Design

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

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

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

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...

Bees Trained to Detect Cancer and TB on Human Breath

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

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

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...

5 Steps to a Carbon Neutral World Cup in Qatar

Qatar has promised a carbon neutral 2022 World Cup, but we know from the Masdar City experiment how hard that is to achieve. Still,...

Design a Bridge for the Strait of Hormuz – Crucial Passage for Global Oil

It is one of the most important bodies of water in the world, the only one to link the Persian Gulf with the open...

Solar-Powered ‘Desert Cascades’ Cube Gushes Water in the Desert

The same team behind SunGlacier, an extraordinary solar-powered artificial leaf that produces ice in the middle of the desert, has come up with a...

Wearable Boutonnière Vase Keeps Floral Scents Close to Your Chest

Israeli designer Omer Polak has designed an adorable wearable vase that keeps a flower or herbs close to the wearer's chest. The Boutonnière is a...

Naive Israeli Startup Tricks Beirut Designers into Doing Illegal Business

Creativity, like nature, knows no borders, and we're all about putting politics aside for the greater good, but a pair of naive American women...

Paris Tower “Graffed” by Arab Street Artists, Then Destroyed (VIDEO)

The world's biggest street art exhibition was demolished this week in Paris just one month after opening to the public. Destruction of the wildly...

World’s First ‘Green’ Ice Cream Factory – in Turkey

Turkey is better known for these five unsustainable development projects and a new undersea rail tunnel near a major fault zone than green building....

Cricket Bike Alarm is Silent and Barely Bigger than a Bottle Cap

Israeli designers are working hard to curb bicycle theft. One group came up with the "fashionable" Foldylock and the Spine Bike breaks when stolen....

The Shard Architect Designs Ultra Lightweight Dragonfly Wind Turbine

The Shard architect Renzo Piano has partnered with Italy's Enel Green Power to design a new ultra lightweight wind turbine that has a smaller...

Sneak Peek at World’s Largest Women-Only University in Saudi Arabia

Most westerners imagine that Saudi women are completely deprived of opportunity, and in some cases that may be true, but the world's largest women-only...

Abandoned Dubai Flyover Resembles Easter Island Sculptures

Continuing the theme of mysterious abandoned developments, the identity of this one is better known than the desert lakes I featured in my previous...

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Bathroom dad Tyler Brodsky shows us why Americans need more common sense

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