Cool Motorcycle Helmets by Good Studio
These creative helmets are conceived by the creative Kazakh studio Good. Unfortunately, it's just a project for the moment. Too bad. I think it would be great to drive down ...
Infinity Pool 55 STOREYS Above Ground Opens in Singapore in Dazzling New £4bn Resort
At three times the length of an Olympic pool and 650ft up, it is the largest outdoor pool in the world at that height. The Sands SkyPark is an awe-inspiring ...
Supertramp Caravan by Lehman B
How to live in microsized quarters? This question is at the heart of Lehman B's performance art Supertramp he showcased at the Rough Luxe Hotel in London. The project attempts ...
Vitrahaus, by Herzog and de Meuron
The newly completed Vitrahaus by Herzog & de Meuron on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany – just outside of Basel, Switzerland.The concept of the VitraHaus connects two ...
LoftFloat Houseboats on Barcelona’s River by Toni Clariana, Magma Design & Enoc Armengol
Toni Clariana, Magma Design & Enoc Armengol have unveiled LoftFloat houseboats for the fluvial surroundings of Barcelona.The focus of this project is to have happy homes across the fluvial surroundings ...
“The Wool Butchery” by Clemence Joly
Clemence Joly focused her final degree project on the study of French meat, crocheting wool selected pieces of meat and sausages the most iconic, such as pig’s head, steak, roasts, sausage. Her project is called “The Wool Butchery” and you can view a gallery of eighteen images at the link.
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Maximum Garden House by Formwerkz Architects
Maximum Garden House was made by Formwerkz. The design maximizes the area for garden, that usually doesn’t have enough area to be built.
From the architects:
One questions the sense of “landed-ness” in a typically maxed-out envelope of a semi-detached typology. What is usually left over after the building footprint is no more than a slender planting strip on the ground. Hence, one prime motivation of this house was to seek out more garden spaces/surfaces in an attempt to redress this imbalance while we fulfill the client’s brief.
The Picturesque Landscape
The vertical wall planting set within a niche along the front boundary wall and the Burle Marx inspired shrubbery on the car-porch roof, reclaim surfaces otherwise normally neglected as canvasses for beautification.
“Auto Residence” by Markus Voglreiter
Auto Residence has been designed by the architect Markus Voglreiter. This auto residence is located in Gnigl near Salzburg, Austria and the surrounding areas make it look even more beautiful. Transforming the structure of the house into a car was a big challenge as it was originally a 70’s style house and then the architect also had to come up with two separate dwellings to incorporate two generations of a family. Add to this the fact, that the auto residence was laden with eco-lighting solutions as well.
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Furniture by Marcello Ziliani for Casprini
With an elegant shape and a classy black and white color palette, the set can be easily integrated in various arrangements. The chairs named “Azhar” have a flashy, but tasteful lacquer finish. The Atatlas table has a base similar to that of the chairs and it features a beautiful oval top in natural crystal. Even though the products are very alike, the materials used to produce them were different.
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Moshi Concept for Electrolux by Rolando Hernandez Garcilazo
Moshi is a multipurpose kitchenette that includes the induction cooking hub, dish washer, sink, fridge and washing machine in one structure. The entire gamut of appliances is controlled via an interactive touchscreen pad. Designed for apartments that lack space and yet want to host all the comforts of a luxury home, the Moshi targets the young and the restless! From time-marking groceries to recipe cards, and ingredient status of the fridge-contents, all can be controlled and accessed via the pad. So typically for the gadget-savvy.
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Carine Gilson Boutique in Brussels, Belgium by Gilson
The couture lingerie designer has just opened her new boutique, Lingerie Couture in Brussels. The design for the boutique harks back to the glamorous Art Deco era and was conceived by Gilson in an effort to mimic the luxury of the designer’s elegant collections.
A golden light fixture by artist Jan Pauwels dominates the décor, a delicate lace-inspired series of intertwined metal filaires with tiny lamps that illuminate the designs (and the figure) in the most flattering light.
A further contemporary palette of black flooring with mirrored walls and reflective skated bronze detailing make one feel as if in a jewellery box.
Carine Gilson
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July 28, 2010 - Architecture, Interior, Latest - Author: Chantal - Comments: 0
Speaker Module, Concept by Chi Tat Chiu and Sungchul Yang
Chinese designers, Chi Tat Chiu and Sungchul Yang have designed the Speaker Module to make the user feel like it’s a salt and pepper container. The unit comprises five speakers, and a base which works as a woofer and controller. Depending on your choice you can stack them together to look like one speaker or place each one individually. You can also rotate each part to let the sound spread all over.
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July 28, 2010 - Latest, Music, Sound System - Author: Chantal - Comments: 0
“George Houses” in Albert Park, Australia by Matt Gibson Architect
This contemporary house in Albert Park, Australia resembles like a traditional Victorian cottage from the outside and invites guests into its cool and clean minimalist interiors, and an ultra-modern addition at the rear. George Residence, designed by architect Matt Gibson, sits on a narrow plot. This is what gives the house its unique character. The home is built surrounding two central courtyards with three building components. A wooden deck offers an uninterrupted runway leading through the home’s elongated layout, creating continuity between the indoor and outdoor living spaces.
