope for Copenhagen’s citizens and its many visitors by 2016.
Located in an industrial area near the city center the new Waste-to-Energy plant will be an exemplary model in the field of waste management and energy production, as well as an architectural landmark in the cityscape of Copenhagen. The project is the single largest environmental initiative in Denmark with a budget of 3,5 Billion DKK, and replaces the adjacent 40 year old Amagerforbraending plant, integrating the latest technologies in waste treatment and environmental performance. The shortlisted offices included Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Dominique Perrault Architecture, 3xN, Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects & Gottlieb Paludan Architects who were selected to compete out of 36 international proposals in Fall 2010. The winning team is announced by an unanimous judge panel.
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Content by: One Love Organics – www.oneloveorganics.com
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One Love Organics is a natural, ethical and environmentally driven cosmetics company created by skilled cosmetic artisans. Their products are hand-made and hand-filled, using only the highest grade of ethically sourced raw materials to ensure the most effective, luxurious and guilt-free application.
The philosophy is focused on a few supreme products – not up – selling a medicine cabinet full of mysterious jars. One Love Organics give skin what it needs, using only ingredients that provide direct benefits.And because their products are so pure, they work for everyone in the family, from the newest babies to greatest of grandmas.
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Content by: Dagný Bjarnadóttir – www.furnibloom.com
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The Furnibloom is made of 1 cm thick plexiglass (acrylic glazing) and is glued together on the corners. The table plate has various positions based on utility and it can be kept either open or closed. Ventilation holes on all sides enable the plants to breath and grow.
The prototype has been stored outdoors since 2007 and despite the harsh weather conditions in Iceland; the product has kept its shine and glossy outlook.
On the Furniture Fair in Stockholm a new version of the chair was launched, it´s a chair that can be packet in a flat package and is put together without glue. This method simplifies transport and sales process. Furnibloom Sprouts is also new product a miniature of the original furniture made for windowsill to grow herbs and sprouts.
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Content by: Tiago Barros – www.tiagobarros.eu
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Passing Cloud is a recently submitted project for the international ideas competition: Life at the Speed of Rail, organized by Van Alen Institute and partly funded by the Department of Cultural affairs of New York City.
Although it wasn’t one of the winning proposals, Passing Cloud reveals a strong conceptual approach that is worth noting: It is a new vision on traveling, based on the old Zeppelins.
Nowadays, traveling is achieved with this idea of having a fixed destination and an estimated time of arrival. Passing Cloud completely inverts this system. A floating device is introduced that travels around the entire USA territory according to current predominant winds. It has no fixed time of arrival or place for arrival. The journey becomes the essence. Imagine traveling at wind speeds in a totally sustainable object that leaves no Human trace behind.
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Content by: 1024 Architecture – www.1024architecture.net
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A restaurant/bar/open-air café positioned on Île Seguin in the middle of a temporary garden whilst waiting for the architect Jean Nouvel’s macro project to be implemented, Les Grandes Tables de L’ile is a place to meet, for haute cuisine and why not even parties to accompany the reconstruction of this island steeped in history.
The project is an architectural hybridization between an agricultural greenhouse, a barge and a timber-frame house. Modelled after a large wood fibre box suspended in a scaffold structure from which freight containers are hanging, all encompassed beneath a transparent umbrella… An eye-catching iconoclastic assemblage with an area of 300m2 to accommodate120 covers and the cuisine of Arnaud Daguin, a chef with stars to his name.
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Content by: Stefano Merlo – www.stefanomerlo.com
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BirdPot is a product that aims to create a stronger connection between human and nature, and to raise awareness about the environment by giving constructive inputs to children.
BirdPot is composed by a pot, a wooden stick with two small rest branches and a dish. It is meant to facilitate the feeding of small birds, especially during the winter when for them finding food becomes very hard. Instead of flowers in the terrace or in the garden, the user can take care of birds by filling the dish with spare breadcrumbs that otherwise would be trashed. The product can be planted directly on the ground in the garden or just kept in its own pot, and in this latter case you can also grow plants to make it look more natural.
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