Green Architecture Now!

How Green Is Your Blueprint?

Architecture as sustainable technology

The ecological impact of new construction, once a secondary concern, has become a crucial issue. Badly designed buildings guzzle natural resources and pollute their surroundings; in an era of rocketing energy costs and environmental degradation, the need for a sustainable, energy-efficient architecture is paramount. This book features the architects, artists and firms pioneering a new green architecture, and examines the emergent esthetics.

Featured architects/firms/artists include:
Adjaye Associates, Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Barlindhaug Consult AS, Patrick Blanc, Vincent Callebaut Architecte, Cepezed, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Vladimir Djurovic, Ecosistema Urbano, EDAW, Fearon Hay, Foster+Partners, Peter Gluck, Herbst Architects, Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag, David Hertz, Kempe Thill, Morphosis, Alberto Mozó, Manfredi Nicoletti, Office dA, Sergio Palleroni, Philippe Rahm, Rau, Roswag & Jankowski, Rural Studio, SITE, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, Germán del Sol, Werner Sobek, studio tamassociati, TNA, UNStudio, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Weiss/Manfredi, wHY Architecture, Ken Yeang, Zoka Zola, and many more

Le Billionaire Champagne

Leon Verres has launched the most expensive champagne label.

‘Le Billionaire Champagne’ is being billed as the most expensive champagne. Only five of the bottles priced at $2.75 million each will be available. Testers of well-known gourmet-magazines, luminaries of the world of wines, as well as a multitude of famous celebrities confirm the uniqueness of this “handiwork out of master touch“. For them “Le Billionaire Champagne“ represents the coronation of all that what luxury can denote.

Leon Verres Champagne does not tolerate any mainstream but is exclusively served in the most announced bars, clubs and restaurants of our period. All over the place where the exalted luxury-lifestyle is celebrated, also “Le Billionaire Champagne“ of Leon Verres is at home.

Patrick Robinson Close

Close Perfume by Gap introduced as a sexy everyday fragrance for women. A fun and enticing blend of fruit with an exciting base of citrus, with a subtle woody tone. A wonderful fragrance for anytime.

Vivienne Westwood Anglomania for Melissa Shoes collection

nimli.com. Vivienne Westwood designed the Anglomania for Melissa Shoes collection, made from sustainable plastic. $80,

Luxe Links

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Skyline
Prada's Waist Down Exhibit Heads to Seoul, Korea launching at the Prada Transformer at the end of April!
Factio Magazine attends Redmoon's gala Spectacle Lunatique and does a behind-the-scenes video!
Black Halo Mini Dresses

Skyline

Updated version of the classic grandmother cabinet, “Skyline” by Fabio Cocchi & Luigi Rotta /Dovetusai 2009 has an Iroco natural wood structure.It bring backs memories of the past but at the same time its line and top , into three different versions, recall city skyscrapers. The Skyline effect is expressed at its best by putting more cabinets in a row.

Piopio collection

A collection of book shelves and coffee tables/bed tables born thanks to the expert use of the iron by Antonino Sciortino whose ability in molding, since a long time, creates pieces of furniture as beautiful as sculptures and functional as furniture objects. The Piopio collection is based on the idea of the movement, the movement of the shapes of the single object, but also the movement that is born from the possibility to create unsuspected geometries matching many pieces in creative way.

MILLELANCETTE

Time is universal, but each individual has their own interpretation and expression of it. Fabrica has a multi-ethnic and multi-creative perception and through this new clock designed for Diamantini & Domeniconi they speak about the diversity of the communication of time, playing with arrows from different styles with various historic references. From Italian Baroque to Russian modernism, from German Bauhaus to 17è French siècle Elegance... White, black and silver are the plain and pure colors used to highlight the laser cut design allowing a simple trace to speak about a combination of world references.