September 8, 2010
- For the exhibition Still Action -- on view at the School of the Art Institute's Sullivan Galleries in Chicago until October 2nd -- Brandon Pass designed, built, and installed (the last two with Nick Bastic) a kinetic wall installation for artists Elissa Papendick and Libby O'Bryan to "challenge and broaden the curatorial process as an...
September 7, 2010
- HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc's internal probe of the deadly April 20 blowout that unleashed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will assign blame to BP as well as other companies involved in the well's operations, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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It's beyond well-known by now that crucial mistakes and shoddy cost-cutting measures were instrumental in bringing about...- On behalf of their client, the Agence du Partenariat pour le Progrès (APP) with its implementing partner, the “L’Agence pour le Developpement et la Réhabilitation de la Ville de Fès” (ADER-Fès), the sponsor would like to invite you to sign up to an open competition for the design of a site in the Medina of Fez, Morocco, known as Place Lalla Yeddouna. Key objective of the “Place Lalla Yeddouna” project competition is to find...
AIANH & the NH Young Architects’ Forum announces a design competition for a new Architecture / Engineering Building on the NHTI campus. The AIANH Intern/Young Architect Design Competition was created to provide an opportunity for interns and young architectural professionals to strengthen their design skills, gain recognition, and assist a community with their design challenges. It is open to all New England architectural interns and architects within five years of registration...
PAVE the Way, a 3D Design Challenge is an exciting opportunity available for students to showcase their work at a major industry event, GlobalShop 2011.
College students who are enrolled in accredited store design, interior design, visual merchandising, and industrial design programs are invited to design a 3D floor fixture for this competition, which is sponsored and presented by B&N Industries. Finalists will then work with B&N Industries to produce a prototype of their...
- Embassy Park is an under-used, small, urban park in the heart of downtown Waltham, Massachusetts. COGdesign invites students and professional landscape architects & designers, artists, architects, engineers, gardeners, builders, and designers of all kinds to take part in the Embassy Park Ideas Competition to redesign this urban park on Moody Street. The goal of this competition is to generate innovative ideas to transform this urban space into a vibrant place that reflects the energy,...
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It's an interesting question for followers of both politics and climate issues: How would things have turned out if Obama had thrown his weight behind clean energy legislation instead of health care reform...- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused on Tuesday to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research despite Obama administration warnings it would set back key research and cost more than a thousand jobs.
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The new Google doodle is a load of balls. Literally. But what’s it all about?Google changing the logo on its homepage is hardly news; it’s not exactly a rare event. But...
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Adding 3MW Turbines
Europe's largest onshore wind farm, which is located in East Renfrewshire in Scotland, is about to get even bigger. ScottishPower Renewables is planning to add 75 turbines...
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The Center for American Progress has ranked the Top 10 states for policies that promote energy efficiency. The report cautions, however, that even those states on the list haven't fully...- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. government team will travel to Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing next week to discuss North Korea but has no plans to visit the poor, isolated state or meet its officials, the State Department said Tuesday.
... White House says oil has gone from Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Dupont has a history of working with artist's and designers to find new ways to extend the materials they produce, like Corian. This time they work with artist-cum-architect...
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not plan to contribute to a NATO request for 2,000 troops for the Afghan war, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, even as the head of the alliance held out the possibility of U.S. participation.
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Might Expand to Other Countries
Speaking of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", IKEA Sweden wants to make...- Read the full story on TreeHugger
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