Gardening connects us with nature and brings us joy & peace which many people would vouch for. Taking you a step further in your eco concerns & gardening skills, comes this simple yet beautiful eco-designer Torre plant pot from Zurich-based Postfossil Design Collective. Designed especially for indoor gardening, this lovely pot grows with your potted plants thereby giving them full freedom to evolve their roots below soil and flourish lavishly above earth.

This becomes possible as a result of a flexible design comprising individual ceramic rings. As the user attaches these new elements (filled with fresh earth), it effectively cuts back the user’s painful task to re-pot their actively developing seedlings and saplings!

Torre is the brainchild of designer Annina Gaehwiler and is available through her website. It comes in 3 varieties: Terracotta, White and Black; each in a choice of finishing: Smooth, Lined or Raw. She designed Torre in a manner that each ring element comes in two different radii for bigger and smaller plants. Besides, there’s no limitation to the kind of plants you want to pot in case you thought Torre is fit for only straight shooting stems! Go ahead and experiment with sprawling and hanging plants. Torre is equivalent to Flexibility + Sustainability!

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A whole eco- development plan is being put forward by Fosters+ Partners for the Italian coastal town of Rimini. In this age of emerging mega cities with their jaw-dropping architectural planning and futuristic buildings worldover, Rimini might just be the next addition. The renowned architectural firm has plans to renovate the waterfront of this town putting it on the map of eco-tourism.

The proposal bears the nouveau development plan comprising of a brand new seafront promenade that links to Rimini’s existing green boulevards. Fosters+ Partners have envisioned a hotel tower located 300 meters into the ocean. Not only this, there will be a long pear that will extend from the hotel to the pedestrian link. The whole concept involves developing and planning the new waterfront by making use of latest technologies like rainwater collection and solar photovoltaics.

The plan sounds wonderful and the designs prepared by the firm look great, the long-term eco-sustainability and other environmental strategies for a better tomorrow are still under consideration. A lot of rigorous testing will be done before the plan actually starts transforming Rimini’s beachfront. Till this happens you may wonder at the designs.

Via Inhabitat

Here is an immediately a last taste of what Freedom of formation has in store for 100% Design London this September.

And MoCo Submissions is used in comfort while making utilize of foam cuts of different shapes and sizes.

MoCo Submissions is a Multi-layered Bowl is stylish porcelain bowl, as strong as it is thin. Follow process on website, right down to edging of the label.

MoCo Submissions have just been launched and combine tiny beads of used glass and sporadic shots of sharp leaf for a curious and really tactile effect. MoCo Submissions is leather chair and that envelopes user in an elegant fashion, based of course on Calla lily.

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Those who can afford a rooftop garden or a plush green lawn do that. What about those of us who put up in flats and only dream about having a mini garden for ourselves within our houses? For such folks, Dutch designer Daniel Schipper has created an affordable, foldable greenhouse to plants your own mini-greens in form of tiny flower varieties or may be even grass sprouts!

The mini-garden delight is lightweight, portable, eco-friendly (made out of recycled plastic) and has a foldable roof for easy storage. Its base is also recycled out of plastic composite. The no-fuss and minimalist appliance requires just 3 little steps: unfold, snap, and water. The greenhouse is carved for small spaces like balconies, roof terraces, town gardens or city houses.

A passout of The Design Academy Eidhoven, Schipper loves to churn out simple, easy-to-use and sustainable designs for products like shelters, chairs etc. A look at his portfolio will tell you how ’simplicity’ as a principle is at the core of the designer’s varied products. All his projects accentuate upon three aspects viz. functionality, fold-ability and like I mentioned earlier aswell, sustainability.

His latest greenhouse project has been well appreciated in Netherlands and he is now on the lookout for some like-minded fellow to help him put this nouveau creation of his in production.

Via DanielSchipper

With the shrinking of arable land in every country on our planet, the possibility of vertical farming is taking shape in the minds of futuristic-planners, scientists and agriculturists. The horizons are being stretched by modern designers to bring out concepts that involve growing your veggies, fruits & flowers on skyscrapers! One such being Dr. Dickson Despommier’s vertical farm concept which he fondly calls his zucchini-in-the-sky vision. He created the model of this vertical farm back in 1990’s with his batch of medical ecology students.

The design displays tall sky-kissing green buildings- where people grow edible plants, fruits vegetables even legumes as per their requirements. Dr. Despommier, whose name in French means “of the apple trees,” is a professor of public health at Columbia University. Since 1999, has been spreading the seeds of his radical idea in lectures and through his Web site. Unachievable as his sky-high dreams seems to be, Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president and another big city dreamer has laid his eyes upon radical farming concepts and have quite liked Despommier’s model.

Stringer’s office is now actively busy in “sketching out what it would take to pilot a vertical farm,” and he plans to undertake a feasibility study within next few months, according to the man himself. Well, the future does seem to be bright enough for all such daring designers and ‘green’ achievers for careful planning and lot of hardwork is what it takes to achieve the impossible looking feats!

Via NYT