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With SMOG FREE TOWER we create clean air parks in public spaces. The SMOG FREE TOWER uses a small amount of green energy to clean 30,000 m3 of air every hour. True beauty is clean air.

Daan Roosegaarde kicks-off the Dutch Innovation Days 2021 on Wednesday 26 May, 19:00 CEST. Join him and learn how you can use your imagination to create a better future.

Daan Roosegaarde will inspire on how to design a better future at AIBC Confab 2021 by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia. Join us in the online lecture and Q&A on 11 May, 12.30 PM GMT-7.

Architecture Award 2020

Our SMOG FREE TOWER wins BUILD Most Innovative Sustainable Design Project 2020 which recognises the world’s most innovative designers and architects.

Winner Successful Design Award China

The SMOG FREE PROJECT wins again in China with the 2019-2020 Successful Design Award which recognises successful design for the future.

At the conference hall of the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Daan Roosegaarde is awarded with theEthics Ethical Award for his SMOG FREE PROJECTagainst the massive air pollution.

Proud of our Mexican students and professor Daan Roosegaarde at UDEM University.

The UN-Habitat interviewed Daan Roosegaarde about our Smog Free Project: how do you Innovate for Change?

Come and visit the world's first Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, and enjoy clean air. Open for all at Vierhavensstraat 52.

Welcome at the keynote lecture by Daan Roosegaarde at Melbourne Design Week which examines how we might build cleaner, healthier, and more resilient cities. March 19, 16.45 in NGV International Great Hall Melbourne.

Our Smog Free Project wins the Design That Educates Award which investigates the educational potential of architecture and design.

On Tuesday 19 February 2019, Delft University of Technology and Stylos organises the symposium 'Future Makers Day'. Daan Roosegaarde will reflect on the theme Future Makers at 19.30, free entrance.

Proud to receive the award in Beijing for Smog Free Project.

These towers can turn China's smog into jewellery. Watch the Smog Free movie with more than 34 million views already at World Economic Forum.

India released its 7 points plan to combat air pollution which includes Smog Free Tower. Read more at India Today.

On the occasion of the Rotterdam International Architecture Biennale, Studio Roosegaarde invites visitors to experience the Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, and learn more about the studio’s ongoing plans for a clean air future. Full interview at Designboom.

Open for public at Vierhavensstraat 52 in Rotterdam at the International Architecture Biennale IABR.

Tuesday 17 April at Milan Design Week architect Kengo Kuma, Superflux and Daan Roosegaarde will take you on a journey through sustainable design. Welcome at the exhibition and lecture Design in the Age of experience.

SCIENTIFIC STUDY VALIDATES SMOG FREE TOWER

Scientific study of Professor Blocken and the Eindhoven University of Technology shows the PM10 reduction by the Smog Free Tower (in percentage and at 1.75 m height). The study undertaken in China confirms the reduction of pollution around the Smog Free Tower. Read press release here.

Key Lecture at Art Basel Hong Kong. Daan spoke at the Swire dialogue series on art and our environment. Read more here.

Daan shares his new smog free dream in this Inhabitat interview: the Smog Free Drones which could create personal pockets of fresh air wherever you go.

Smog Free Project Poland open to all at Krakow’s most popular park: Jordana Park. An adjacent pop up exhibition is staged at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow. Read Press Release.

Get ready Poland, clean air is on its way. Smog Free Project is coming to Krakow in February. Stay tuned for program details and read our press release here.

Smog Free Project receives Grand Award for Sustainability and Gold Award in Design for Asia Awards in Hong Kong.

The annual design conference in Hong Kong has a focus on architecture with speakers including Jacques Herzog, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto and designer Daan Roosegaarde. Welcome on 6 and 7 December, Hong Kong.

Major media in India such as India Today, Daily Pioneer, and The Better India feature Smog Free Project. We look forward to spread the dream of clean air in India.

Smog Free Project was selected as the design that improves a metropolitan city, Beijing, for the future. Read the full article here.

Daan Roosegaarde shares his inspiration and vision for the landscapes of the future at TED 2017, with Al Gore and Richard Branson in the audience. Watch the talk here.

Daan tells Monocle about Smog Free Project's journey, live at the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China. Tune in from 00:20:40 here.

Interview at World Economic Forum China

Lively conversations about the 4th industrial revolution at the World Economic Forum with Feike Sijbesma CEO DSM, Tian Wei of CCTV, Ling Fan of Tezign and Daan Roosegaarde. Read the new interview with Daan Roosegaarde.

Smog Free Project continues its China tour to take centre stage at the Dalian Annual Meetings of the New Champions at the World Economic Forum, showing the dream of clean air to leaders of the world. Read more in the Press Release.

Smog Free Project received a Notable honor in the Design for Social Impact category in the 2017 Core77 Design Awards. The Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners.

Our new Smog Free Tower is open for public in Tianjin China. It gives clean air to the people, with validated results by Eindhoven University of Technology. The locals named it the 'clean air temple'. Press Release.

Inhabitat spoke with Roosegaarde about new projects and how design can help us shape a cleaner, more beautiful urban future: "We have built cities that do us harm, according to groundbreaking Netherlands designer Daan Roosegaarde." Full interview.

Watch the full video story featuring Daan Roosegaarde on Brightvibes with positive official measurements by Eindhoven University of Technology and the smog free ideology.

Smog Free Project is the winner of the Platinum A'Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Category. A'Design Award is the worlds largest design competition awarding best designs and services.