Designer and inventor extraordinaire Knut Karlsen recently unveiled an inspired approach to portable power that can’t be beat for its elegant simplicity: a prototype battery capable of charging itself when exposed to sunshine. His slick set of SunCat C-cells are wrapped in flexible photovoltaic panels and will slowly recharge when left to bask in the sun - just like a cat. Rechargeable batteries..
Architects: Work AC / Dan Wood and Amale Andraos Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox A Hutong on top of an Onion This house is part of the “Ordos 100″ project of 100 speculative villas to be built in Inner Mongolia, Chin..
This project is an expansion of the existing offices of the project developer Vanhaerents. Vanhaerents is a developer who consistently chooses for projects that can stand the test of time. These projects may vary from residential and office buildings, over schools, hospitals and even sports infrastructure. Managing director Joost Vanhaerents continuously seeks out new frames of thought and opted..
Client: DesignMai 2005 / Projekt 0047 Project: Cabin for exhibition, 7 sqm Location: Berlin Contractor: Klöpferholz GmbH from bkark
The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control Complex is s project of pivotal importance as we move into a new century of connection and exchange. While the mixing of world cultures has brought new insight into our common humanities, it has also enabled the spread of unwanted diseases and infections throughout the distant regions of the world. from gageclemenceau
Designer: mlzd architekten Location: Wettingen, Switzerland Image Credits: Dominique Marc Wehrli from spaceinvading
> HQ/Operations Terminal Building Client: TAG Farnborough Airport Ltd International design competition win to deliver a new business aviation airport. The project includes a 4,000sqm operations and headquarters building, which won a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award. Innovations & Added Value Innovative operations building design delivered under budget; 25,000 aluminium shingles..
Berlin architects Sauerbruch Hutton have completed the new Brandhorst Museum in Munich, Germany. The building is clad in 36,000 ceramic rods in 23 different colours, arranged vertically over a horizontally striped, sheet-metal skin. “Between an angled view, in which the ceramic rods merge visually into a solid plane, and the frontal view, in which the mineral layer parts to let the horizontally ..
