“kruikantoor,” Portable Office by Tim Vinke
‘kruikantoor’ is a portable office made of lightweight material that’s sturdy enough to sit on. When unpacked it comes complete with a desk, two chairs, some file organizers, a coffee maker, a light and a printer.
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Terrafugia Transition “Flying Car” Gets Go-Ahead from US Air Authorities
The Terrafugia Transition, a light aircraft that can convert into a road-legal automobile, is to go into production after being given a special weight exemption by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The Transition was designed as a ‘light sport’ aircraft, the smallest kind of private aeroplane under FAA classification.
But the manufacturers found it impossible to fit the safety features that are required for road vehicles into that weight. Uniquely, however, the FAA has granted the Terrafugia Transition an exemption – allowing it to be classified as a light sport aircraft despite being 120lb over the limit.
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Flatpack Shelters by Adrian Lippman
German designer Adrian Lippmann has created this Fold Flat Shelter. These tent like structures are unsupported mini-houses made of light composite panels to be used as disaster relief shelters. Developed with only a few elements, each panel comes in relatively small dimensions resulting in a compact building design.
Adrian Lippmann
Via [Designboom]
Bathrooms, spa and air-conditioning by Duravit AG, Hornberg
This bathrooms, spa and air-conditioning created by Duravit AG won the red dot design award. Following a purist form language and designed to impart a strong sense of “warmth”, this sauna turns into an inviting space within a space, and thus clearly follows the demands of clarity, harmony and structure. Similar to the Indian tradition, this sauna too becomes an integrative part of everyday life.
The design concept is sophisticated to the last detail – there is nothing that disturbs the intended image of spiritual harmony. Free from directly visible technology, the sauna is positioned in the middle of a room; all units are hidden and mounted on a pull-out carrier. The control system, heater with ventilation unit and the evaporator are always accessible but never in view. The control concept too follows its Indian model of inspiration: in the same way as the age-old ceremony started by heating a stone in a fire and carrying it with a stag’s antler into a tent, the sauna session also starts with a “stone” – in the form of a hand-held remote control with a clearly laid-out display.
Pearl River Necklace, Project by NL Architects
Dutch NL Architects have designed a conceptual bridge for the Hong Kong border, featuring roads that would loop over each other to allow for the fact that traffic must drive on the left in Hong Kong but on the right in China.
The idea to construct the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities as “a new Landmark to reflect Hong Kong as a vibrant global and metropolitan city” is an inspiring endeavor.
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Vac from the Sea – Electrolux Collects Plastic from the Oceans
The Pacific Ocean is polluted with the largest floating garbage islands in the world. The initiative – “Vac from the Sea” – aims to bring attention to the issue of plastic pollution and at the same time combat the scarcity of recycled plastics needed for making sustainable home appliances.
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Buckyballs: Gold, Silver, and Black Editions
Buckyballs launched 3 new Executive Editions. The new editions are GOLD, These new colors will offer you make more cool shapes and patterns. You can mixture balls with different colors and make more cool patterns or just make original Buckyballs cube. Each Buckyballs set comes with 216 rare earth magnets that can be molded and stuck together in whatever shape your heart desires.
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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 engineering wonder. This unique structural masterpiece, designed by visionary architect Moshe Safdie, floats atop the three soaring Marina Bay Sands hotel towers 200m in the sky.
Virginia Tech’s Prefab Lumenhaus Wins 2010 Solar Decathlon
This year’s winner of the 10-day competition was Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus, an 800-square-foot solar-powered home inspired by architect Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House.
The prefab homes of the future won’t just be relatively cheap and easy to build on the fly–they’ll also be ultra-sustainable. For evidence of what these homes will look like, we need only direct our attention toward this year’s European Solar Decathlon, which asks teams to “clearly demonstrate that solar houses can be built without sacrificing energy efficiency or comfort, and that they can be both attractive and affordable.”
