This is very Barcelona! (although bicycles are even better than taxis!) cool designs by Barcelonés  

We need more green walls! Nice to see vertical gardens popping up in Barcelona, like the ones at Jean Nouvel’s Fábrica de Moritz, Skunkfunk and Replay’s store!  

Listen to the shampoo and save water in the shower. A nice awareness raising soap, perfect for hotels. Stop the water while using me.  

It just occurred to me that if you could have Tyler Brûlé work with Victor Papanek, you might have gotten the perfect hotel design!

I love this fantastic flow-chart of what people really need by Victor Papenek (one of my gurus!) from his book Design for the Real World  

Here’s Petz’s view on eco-design and its role in Spain at the moment, as told to Monográfica magazine in 2011. Entrevista a Petz Scholtus from Monográfica.org on Vimeo.

Nice pot by Joan Rojeski that grows with your veggies, and it’s locally produced in Spain.  

Visit the Barcelona Open Green Map, or download the guerilla green map here!  

Roca’s w+w sink and toilet in one saves water (but not space and materials!)… has anyone seen a more elegant and economic version of this?! 3000€ is a bit too pricey.  

Washlets… “clean is happy, green is happy”?! More about the japanese toilets on Wikipedia  

Aren’t these the coolest eggs?! Outòcton by LaVinyeta from the Empordà region. La Vinyeta is a wine cellar who care about their land and produce a whole eco-system of organic produce from wines to eggs.  

Co-Hospitality What a great hotel concept by hotel guru Hans Meyer from Hotels Ahead

I couldn’t agree more with Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles of Good Design. Still valid, many years later!

The R3project is Petz’s renovation of her eco-flat in Barcelona in 2006. This project is what inspired and motivated her to create a hotel project a few years later, when she decided she did not want to create more things. As an […]