Posts Tagged ‘bmw’

The Guggenheim BMW carbon fiber lab in New York

-> The Guggenheim BMW carbon fiber lab in New York

When I read that the Guggenheim Foundation was opening a “lab” in collaboration with BMW in the East Village, downtown Manhattan, I just could not believe it. I had lived around the corner and knew that there simply was no space for that. The last time I was in the area there was no sign of construction. Where did they find the money anyway?...

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Sep 30, 2011 | Categories: Place Not Place | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Chris Bangle – Sustainable Design

-> Chris Bangle – Sustainable Design

I have been reflecting all night upon Chris Bangle’s talk last night in front of a standing-room only crowd in the Salone del Cinquecento in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio (which, contrary to popular belief, does not accommodate 500 people). The controversial car-designer’s talk was one of the lectio magistralis offerings of Florens 2010, a succe...

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Nov 18, 2010 | Categories: Techno-Ecology | Tags: | Leave A Comment »

Technology and Ecology: new blog theme

-> Technology and Ecology: new blog theme

If the industrial revolution was grey, the new service-oriented technological revolution has the potential to be green. In 2005 illywords #15 addressed the theme "Techno-Ecology". Five years later, where do we stand? For these two months - November and December 2010 - illywords blog proposes to revisit this theme and bring in the newest examples of...

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Nov 09, 2010 | Categories: Techno-Ecology | Tags: , , , , | Leave A Comment »

BMW: a naturally sustainable leader

Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecology

There are certain criteria involved in buying a car nowadays; some of these we could define as “mathematical”, such as price or performance, easily comparable between makes and models. There are also more subjective factors, that depend on our personal tastes, such as the shape, or the combination of lines and colours that define a car’s styl...

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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

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