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LAVA wins first prize for masdar – world’s first sustainable city in UAE

August 28th, 2009 link to (permalink)

‘sunflower umbrellas,' madsar, UAE by LAVA image courtesy LAVA giant umbrellas, with a design based on the principles of sunflowers, will provide moveable shade in the day, store heat, then close and release the heat at night in the plaza of a new eco-city in the united arab emirates.
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