Heliocosm, Cosmetic Shop by FREAKS Freearchitects
FREAKS freearchitects have been commissioned for the interior design of the shop for a new natural comestics brand Heliocosm located in Herold street, Paris 1st ward.Clément Sauvet from Helicosm wanted to create a brand that banishes the chemical ingredients of conventional cosmetics and respects both the consumer and their environment. The architects have inserted a rectangular timber tunnel inside this Paris cosmetics shop. An opening cut away from the wooden box provides the location for a salvaged second-hand table, while integrated shelves display products. Read More…
Breathing Partition Stand by Jinsun Park & Seonkeun Park
The air-conditioned air seems like to be out-of-dated as the green living arise. Duo designers Jinsun Park & Seonkeun Park have designed the Breathing Partition Stand which will be good for offices.
It has an exclusive area to place the plants whilst acting as a divider between work-desks. An automatic watering system takes care of the watering chore, and it would be a good idea to place low-maintenance varieties. Read More…
Magnifying Glass Vase by Cottage Industry
Cottage Industry has created a giant magnifying glass vase that combines a test-tube with a magnifying lens to show off tiny single blooms.
Connect:Homes Launches a New Line of Modular Houses
Jared Levy and Gordon Stott sent a the pictures of thhier latest project announced today; the launch of Connect:Homes. In a first for the prefab industry, the company will manufacture modern, green, and affordable prefab homes from a single California-‐based factory and ship these homes to national and international markets using a patent-‐pending modular system.
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Villa Widlund in Öland, Sweden by Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects
This house built by Claesson Koivisto Rune is like a funnel of light, space and sea views. The location is the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland. The white concrete box is “corsetted” in the middle, creating slightly sheared wall and roof angles. This gives the house both its direction and character, while also marking the difference between the rear private two-storey bedroom part and the communal double ceiling-height front part.
Precast concrete is perhaps not the most common choice for a private house at this scale, but was ideal for achieving the ultimate precision in manufacturing tolerance and colour/finish.
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Flying Hovercraft
This $190,000 flying hovercraft has integrated wings that allow it to fly.The wings are removable in 15 minutes and the Hoverwing™ becomes the UH-18SP hovercraft. It was designed for people who love to play. The hovercraft is safe to operate in both fresh and saltwater, and is also capable of traveling on sand, mud, grass, swamp, ice, and snow terrains with inclines of up to 30 per cent.
The wings roll up and can be stored aboard the craft for easy transportation and rapid deployment. The UH-18SPW Hoverwing™ is the only ground-effect hovercraft to be released as a plan or kit. Click the links below to see the UH-18SPW in action.
Crash Bench by Liliana Ovalle
What happens when a force of nature changes the visual aspect of a design ? Liliana Ovalle illustrates with finesse, that the unrehearsed, and uncontrolled can add impact both visually and emotionally to a design. Crash is just such a piece. The sleek and perfect lines of the bench have been transformed by an unexpected impact which has imposed a new reality, a new way of being and created an outstanding piece of design.
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Church Covered of Grass by Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey
British artists Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey recently transformed a landmark church in South East London by covering the interior in a layer of living grass. Their artwork makes explicit connections with urban political ecologies by highlighting the temporal nature of processes of growth and decay in sites of architectural and ecological interest as well as contemporary art galleries and museums worldwide. The project is organized by the The London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT). You can see it for yourself in Dilston Grove’s Clare College Mission Church, South London.
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More 4′ s New Identity
After winning a competitive pitch,British television Channel 4 commissioned ManvsMachine to create a new brand identity and on-air look for More4. The package aligns with a re-focussed range of content on the channel.
The graphic device is carried across a range of idents featuring installations made up of 400 mechanical ‘flippers’. 15 differently coloured triangular shapes, which also animate, again making up the numeral with the text similarly placed. Each one is made up of hundreds of mechanical ‘flipper’ units that, when set in motion, reveal a range of colours and patterns. These structures are placed within a series of different environments, such as a cafe, a staircase, on a tree, and on an abandoned boat on a beach in Dungeness. Read More…
Starry Night by Lee Eunyeol
Korean photographer Lee Eunyeol creates beautiful nighttime scenes by installing lights in various landscapes that appear as if the night sky was flipped upside down with glowing stars and planets nested inside tall grass or between deep earthen cracks. Eunyeol will be showing this series of photos at the Gana Art Space in Seoul starting this week.
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Cocoon House, Resort in Jeju, Korea by Planning Korea
Seoul-based architectural practice, Planning Korea, completed their design for the Cocoon House, an amazing project of inhabitation for the volcanic island of Jeju. Inspired by the cocoon organisms, the team chose to organize the house around a spheric volume with round windows.
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Graffiti Cafe by Studio MODE
Graffiti Cafe designed by Studio MODE is located in Bulgaria. The main peculiarity is the work done on the ceiling and columns that adorn the restaurant. Columns became over exaggerated as Mode dressed them with and array of thin unfinished wood panels which reach up to the ceiling to create a connecting pattern. Filaments of wood add relief and a great touch at this decor.
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Fobe Residence in Marrakech, Morocco by Guilhem Eustache Studio
Guilhem Eustache – a Belgian studio built the ‘Forbes Residence’in Marrakech, Marocco. The architect aim was to create a dynamic equilibrium despite the difference of scale. Eustache played with light and shadow to enhance and strengthen the volumes and used local materials and techniques like clay for the exterior walls, tadelack for the baths and stones from the Ourika valley for the floors.
The architect has preserved the wildness of the land although they have planted more than 500 trees. The walls have been doubled to help deal with the climate creating high-rise rooms and sun protection. Read More…
Family House in Kraluv Dvur by OV-a
Built by OV-A architects, this great family house is based in Kraluv Dvur. The main distinction of this house are the wooden shutters of the terrace that surrounds the perimeter of the house. The Wooden shutters let in light but at the same time provides intimacy and can be open to enjoy a full view of nature and let the daylight penetrate the house. Read More…
‘Wood-Cast’ Furniture by Hilla Shamia
Israel product designer Hilla Shamia has has created this fantastic series of furniture blending aluminum and wood.
The rough, intentionally rugged concrete skins of Brutalist buildings were meant to record the process by which they were made. The wood plank formwork used to mold the walls imprinted on their surfaces a textured, abrasive quality in a manner that re-infused contemporary architecture with the type of craftsmanship that had been banned at the commencement of the Modernist project. This ‘honest’ expression of building coveted fidelity to the inherent ‘character’ of the material at hand–an aesthetic imperative that could only be upheld through the thoughtful act of physical making. This same pathos is evident in the work of designer Hilla Shamia, whose “wood casting” furniture hybridizes organic material with abstract forms using industrial techniques.
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Insano, the Highest Water Slide, Bazil
Highest Water Slide in the World is in Brazil found in the beach park of Brazil. Its name is Insano. It has set a Guinness record with 41 meters height which are equal to a height of 14 storeyed building. It is a very thrilling experience to slide from that height in the water track at 105 Kilometers/ hour speed. Read More…
Floating Table Tennis
This wonderful recreational gadget can be very useful when cooling off into your own pool, or others’, for that matter. With it, you can cool yourself during hot summer days, relax and have some fun along with your buddies.
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Cornelia Konrads’ Installations
Artist Cornelia Konrads creates sculptures that blend with nature and defies gravity. She works with natural materials in a natural environment. Her work is frequently punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness, where stacked objects like logs, fences, and doorways appear to be suspended in mid-air, reinforcing their temporary nature as if the installation is beginning to dissolve before your very eyes.
