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Tag Archive | "city"
F1 Engineer Designs Tiny 74-MPG City Car
A new ultra-compact city car designed by Formula One engineer Gordon Murray is smaller than a Smart car, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in efficiency, averaging 74 MPG. The T.25 is a well-designed vehicle. The 4-feet-wide by eight-feet-long car features a customizable interior that can be configured in six ways to [...]
Continue reading...China Park: Chinese style ecologically friendly future city
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Only time can tell whether Gu Wenda’s China Park could one day become Chinese equivalent to New York’s Central Park, or not. The very fact that a thoughtful soul came forward with an idea of growing a green paradise in the center of a Chinese city suffocated with concrete and polluting vehicles gives respite. Internationally renowned [...]
Continue reading...Green Float – A carbon negative floating city featuring the world’s tallest building
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Eco Factor: Sustainable city concept designed to be powered by renewable energy. A team of scientists, engineers and financers in Japan have begun work on a project that will make the Burj Khalifa in Dubai look tiny. The team is aiming to build a tower that is 1km tall and has a vertical farm balanced [...]
Continue reading...Stylish Potenza promises an eco-friendly city ride
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Each day we come across new designs and technologies that promise to make commutation lot easier for us in the future. Designed by Nicolás A. Jara, Potenza an innovative four- wheeled vehicle too reassures us with the same. Two aspects draw your attention towards Potenza. Firstly, its’ operational part for which, Potenza exploits human energy. The [...]
Continue reading...Solar City Tower by RAFAA turns into an urban waterfall to generate energy
Friday, March 19, 2010
Eco Factor: Self-sustaining tower designed for Olympic Games 2016. RAFAA Architecture & Design has proposed a self-sustaining tower for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro. Dubbed Solar City Tower, the architecture will help Rio start a global green movement for sustainable development of urban structures.
Continue reading...Green up the painted lines
Friday, April 3, 2009
If you live in a concrete jungle you may see thousands of painted lines across the city. The space they required is very hig, but here’s a design concept that may create a useful solution to forget them once and for all. Designer Ji-Hye Koo created a special “tape” what you can use on these [...]
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
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