Environmental Graffiti

MAD Architects’ City of the Future

What will the city of the future look like? If MAD architects have anything to say about it, urban centres will no longer resemble the concrete jungles of the industrial revolution. MAD and their design friends have come together to create a conceptual model of the Huaxi city centre of Guiyang, China, that brings nature into every consideration when building with the most modern technologies of the 21st century.

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Amsterdam’s Moving Forest

If you’ve ever been hopelessly lost in an unfamiliar place at night you’ll recognize the feelings of frustration and fear. You think that you’re on the right path but a prickling sense of uncertainty washes over you. You question your movements and double back to make sure you’re on the right track… These are just the reactions Dutch architects NL and Droog Design were looking for when they created an installation in Amsterdam.

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The Cardboard Café

Remember when, as a child, you’d get presents on birthdays or at Christmas and often preferred to play with the box they came in more than the toy? Yeah, most people can probably relate to that, but a few interior architects from London’s B3 Designers obviously learnt from their days in cardboard pretend buses and cars more than others.

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