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Whale-Shaped Mobile Garden Cleans Europe’s Rivers

Jan 14, 2010 // Published in Architecture, Ecological, Environmental art, design, and products
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Vincent Callebaut has created a whale-shaped mobile garden designed to drift through Europe’s rivers while purifying their waters. "The Physalia is a self-sufficient ecosystem that generates all the power it needs from the sun and works to reduce water pollution through bio-filtration," notes from Inhabitat. This project sounds like a good idea! Technical details about The ...

Green Urban Art

Jan 02, 2010 // Published in Environmental art, design, and products, Flowers and Plants, Graffiti, Using Daily Objects to Create Art

Edina Tokodi's urban art consists of the use of moss stencils and live plants on walls. Link via ///

The Underground House

Dec 23, 2009 // Published in Architecture, Ecological, Environmental art, design, and products
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A unique house buried under the earth in Vals, Switzerland. Designed by the architects of SeArch and Christian Müller. Notes about the project (by Inhabitat): (...) It’s difficult to imagine any new construction that wouldn’t impose on the beautiful landscape. So when the rare opportunity was granted to construct a new dwelling just a stone’s throw away ...

Funky Street Signs

Nov 23, 2009 // Published in Environmental art, design, and products, Illustration, street art
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Artistic street signs displayed in Lyon, France. I think the illustrations were done by Super Deux. If anyone can confirm the credits for this, it would be much appreciated. Thanks! Thanks to lau for the update. The street sign project was originally created by Karnado.  View more here. Link via This Blog Rules

Optical Illusion in Backyard

Nov 19, 2009 // Published in 3D, Architecture, Ecological, Environmental art, design, and products, Flowers and Plants
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"Deformscape" is an outdoor architectual project by  Thom Faulders (founder of Faulders Studio). Notes about project by Faulders: Deformscape is an outdoor extension to a private dwelling in San Francisco. Situated in a tightly packed urban neighborhood, this limited space outdoor sculpture garden inherits a large tree, and uses this sole arboreal presence to establish a gravitational ...

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