How do you make pickling, canning, and composting workshops fun? If you’re the Ecology Center, you take them on the road with a brightly colored double decker bus housing a prep kitchen and garden inside. The Ecology Center calls this bus “Road Trip,” and it’s been making appearances all over California. The “mobile ecological experience” hit the streets earlier this […]

Imagine if there were comfortable and inexpensive wearable fabrics that were capable of detecting a wide range of pressure and motion. Well, scientists at the University of Delaware have created just such a technology, and it could have some interesting applications. Developed by a team led by associate professor Erik Thostenson and doctoral student Sagar Doshi, the base of the […]

The narrow dead-end streets that stop and start through the city blocks of Tokyo are a distinctive, if not entirely useful, part of the city landscape. Rather than closing itself off to these pint-sized cul-de-sacs, Pluszero’s recently completed House in Ouji opens itself right up. Half of the home resembles an extension of the road while serving as an owner’s […]

We already have shoes made out of trash from Adidas, so why not footwear made out of corn from Reebok? The global footwear and apparel firm this week launched its first shoe that’s “made from things that grow.” The stylish-looking sustainable sneaker features a woven upper made entirely from organic cotton, a base originating from industrial-grown corn, and an insole […]

Studio Morison has unveiled a stunning round shelter clad in a membrane of yellow PVC and aluminum mesh – and it just might help see you through the apocalypse. The artists behind the Escape Vehicle #9 shelter, Heather and Ivan Morison, explain that its design was inspired by their vision of a future world where nature has reclaimed the planet. […]

When Cyclone Maria hit Rockhampton, Queensland in 2015, the whole community quickly joined forces to repair and rebuild local homes and businesses. Now, one of the most prized assets of the community, the Rockhampton Riverside Precinct, is getting a major makeover — led by Woods Bagot— that everyone can enjoy. The massive riverfront pier site suffered from neglect even before the […]

Zaha Hadid Architects recently unveiled a new skyscraper for a tourist area in Malta. Named Mercury Tower, it features a distinctive twisting form and, assuming it goes ahead, will be joined onto an existing building on the site that was originally constructed in the early 20th century. Mercury Tower is the main part of a development that will also involve […]

Call us old-fashioned, but we think that for a dwelling to be considered a real tree house, it must actually be connected to a tree. Still, what it lacks in trees, the Treewow O – A Tree House of Curved Round Roof more than makes up for with a stunning undulating roof. The Treewow O – A Tree House of […]

A former bank in downtown Jyväskylä, Finland, has been converted into a modern hostel by Studio Puisto Architects making use of the empty 1953 building. They skipped the typical hostel go-to of dormitory style rooms and instead created smaller, private bedrooms with public spaces surrounding them. On top of the mini bedrooms, Hostel Jyväskylä offers a full restaurant along with […]

High-tech outdoor clothing company Vollebak likes going mad with gadgetry and advanced materials, and its latest jacket takes highly desirable geek unobtanium to dangerous levels. It’s called the Graphene Jacket, and it’s a jacket … with graphene. “Part coat, part science experiment,” the Graphene Jacket features a coating of everyone’s favourite nanomaterial. It’s unclear exactly what benefit there is to […]