Audi Urban Future Award: Building a vision - 2030

 'Cars and architecture are going to have to get to know one another rather better. Truly green mobility will depend on a massive supportive infrastructure in order to realise its full potential; charge points, specialist filling stations, more space efficient parking, intersection with public transport, congestion charging, etc. With all this in mind, Audi has taken the initiative and asked six international architects to conceive a city landscape for 2030 to examine how urban planning and architecture will change to embrace sustainable mobility.' - Wallpaper.com

Beijing architects 'Standardarchitecture' proposal sees the city divided into two, with controlled interior and exterior mobility. Outside electric cars will be the main source of travel, while inside electric cycles and 'Audi Bubbles' (a small personally adapted space that travels on and between the travel belts). 

Balloons Vs. Tunnels

Think of a balloon.  They expand when you put air into them.  Wouldn't it be fantastic to have a space that did the same, depending on the amount of people in them?  Mesmeric Sydney thinks so too.  Here is a little teaser of what you can expect come NYE.

Initial drawings and model

Owl Cave?

This is a design proposal from Choi + Shine for the Icelandic High Voltage Electrical Pylon Design Competition.  What a mouthful.  But don't these figures remind you of the painting in Owl Cave on Twin Peaks!? Yes!!

Skate Park

Bio Bug

Article from The Vine:

It's the car that brings a whole new meaning to the term "dunger" - a Volkswagen Beetle that runs on human excrement.



A British eco company, Geneco, has unveiled a "poo-powered" Beetle Cabriolet dubbed the Bio Bug, claiming the vehicle's bio-gas demonstrated a credible alternative fuel of the future.

The Bio Bug runs on methane gas generated from a UK sewage treatment plant owned by Geneco's parent company, Wessex Water.

Geneco says it uses a special process to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the biogas, claiming it not only reduces exhaust emissions significantly but also maintains vehicle performance and reliability.

"If you were to drive the car you wouldn't know it was powered by biogas as it performs just like any conventional car. It is probably the most sustainable car around," said Geneco's general manager, Mohammed Saddiq.

Wessex Water says waste flushed down the toilets of 70 houses would be enough to power the Bio Bug for about 16,000 kilometres - more than the average annual mileage in Australia.

The company also claims that if all the biogas produced at its sewage treatment plant was converted to run motor vehicles it would save 19,000 tonnes of CO2.

Geneco says it has already been producing biogas to generate electricity for both its plant and the UK's national grid.

By Jez Spinks

Customise Your Life

Everyone's favourite sneakers can now be customised by everyone's favourite crayons in the Vans X Crayola collaboration.  The Mesmeric team are really into creative customisations of existing products so you can certainly expect to see something on New Years Eve in the same vein  as this, although on a much larger scale!