environmental design
This Is the Fair Trade Footwear You've Been Waiting For
French company Veja turn fish-farmed tilapia skin, recycled rubber, fair trade canvas, and recycled plastic bottles into bold sneakers.
Making Smoke Stacks Blow Rings Can Help the Environment
Bjarke Ingels Group is raising funds to install a giant shame-generator in Copenhagen.
The "World's First" Smog-Eating Tower Breaks Ground in Rotterdam
Plus: for the cost of a few cubic feet of clean air, you can get a piece of jewelry made from smog.
A Giant Beehive for Humans Is Buzzing in Milan
Artist Wolfgang Buttress orchestrates an audiovisual augmented reality honeybee experience for the UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo.
Let's Bring This Forest to Times Square
Ecologist Marielle Anzelone needs your help to make 'PopUP Forest: Times Square' a reality.
Mirrored Disco Ball Wins MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
Visitors to this year's 2015 Warm Up summer music series at MoMA PS1 will get to party inside a moving, glowing water-purifier.
New Building Facade Will Absorb The Smog In Milan
The stunning Palazzo Italia, built for the upcoming Milan Expo 2015, turns pollutants into inert salts.
Air-Purifying Billboard In Downtown Lima Filters As Much Pollution As 1,200 Trees
The ingenious invention from the University of Engineering and Technology of Peru is providing much-needed air purification for the nascent metropolis.
New Seoul Skyscraper Is Both A Dynamic Nightlight And Indoor Climate Controller
The LED pixels are described as "gently shifting constellations of light."