Interior Design Sense

While overlooking the potential location of the Nunnmps office in the outskirts of Chicago, architects from Cheungvogl wanted to minimize the project’s footprint as much as possible and preserve the site’s natural state. Their solution was to take two thirds of the building and put it underground. As for the rest? Well, they decided to put it on stilts.

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Pig manure: it’s good for more than just smelling up pig pens. Researchers from the University of Illinois and Innoventor have figured out a way to make crude oil out of the pungent stuff — and one day, the process could even yield pig manure-derived biodiesel. Instead of taking 10,000 years to produce oil the old-fashioned way, the researchers have managed to produce their bio-oil in just one hour. We’re not the biggest fans of light, sweet crude in general, but it’s better than taking oil out of the ground, right?

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German-born lighting designer Ingo Maurer recently revealed a stunning new energy efficient chandelier at Milan Design Week. Dubbed Double C-Future, the super tech-style pendent lamp features nine suspended OLED panels and was realized with help from lighting manufacturers Osram and Novaled. Maurer isn’t hiding anything with these fixtures – the design celebrates OLED technologies by showcasing the technical components and dispensing with any casings or coverings.

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