As usual the standard was impressive. I wasn't a judge this year and so most of the award winners were new to me. In the exhibition I was particularly taken by the steel "Malibu" cabinetry hardware by Furnipart, the brilliant F3 Compact Metal Detector by a team including my judge mate Paul van der Loo of Applidyne, and of course the main winner, Director James Cameron's Deep Sea Challenger which was built in a
The Good Design Awards were handed out last Friday in a new format event held in two locations: prizes at the Angel Place recital hall (with the car design trophies handed out by my rally mate Samantha Stevens - in blue below) and drinks and display across the way at the Ivy.
As usual the standard was impressive. I wasn't a judge this year and so most of the award winners were new to me. In the exhibition I was particularly taken by the steel "Malibu" cabinetry hardware by Furnipart, the brilliant F3 Compact Metal Detector by a team including my judge mate Paul van der Loo of Applidyne, and of course the main winner, Director James Cameron's Deep Sea Challenger which was built in a
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In 2008 I wrote a 22-page lift out called the Blue Pages for Monument magazine containing innovations in water ranging from wave power to greywater processing and floating houses that harness the thermal mass of the water for internal comfort. I was not able to write as much as I would have liked about Charlie Paton's incredible Seawater Greenhouse design built in Abu Dhabi but I have just uncovered some of the additional diagrams and photos so - for the ultimate solution to sustainable agriculture in dry arid (yet seaside) regions of the world - check this out! The process imitates the hydrological cycle where water evaporates from the ocean via the sun's heat, cools to form clouds and then returns to sea and land as rain, fog or dew. Could this also be a solution for the cooling ponds of power stations and other man-made saline water bodies? Link to Charlie's website here
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