Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Designs for the environment

Blue Road
from Wooster Collective

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Henk Hofstra's blue road in Drachten (Holland) stretches 1000 meters long.


The Guardian recently introduced us to a series of images, produced by artists Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez, for a new project by Greenpeace.
The images show us what Spain will look like in the future, in a world transformed by climate change.

[Image: By Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez].

But these images, however creative and stunning they are, don't show us identifiable human suffering.

[Image: A full-page ad in The New York Times by Architecture 2030].


[Images: By Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez].


[Images: By Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez].


[Images: By Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez].