Europe buildings have being using green rooves for over a decade. New Tokyo construction regulations require that at least 20% of medium and large building´s roof has to be green.

In the States the leader is Chicago, on most of the new buildings the rooves are green!

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June 15-17 2009

Is the greatest Interior Design Fair and it takes place at Chicago Merchandise Mart. Don´t miss it!!!

You can find new designs, new trends in the commercial, health, hospital, and home fields.

You will see new materials, products, accesories, fabrics, pavements, stones, exterior design furniture, kitchen and bath cabinetry, lighting and technology news.

More than 130 seminars will update arquitects, interior designers and Entrepreneurs from all over the world.

Intersolar is the world´s largest solar technology trade fair and the annual meeting place for everyone in the international solar Industry. Intersolar focuses on the Photovoltaic, Solar Thermal and Solar Architecture branches. In June 2008, at its new location in Munich, more than 1,050 exhibitors presented their products and services across 76,000 m² of exhibitor floor space – an increase of more than 120% from 2007. Intersolar 2008 featured just under 52,000 visitors from 140 countries, making it the most international Intersolar yet.

Intersolar North America 2008 will be the continent’s premier international exhibition for photovoltaics, solar thermal technology and solar architecture. Coupled with SEMICON West, Intersolar North America 2008 will also attract a broad base of attendees in the complimentary markets of semiconductor and nano-electronics manufacturing and development. The event will utilize 350,000 square feet of combined exhibition space.

The Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo, now in its 21^st year, is the original event that brings together the entire team who designs, plans, constructs and manages healthcare facilities. HFSE focuses on how the physical space directly impacts the staff, patients and their families and the delivery of healthcare. Ideas, practices, products and solutions will be exchanged, explored and discovered at HFSE that improve current healthcare facilities and plan the facilities of tomorrow.

Might be useful for the streets.

A proactive way of seating. They are fun, and if you try to cross your leg, use your tummy muscles to avoid tipping over

The main idea of the beam rocker is that seating is a collaboration between chair and human, seating on these rockers is an activity requiring alertness, not just a matter of plopping down.

These Inflatable seating, gives you a back rest when open, better than a beambag.

A new design, this corian tete a tete rocker, works like a seesaw, seating on it becomes a partnership between you and the other.

May 16th-19th, 2009.  Will take place in New York City, at the Javits Convention Center .
Opening night Party on May 17th at 21h00

The ICFF annually invites the world’s leading academies of design to a competition juried by industry luminaries. Invitees present student-designed products and prototypes developed as solutions to a problem formulated in the studio.
More info can be found at ICFF.COM