by Petz Scholtus, Barcelona – December 27, 2007 via TreeHugger.Com

We covered the brilliant work of Bioregional before, such as the BedZED eco-housing project and the Laundry, a paper recycling system. Bioregional has developed another recycling scheme at a more local scale, specifically for London and has also applied it to Surrey so far. Local Paper for London is based on the simple principle of cycling the paper locally.

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by David Sokol – November 26, 2007 via MetropolisMag.Com

Responsible vehicular design is taken to task at the Art Center College of Design.

In March 2005, Stewart Reed had a homecoming to southern California. The 1969 transportation-design graduate of Art Center College of Design returned to Pasadena to take on the chairmanship of the department. Although Reed had collaborated with his alma mater in the interim—he taught a class while heading Toyota’s advanced design studio in nearby Newport Beach, and served as an advisory board member—Reed’s work as a full-time educator is only just starting.

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by Alysha Brown – September 27, 2007 via MetropolisMag.Com

Alain de Botton has written about everything from Proust (How Proust Can Change Your Life, 1997) to love (Essays in Love,1993) to travel (The Art of Travel, 2002). In his most recent book, The Architecture of Happiness, the writer, who also moonlights as a philosopher, producer, and the Director of the Graduate Philosophy Program at London University, tackles the complex world of architecture. He recently chatted with metropolismag.com about happiness, the perfect city, and what a philosopher has to offer the world of architecture.
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by Jaime – August 22, 2007 via Design-Milk.Com

Cardboard is still hot these days. The Wiggle stool is new at MoMA – reissued by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany.

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by Dianna Dilworth – August 17, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, known for his cardboard houses, has just installed his latest endeavor in the paper-building world—a temporary bridge over the Gardon River, in the south of France. The 7.5-ton structure is made of 281 of Shigeru’s trademark cardboard tubes, each of which measures 4 inches across and 0.47 inches thick. It provides a visual foil to the nearby Pont du Gard: an ancient Roman bridge now listed as a World Heritage site by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization.

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