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Ceramics made of reclaimed industrial waste by-products
Called Circular Ceramics, Sara Howard designed a tableware collection made of reclaimed industrial waste by-products, aiming to minimise the consumption of finite raw materials and to divert waste away from the landfill. In ceramic manufacturing, ...
Read more >A timber and polycarbonate deployable grid shell
Designed by Spanish architectural studio Map13 Barcelona, in collaboration with Dutch Summum Engineering and Swiss Edyta Augustynowicz, the Portalen Pavilion is a public art piece consisting of a lightweight timber canopy with curved edges and ...
Read more >An audio system made of glass
A team from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands developed a home audio system called Ammos, which plays music through a plane of glass. Customer products are often hardly sustainable, with poor product architecture ...
Read more >New efficiency record for colour-neutral, transparent solar cells
Researchers at the University of Michigan in the US developed colour-neutral transparent solar cells that set a new efficiency record of 8.1% efficiency with 43.3% transparency. The new solar cells bring us a step closer ...
Read more >Robotic precision in manufacturing parametric design
Designed by researchers of the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart, the BUGA Wood Pavilion celebrates a new approach ...
Read more >A cantilevered wooden roof and glass structure
Designed by the design studio Foster + Partners, the largest Apple store in Thailand features a glass structure and a large, cantilevered wooden roof supported by a central pillar. Called Apple Central World, the store ...
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