The Four Seasons Center For The Performing Arts
The Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts is a 2000-seat Canadian theatre specifically designed by Diamond and Schmidt Architects for opera and ballet. The auditorium is lined with resonant wood and plaster. All the texture and materials have been selected to optimize the sound and the performance of the theatre.
The opera house is located on the southeast corner of one of Toronto’s busiest intersections. This place will be a must-see.
June 26, 2006 - Category: Architecture, Music - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Culito
This original butt-shaped toilet paper holder will remind your children to wipe their arse after the job is done.
Clockwork Ecoflower, The London’s Oasis
Called the London Oasis, this eco-sculpture is a 12-metre interactive structure which will serve Londoners as a getaway from noise and pollution. It is also an eye-catching demonstration of sustainable technologies, with its photovoltaic ‘petals,’ vertical-axis wind turbine and hydrogen fuel cell powering the air-filtering and cooling mechanisms as well as an evening light show.The clockwork flower even collects rainwater, used to irrigate a garden at its base. Transparent casing and information posters provide an insight into the plant’s inner workings.
Basla Hemp Surfboard By Ocean Green
The ultimate goal of Ocean Green is to produce custom surfboards that are entirely made out of natural materials.
The ecofoil blanks are lighter than their polyurethane counterparts and produce a fantastic looking board. Their hollow design overcomes the lack of performance inherent to solid wooden boards. The balsa is sourced in Nicaragua. Wood from sustainable forests is carefully selected and transported to Fair Trade workshops where carpenters transform it into the various ecofoil components. Ocean Green receives the components in Cornwall and then combines the shaped EcoFoil blanks with organically grown hemp cloth to produce a fantastic looking, high performance board.
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The Dancing Chair, Bookcase
This model of chair is called the “Dance” because its movement reminds of a ballet dancer. But this chair is first of all a quite original bookcase.
Audio Stick 70mb By Alice Wang
How will artists release their new albums? Since the arrival of digital music, we found many ways to exchange and stock our music. Alice Wang thought about what the consumers may need, and her audio sticks could be the packing and presentation of what we will buy in a few years. Each stick has the capacity of 70mb, the equivalent of 15 tracks. The audio system’s front panel acts as a stick rack while the top bit is an audio stick plug and play device. The tracks and the volume can be controlled by a slider located on the side.
Dinnerware By Philippe Stark
The new dinnerware designed by Philippe Stark for the Lux collection consists of a complete selection of glassware, cutlery and dinnerware. This dinnerware is perfect to use individually for people who don’t want to stand up every time that they want to eat an appetizer.
The Cloud By Monica Forster
The Cloud is a portable room that you can use as a meeting room or meditation room. It’s ideal to use to escape for creative brainstorming. Easily transported from place to place, the room inflates in three minutes and stays inflated until it’s folded away into its connected carrying bag. The Cloud is entered and exited via a self–closing slit door allowing ample ventilation. What a nice idea to have invented a cloud that you can take wherever you want as a wallet.
Tuba By Mathmos
The Tuba by Mathmos creates the illusion of not really knowing whether the central space has depth or not. What looks like a solid illuminated disc in the center is actually an open space, a void that is brightly illuminated. Mathmos Tuba actually senses your hand entering this void and changes the color or the current function. Alternatively, the Mathmos Tuba can be set to react to music, cycling through a color changing sequence along with the “beat” or your favorite music.
La Force De l’Art, Grand Palais, Paris
Nicknamed the “Exposition Villepin”, La Force De l’Art, which will run until June 25 is the first exhibition in the newly restored Grand Palais, Paris. Intended as a showpiece for contemporary art in France, the exhibition seems to be a mixed bag of highlights from the last 40 or so years. You will find the work of Bertrand Lavier, Raymond Hain and others famous artists.
What’s really interesting in that exhibition is that there’s sometimes more emphasis on the artist than on the art work.
Rift Mobile By Adrift Mobiles
This appears to be something unreal or a 3D image. Brian finds his inspiration in organic shapes and bent plywood furniture. His current designs combine gently curved forms with bamboo veneer or walnut veneer. Read More…
Parkrand by MVRDV
Parkrand building is the new project of MVRDV in Amsterdam. There are 193 apartments built in horizontally or vertically branch. Architects at MVRDV are used to bring the nature close to the living place. As you can see they don’t hesitate to replace flowerpots with tree pots.
June 20, 2006 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Aquarium Toilet Tank By Oliver Beckert
People are decorating their interior in quite interesting ways these days. They’re even putting fishes in the bathroom. Well, that would seem logical considering the fact that the bathroom is the place with the most water in a house. Still, it’s quite inventive to put them in a reservoir for flushing your toilet.
Cool Design In Kiruna By Ala Architects
ALA’s design seems to be the hot favorite to win the international competition to design and develop a building for the Sami Parliament. The firm’s ideology of beauty created in a practical, efficient and analytical design approach is clearly visible in this unique design wich look like a space shuttle. I’m sure ET the extra-terrestrial would come back to Earth if he could in this building.
June 19, 2006 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
Jelly Fish By Janet Echelman
Two days ago, I saw this really lovely sculpture floating and moving with the wind in the city of Porto, Portugal. I never imagined that a representation of a jelly fish manufactured with fishing nets could be so nice. This project was developed by Janet Echelman, an artist who builds sculptural interventions which respond to environmental forces like wind and water. I recommend you to go see it by night, when it’s illuminated.
Sudoku Toilet Roll
That’s great for people who are bored because they are spending to much time in the toilet. You can replace the magazine with a sudoku toilet paper. But guys, don’t play too long because the sudoku toilet paper is quite expensive.
Althea Ceramica Outline Sink
The Althea Ceramica Outline sink is one of the coolest bathroom furniture I’ve seen in a long time. It features amazing looks, sleek lines that go with most bathroom furniture, white ceramics on the outside, and a hollow interior that comes in different colors. I want one!
Vinyl Killer Crystal Record Player
The Swarovski Crystal Limited Bling Bling Edition Vinyl killer is the world’s smallest self running record player. It doesn’t need turntables but churns out music by driving round the record with a needle that is underneath the car. If you have this little toy, you can enjoy music whenever and wherever you are. 33RPM Only. Built in motor, amplifier ad speaker.Requires 9V alkali battery.