Design

Blob Helps You Work and Store Stuff in Small Spaces (video)

Karin Kloosterman - December 6, 2013

Not ready for Christmas, just yet, this Israeli multi-purpose desk design and storage unit could be on a green shopper's list next year if...

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Handmade Earthen Hookah Pipe Adds Class to Middle East Past Time

Tafline Laylin - December 5, 2013

Everywhere in the Middle East, in cities or rural villages, you will inevitably find people sucking on tall, usually cheaply made shisha pipes made...

Design

The Wheel House is a Tiny Home Tossed About by a Fictional Sea

Tafline Laylin - December 4, 2013

What's it like to live on a boat? In such cramped spaces and always subject to nature's whim, otherwise reasonable people can go mad...

Design

Flexible Solar Canopy to Cover Dubai’s 2020 Expo Pavilions

Tafline Laylin - December 2, 2013

An enormous flexible canopy of photovoltaic cells will shade the pavilions at Dubai's 2020 expo, an innovative step towards greater energy efficiency for the...

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Can Microsoft’s High-Tech Smart Bra Curb Appetite?

Faisal O'Keefe - December 5, 2013

A day late and an undergarment short! The morning after Thanksgiving, I read about a new stress-busting bra that could’ve kept me from, once...

Design

Hundreds of Xerox Paper Strips Make Extraordinary Recycled Curtains

Tafline Laylin - November 28, 2013

Israelis are well known for being industrious - especially when it comes to turning innocuous every day materials such as tomato cans, or in...

Design

Comparing Qatar Stadium to a Vagina is “Ridiculous” Says Zaha Hadid

Tafline Laylin - November 27, 2013

I never thought that I would agree with Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi starchitect who has failed time and again to support the green building...

Design

Japan’s Sou Fujimoto Re-Imagines Doha with Modular Stacked Arches

Tafline Laylin - November 22, 2013

Qatar is undergoing a massive change, and many of the world's top architects are hoping to become a part of the action. Zaha Hadid...

Design

Bees Trained to Detect Cancer and TB on Human Breath

Tafline Laylin - November 21, 2013

It turns out that bees are not only essential to global food production, they also make amazing sniffer "dogs." Which is how Portuguese designer...

Design

Oil-Rich Qatar Takes Eco Expertise to Philadelphia’s Famous Greenbuild

Tafline Laylin - November 20, 2013

The Qatar Foundation is distinguishing itself as a leader at Greenbuild, the world's largest gathering of green building pioneers in Philadelphia, where Hilary Clinton...

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