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The designer of the project 21 Diagonal Towers is Mark Curtis Josem of Malaysia who has created a prototype structure, shaped like a buckyball, that would function like an urban farm. This would provide commercial areas, housing, offices, ecological engin

Designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects, the Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House is one of the biggest home for transplant patients in the USA. Developed in Philadelphia, this project proves to be a ‘home away from home’ for the patients residing here.

The technology world’s quest for microchips that do not eat up power when the appliances are on ‘standby’ has been realized by a group of Japanese scientists. Japanese IT company NEC Corporation (NEC) and researchers at Tohoku University developed t

As we know itPetrol burning personal cars, about 50 million of them produced per year, account for some 20% of the 8000 million tons of CO2 that we infuse into the atmosphere annually. The world is therefore looking at electric cars as an important step t

To have safe operations, aircraft fuselages are frequently inspected for faults. But, some of the glitches can be missed by human eyes. Therefore, to be extra cautious and to avoid accidents, researchers from EADS Germany in cooperation with the Vienna In

Scottish Power, National Grid and Shell UK, the three energy giants of UK have proposed to lay onshore CO2 pipeline to transport 2 million tons of CO2 from different industrial sources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They will utilize the existing na

Pope Benedict XVI, also known as the ‘Green Pope’, will be seen riding his new ‘green’, zero emissions Popemobile! Mercedes-Benz has designed and made this hybrid electric-petrol motor Popemobile that is modeled on the M Class Mercedes (4-wheel drive).

Hospital Casa Azul is a proposed project by Bernadette Martinez for building a dental hospital that particularly provides expertise for children suffering from cleft palate. The hospital would be located in Monterrey, in northeastern Mexico and is known f

With the continuous price hike in car fuel, the automobile industry is coming up with promising concepts of electric vehicles (EV). One of the latest of such concepts comes from FDK Corp and Takayanagi Co Ltd. Exhibited at the Automotive Next Industry Fai

What’s happening right now?Photovoltaics presently conjure up the image in our minds of flat panel solar cells, fitted typically on flat roof tops, slanted at an angle towards the sun to harvest solar power. Almost all of these flat panel solar cells were