Eco Factor: Residential towers with common green space.
When asked to design a residential complex for Songdo Landmark City, Seoul, the NY-based architecture firm REX came up with some really anemic skyscrapers. The towers, called Block A4,…
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Eco Factor: Multipurpose hall designed to bring light and life.
Living with our surrounding environment in an organic way is what future living demands. Aimed at doing just that is the “Poly Morphisme” by French architect Olivier Brouillard…
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Eco Factor: Bridge designed to harness solar energy for supporting utilities over it.
A 1080-meter bridge over the Han River, which is named after the Korean video and media artist Nam June Paik, will soon connect the Dang-Li power plant with the..
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Eco Factor: Zero-emission vehicle powered by electricity.
Mitsubishi Motors Corp and Yamato Transport Co Ltd has started a field test of an electric pickup and delivery vehicle that has been prototyped by Mitsubishi Motors. The vehicle has been…
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Eco Factor: Wind heater harnesses wind energy for cooking and heating purposes.
The Wind Heater by Korean designer Jihae Kim presents a sustainable technological heating solution during harsh winters. The aim of the concept is to utilize wind…
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Eco Factor: Innovatively designed wind farm harnesses wind energy to generate power.
New York-based design firm Atelier DNA has devised a wind farm concept with an aim to combine aesthetics with clean energy generation. Dubbed as Windstalk…
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Eco Factor: Researchers plan to clean lake water using micro-bubbles.
Researchers at the University of Utah have developed a process in which polluted water or soil is infused with pressurized ozone gas micro-bubbles to clean it. The bubbles are..
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Eco Factor: Electric utility vehicle with NoViSim’s sound system to alert pedestrians of approaching vehicles.
Everyday our newspapers write about a couple of road fatality incidences. This is the scenario when we can hear noisy carbon guzzlers…
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Eco Factor: Energy-efficient house gets powered by renewable solar energy.
The Department of Energy has just recently approved Team Tennessee Living Light’s Request for Proposal and the Competitive Stage Schematic Design for the 2011 Solar…
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Eco Factor: Energy-efficient house reduce energy costs up to 90 percent.
Joining the group of the so-called “rare” green houses of the U.S. is a new kind of extremely energy-efficient home being built at 4717 North Chelsea Lane in Bethesda, MD. Present
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