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Flowlab Skateboard by Mike Simonian & Pieter Schouten
Mike Simonian in collaboration with Pieter Schouten have made this skateboard in order to add the flexibility of snowboarding movements to skateboarding. Rather than having four wheels, the Flowlab sports 14 arranged in a set of curved parallel lines. They allow you to lean far into each turn, treating the skateboard almost like a snowboard. A traditional skateboard can lean up to 25 degrees, while a Flowlab ups that to 45 degrees.
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Palmyra House by Studio Mumbai Architects
Studio Mumbai Architects have designed the Palmyra house in Nandgaon, Maharashtra, India.Constructed entirely from locally sourced and sustainably harvested palmyra, the home is sited on a working coconut plantation in the West Indian coastal town of Alibaug.
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July 26, 2010 - Architecture, Latest, Pavillion - Author: Chantal - Comments: 0
Favorite Things Pendant Light by Chen Karlsson
Favorite Things pendant light from Chen Karlsson let your treasured objects be exhibited and highlighted beneath a light source. Spread the light and tales of your favourite things.
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Cool Motorcycle Helmets by Good Studio
These creative helmets are conceived by the creative Kazakh studio Good. Unfortunately, it’s just a project for the moment. Too bad. I think it would be great to drive down the highway and see someone wearing a watermelon or a brain helmet.
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Personal Submarine by Hammacher Schlemmer
This Personal Submarine by Hammacher Schlemmer uses two 3-horsepower vertical/translational thruster powered by electric batteries and controlled by a central joystick that, according to the manufacturer, allows “precise positioning underwater”. The transparent sphere is made of 3 1/4-inch (8.25 centimeters) thick acrylic and has a diameter of 56 3/4 inches (1.44 meters), enough for two people.
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Passive House in Bessancourt, France by Karawitz Architecture
The French firm Karawitz Architecture have developed a passive house in Bessancourt, France.
The house is closed to the north to limit heat loss and opened to the south benefiting from free solar energy. aesthetically, it is an abstract replica of a traditional house.The second skin of the houses design is untreated bamboo which envelopes the frame in solid wood panels.
The cladding, which becomes grey over time, drew inspiration from traditional barns in the part of the Ile-de-France region where the house is situated. It passes in front of the windows to the north and finishes by unfolding on to the roof. Identical shutters are fitted on large bay windows to the south to provide shade and light in the house, during the day or at night.
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July 22, 2010 - Architecture, Green, Latest - Author: Chantal - Comments: 1
Suitcase Stickers by the Cheeky.com
Those stickers make your suitcase look more original. Just take a stand against monotonous travel with Suitcase Stickers. Designed to stick to anything, they will draw attention to your bag making it easily identifiable and sure to make you some new friends.
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“Inziair,” Lighting Concept by Hippolyte Bachelet
“Inziair” created by the young designer Hippolyte Bachelet, is a living light, flexible and versatile. The lamp lights up, inflates and deflates in contact with the user, thereby varying its form and areas of illumination.
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Diplôme Hippolyte Bachelet : INZIAIR, un luminaire vivant !
envoyé par hipbac. – Regardez plus de courts métrages.
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evansHOUSE by bittonidesignstudio
bittonidesignstudio have completed the evansHOUSE, located in the Crestwood Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.
This small modernist community, which is part of greater Los Angeles has now become an architecturally controlled neighbourhood that was originally planned by architects A. Quincy Jones and Whitney R. Smith. This particular project is a remodel and addition to an existing 1957 Benton + Park home which is situated high above the city with views of the entire LA basin. The project was framed around taking something ‘modern’ and making it more contemporary.
The existing spatial condition of the house was clearly divided between public(lower level) and private(upper level) as well as fixed within a completely horizontal orientation. The major move was to carve out a double high space above the kitchen in order to animate the section vertically and allow for more social interaction. While the idea of indoor/outdoor living is typically taken for granted in Southern California, the altitude of the site allowed for an atmospheric connection rather than a connection to the landscape. As the clouds change color and are in constant motion along the coastline, the house and its materials were thought of as a canvas to be manipulated by the sky.
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July 21, 2010 - Architecture, Facade, Latest - Author: Chantal - Comments: 1
Geeky Coffee Table Tade from Old Computer Parts
This Coffee Table is made of two tables, one on the inside to hold the computer boards, and one on the outside, that acts as the surface of the piece.
It’s mainly made up of boards/drives from old Intergraph 6000 series machines built in the late 80s early 90s. They had nice big boards. It was a good way to keep around my first real computer after I could no longer find parts to keep it working, an Intergraph 6880 with Edge II graphics. I learned computer modelling, rendering and animation on it and think of it as a mentor. There are also old 2800 baud modem parts and other random parts collected over the years.
