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The Brit Insurance Design Awards are also know as the Oscars of the Design World. Brit Insurance Designs opened up today and judge Will Self and curator Alex Newson were present there as BBC news and ITV news covered the exhibition and conducted a few interviews. Brit Insurance Designs showcase the best of the best in terms of architecture, fashion, [...]

Nature has always provided us with solutions, but we never took the pains of realizing them. A group of insightful students at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG) in Madrid have drawn inspiration from nature and have constructed a house which can beat the scorching heat of the summers. As we step into the future we [...]

If one sets one’s mind to it, then anything can be achieved. Now that sounds a bit too philosophical, but this kind of focus is required in finding some space for a garden in our house, when finding space to even live has become scarce and not to forget, exorbitantly expensive. But the Maximum Garden House designed by Fromwerkz architects has managed [...]

A British computer engineer connected throughout your house to Twitter. Andy Stanford-Clark gets in your profile in Twitter – which he accesses from the phone – posts saying “the heater is working on the toilet” or “the temperature of the fitness center is cool.” Ultimately, he aims to reduce the cost of electricity [...]

The Californian law for reflective roof going into effect next month is there for a reason. Environmentalists believe that if every building had a white roof, the surroundings will be a lot more cooler. The same eco-friendly vein has got on to architect Richard Meier who along with his partner Michael Palladino have created a house entirely in white [...]

Planning to build a house that’s stunning, eco-friendly and totally off-grid? Try this one, its just great. Taalman Koch created the itHouse in such a way that it saves on every thing- the waste, manual labor, power etc., but at the same time is elegant and takes you closer to nature. The house is mostly built of prefabricated fragments that were [...]