Don’t Sit on the Fence – Reuse Plastic Bottles

As far as the plastic bottle facts go, it’s truly amazing how much plastic we consume every year. In Britain, we use estimated 15 million plastic bottles every day! Worldwide, however, people consume around 9 billion bottles per year. Sadly, only between 2.5 and 5% of the PET bottles are being...

Random Pattern in Parquet Flooring

A California-based architect studio Sutton Suzuki Architects has showcased an amazing villa that they’ve built in Hawaii. It’s a magnificent building but the thing that caught my attention was the lounge/diner area. If you look at the parquet flooring, you’ll see that the elements are in mixed colour...

Wooden Sink for your Eco Bathroom?

This luxury wooden sink is produced by a Swiss company Ammonitum from specially prepared wooden rings that are glued and pressed together. To achieve water resistance, the sink is dunked in mordant solution and then covered with 10 layers of special varnish. The latter conforms to the requirements set out by...

Architecture and Global Population Timeline: Infographic

We’ve come up with this infographic showing the timeline of the global population and architecture. Here you can see how urbanisation, deurbanisation and various architectural styles has gone hand in hand with the population numbers. We start at 10,000 BCE with 1 million people and end in 2020, when...

Green Wall Designs – Inside and Out

What’s the best way of creating a green wall? Painting it green? Sticking a recycled wallpaper on it? Or alternatively you can approach this question like the french green wall designer Patrick Blanc did. He’s one of the most prominent figure when it comes to green wall designs. He’s been at it...

Green Recycled Glass Tiles with a Canadian Touch

I was surfing around and ended up in Canada. Virtually, of course. What attracted me was the semi-precious stone-like material stuck to that green tiled wall. It turned out that they weren’t semi-precious stones at all. In fact it’s humble recycled glass. I bet these high-class tiles has started out as...