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Volkswagen Builds “Fast Lane” Slide In A Subway
For those looking to move a little quicker, auto giant Volkswagen has created a “Fast Lane” slide at the Alexanderplatz subway station in Berlin. So the commuters have the choice to either take the staircase or have fun and save time by sliding down the Fast Lane.
An idea that I’ve seen discussed many times before but not put into practice, VW put a slide into an underground train station in Berlin, giving people a fast way down, as this video shows…
“OR2” by Orproject
Designed by London-based Orproject, the “OR2” is a sustainable installation that combines a shading device with a solar-powered chandelier to dazzle the Belgrave Square during the London Festival of Architecture. Working as a shelter that collects solar energy using photovoltaic cells during the day, the luminous pink tree-shaped mechanism becomes a scintillating chandelier at night, spreading the illumination all through the Square. Employing photo-reactive technology at an architectural scale, the OR2 remains in constant interaction with the elements to give it unique appearance at each moment of the day.
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Casa JE by Humberto Hermeto
The JE House designed by Brazilian architect Humberto Hermeto set on a hill overlooking a vast valley. The JE House boasts walls of floor-to-ceiling glass and integrates outdoor living spaces into its light.
Communication between the various levels of the residence is made by a central core that contains an elevator. It connects directly the first level of the gallery to the residence level. In an intermediate level, it connects the service and garage floor, the mezzanine of the gallery.
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3D Printed Sculptures Made out of Human Ashes by Wieki Somers
Dutch artist Wieki Somers is using the ashes of dead people to create common household objects using a 3D industrial printer. The actual sculptures are made out of human remains and show that even in post-life you could become a bird or a toaster.
Artist Wieki Somers said the project demonstrates the fragility of life and questions our attachment to inanimate objects.
The Goat Bridge
An awesome farmer in Ekton, Maryland created this twisted and towering goat bridge to give his goats access to two separate pens, and no doubt add some enjoyment to his day.
Via [Neatorma]
Car Motel Project by John Farrace
Los Angeles is a huge city that, because of its size and transportation infrastructure, allows for an unprecedented amount of diversity contained in a single city. The people of Los Angeles are connected through massive freeway systems that become extremely clogged and, as a result, the act of driving takes longer than it should. Because of this, driving becomes an introverted experience. We lose interest in the environment (specifically the built environment) around us because none of it engages us and/or pertains to us; we get preoccupied with the radio, our cell phone, shaving, reading the newspaper or whatever.
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“Tulip,” Wine Glass by James Nash
“Tulip” wine glass by James Nash is pretty simple, and therein lies the genius. The wine, currently M&S, Mark and Spenser stores, comes in a single-serving plastic wine glass with a removable top similar to what one would find on the top of a yoghurt container. It’s peeled off and the fresh wine is consumed.
Tulip looks like it’s available in red, white, and murky orange flavors. You can currently only get it in the UK and Europe, with promises of US distribution “in the near future.”
James Nash
Narrow House Bassam by El-Okeily
This curios house located in Bilzen, a small city in the north-east of Belgium is the first building designed by the Egypt born and Brussels based architect Bassam El-Okeily. Its wide glass front fills the building’s modest width of only 5,30 m and stages the cubistic interior – the dramatic colourful light concept does the rest.
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Qlocktwo
QLOCKTWO makes you pause and allows a different view of time. The typographic front combines the moment with the written word and makes it a statement. „It is half past eight.“ LED lighting technology keeps things readable, and an ambient light sensor keeps the thing from giving your house a neon-lit bar room vibe — which is about the last thing a laptop-priced clock should do. The front surface is made of polished acrylic glass. The lacquered wooden body supports it by means of eight magnets. That way the front surface can be replaced without visible attachments. There are satin stainless steel or five colours of polished synthetic glass to choose from, each generating contrasts or consistencies in interplay with their surroundings.
Qlocktwo
Via [Uncrate]
