The latest Renzo Piano project opened this weekend in San Francisco, CA. The California Academy of Sciences “is believed to be the greenest museum in the world, and is on course to earn the highest rating possible for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).” The building features a 2.5 acre ”living roof” of greenery, an array of energy collecting solar voltaic panels and wall cavity insulation made from recylced denim. Built for a reported $500 million, “the new Academy is a single structure but contains multiple venues, including the aquarium, the planetarium, the natural history museum and the 4-story rainforest. In addition, there’s a new 3D theater, a lecture hall, a Naturalist Center, two restaurants, an adjacent garden and aviary, a roof terrace, and an Academy store. The new building also houses the Academy science labs and administrative offices, including an extensive library and scientific archive consisting of more than 20 million specimens.”
source: CAS
Everyone with an old home is subject to a paint project every few years and the likelihood of using an organic paint is seldom considered. Before modern paints containing chemicals were invented, craftsman used organic pigments to add tone to furniture and walls.
As the name implies there is a new phone technology being introduced. Yet, there is no “Android” in the new phone and it supposedly takes the ever evolving technology of communications one step future. The official model name for the device is the “T-Mobile G1 with Google”, the “Android” is the platform developed by HTC (a produce development company), and it’s the first phone by Google (yes the search engine leviathan).
Design is all around us and takes on many shapes and forms. As consumers of product goods we express ourselves by the stuff we use in our daily lives, one such product is the car we drive.
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