{"id":2050,"date":"2019-09-15T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2019-09-15T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:59:28","slug":"smithsonian-com-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=2050","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SMITHSONIAN.COM<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/these-wild-sculptures-could-bring-sustainable-energy-desert-180973030\/\" target=\"_blank\">These Wild Sculptures Could Bring Sustainable Energy to the Desert<\/a><br \/>\nBy Emily Matchar<br \/>\nSeptember 10, 2019<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The average high in Abu Dhabi this time of year is nearly 105 degrees. That\u2019s why much of life in the capital of the United Arab Emirates revolves around indoor shopping malls, with their cocoons of artificially chilled air. But imagine walking through an outdoor park beneath a shaded canopy, a light mist cooling your skin. As day turns to night, the light passing through the canopy\u2019s geometric opening makes you feel like you\u2019re strolling beneath the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>This canopy concept, designed by New York architect Sunggi Park, is called Starlit Stratus. It\u2019s the winner of a contest sponsored by the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), an organization looking to show that \u201crenewable energy can be beautiful.\u201d Since 2010, LAGI has been hosting a biannual contest for energy-generating public art. Previous contests have been held in places as far afield as Copenhagen, Santa Monica and Melbourne.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/these-wild-sculptures-could-bring-sustainable-energy-desert-180973030\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More ><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITHSONIAN.COM These Wild Sculptures Could Bring Sustainable Energy to the Desert By Emily Matchar September 10, 2019 The average high in Abu Dhabi this time of year is nearly 105 degrees. That\u2019s why much of life in the capital of the United Arab Emirates revolves around indoor shopping malls, with their cocoons of artificially chilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-98","category-press-and-articles-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}