Dallas-based artist Gabriel Dawe creates colorful site-specific installations using bright gradients of suspended thread. Below is a small selection of his work over the past year as part of his Plexus series. Despite the geometric precision in each installation, it’s fascinating to see how some works become sort of amorphous clouds of floating color. 

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Stunning #recycle window facade in Potato Head Beach Club - 

Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia

Oslo (Norway)...

According to ehcitychallenge.org the main aim is to become the leading city in sustainability across the world by 2020. The concept is to have a city that runs on 100% renewable energy by having only environmentally friendly buildings and public spaces as well as to be operating high quality mass transportation and recycling systems.

 They’ve also installed a system where each car on the road will have to pay toll to use the freeways. This is similar to the new “e-toll” system that will be used in Gauteng and Cape Town. The city of Oslo had a trial run in 2006 where it indicated that traffic had reduced by 20-25%, and this rate has been maintained even with the population drastically increasing. The system is only working between 06:30-18:00 every weekday. If the e-toll system in south-Africa can be initiated correctly, drastic changes in traffic will be seen and this will also result 

in lower usages off fossil fuels.

 The oslo climate and energy fund was created to help aid the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. By doing so, the government has started awarding any climate and energy efficiency projects. And in 2011, 9Billion US Dollars was awarded for these projects.

 The latest strategy was to create shore based electric power for cruise ships. This is done to reduce the pollution created by all the cruise ships entering its harbor every day. Results shows a reduction of 3000 tons of emissions per year.

 Solar Farms are seen all over the World and is soon to be a part of South Africa's Mass Renewable System.

Curitiba -Brazil 

Also referred to as the “smart city” as well as the Ecological capitol of Brazil. They are currently rated as the 3rd best green city in the world. With the highest recycling rate of waste and energy. 

The car traffic has decreased by 20% over the last 5 years alone. This is because of the new bus systems and other mass transportation systems. Their main idea is to “work with nature and not against”. 

Everything in the city is being recycled. There are different marked bins all over the city as well as in each household. By doing this, at least 1270 trees are saved each day. 

The City also employs the homeless as well as drug addicts in its recycling plan.  The way they encourage people to recycle is to award them with food or bus cards.

 The city buys this food from local farmers with the money they generate from recycling. People can also exchange their fresh food that they have grown.

Advantages:

Economical:

•  More jobs created by these systems, meaning the poor can now provide for themselves. Poor people can buy traveling tickets by selling their own produce. 

•     Busses are used to transport workers to factories etc. allowing for an additional saving of fuel and reducingtraffic congestion on the roads. Less diseases and an increase on public health by turning         landfill sites into recycling centers.  Builders get tax reduction if their projects include green spaces as well as any renewable energy sources. 

Environmental:

Less fresh produce and materials is imported from other countries, saving the country money. Less rubbish on the streets as people will get paid to recycle instead. And also less landfill sites are required. 75% of all people use the bus systems. Each bus can carry about 270 people and makes use of environmentally friendly fuels such as LPG(Liquid Petroleum Gas) and Hydrogen, producing hardly any CO2       

        Solar water Heating:

Households in South Africa use 45% of all their energy by heating geysers for hot water. The south African Government has initiated a project where each new RDP house will receive a solar water heater.

This system does not generate electricity but simply heats up the water by making use of the suns energy. It is a popular way of saving energy as Eskom now also pays back a rebate if any household installs one of these systems.

Mark Wright - Sustainability in south Africa

He created a way to use landfill waste and turn it into energy. His big project is active at the Bisasar Road Landfill in Durban. This is one of the largest landfills in Southern Africa, taking in more or less 7000 tons of waste every day.

By coming up with this solution, the Landfill-Gas-To-Electricity system was initiated and today the city with 3.5million people can now draw its power from this new source.

An electrical Energy can be harvested from the Methane gas created by these landfill areas. This is done by having perforated pipes in trenches which will then siphon the methane gas from decomposing garbage. The gas then travels through the pipes to the power generation compound where it is turned into electricity and distributed to the city. These create green landfill sites that improve the quality of life for the people within the city.

Recyclable art-Jane Perkins

 What we see as rubbish in our dayly lives, British artist Jane Perkins merely sees as colour to her pallet. It all started when she made broaches from recyclable materials found in dumpsters etc. This was too small to make an impact on the viewers life so she decided to go bigger. 

So with the major trend of environmentalism and climate change in mind she set of and began looking into eco-friendly philosophies to design  portraits made entirely of unwanted objects. Since 2008, she's expanded her recycling technique to make portraits using buttons, toys, plastic forks or anything else she found in other peoples trash.

She was inspired by the Ecuadorian hairstylists, who are known to use broken jewelry and other shiny objects in their designs. 

AFGRI Head Office - Centurion 

Situated on the side of the free way, between Pretoria and Johannesburg, the two pavilions are the new offices for Afgri South Africa. Paragon Architects had created a defining statement in the landscape of Centurion by creating a sculpture within the city. 

The buildings are joint to each other as continuous concrete curves places at distinct angles. the shaded glass facades allows for natural light, but also protects from the noise and pollution from the freeway. The Aluminium Louvres covers the Northern facades to create shading from the harsh sun in the Highveld. 

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Installation Art by Daniel Buren

Mural‬ tribute to oscar niemeyer by eduardo kobra.

Sand Sculpture by Carl Jara

Sand Sculpture by Carl Jara

Came across these amazing sand sculptures in a article sone by Design-Dautore...

 

"Cleveland-based sand sculptor and woodworker Carl Jara  just won fist-place at the Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Competition with this fun sculpture titled Infinity. The piece, which also won the People’s Choice award, depicts a series of five consecutive human figures in the palm of another, each one smaller than the last. As an added bonus, he shot a time-lapse video of the entire piece coming together over a period of three days. In the various sand sculpture competitions around the U.S. Jara frequently comes in near or at first place with a imaginative range of figurative works."

Riverside Theater 

Site :       Old Tramways building- Port Elizabeth

Description:  Proposed new 600 theater, located at the foot of                            South End, on the south bank of the Baakens Valley. 

Starlite Bowling & Gaming

On the 24th of April 2013, I received the brief to design a new building housing a Tenpin Bowling Alley and Gaming Center for our Btech Design Portfolio.

       The client/ Developer is Red Bull, who are investing in such centers around the country.

   Also the nature of the building and the placement of entrances on a public as well as private level.

The site is in the center of Korsten, Port Elizabeth, which had a few of its own challenges. How to deal with the context around the site, as well as pedestrian movement was played a big role in the design process.

  After Finalizing the design, I decided to do a 3D model on Google Sketchup, and then imported it into Lumion a program distributed by Micro Graphics.