Gary Connery Completes 2400ft Skydive Without Parachute
Gary Connery landed on a strip measuring about 350ft (100m) by 45ft (15m) – and at its highest point 12ft off the ground – at Temple Island Meadows, on the Buckinghamshire and Berkshire border.
In order to survive the audacious stunt, he had to flare his wing suit about 200ft from his target in order to bring his gliding speed down to 50mph and his vertical falling speed to 15mph.
Pantone Appliances Kitchen by Antonio Lanzillo & Partners
Antonio Lanzillo & Partners in Milan have presented their latest project – a kitchen with all appliances in assorted color codes of the iconic company Pantone.The kitchen features OLED multitouch control pad appliances and can even be controlled via smartphone.
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Robin Falck’s Micro House
Robin Falck got the idea to built a cabin/small house that would be small enough to be built without the need of a permit. So Robin started daydreaming about different possibilities and desiged and planned the house. He contacted a couple of architects who helped him with some of the more technical stuff.
Then the construction began.
Robin had already chosen the place and had it in mind when designing the cabin. On june the 5th he started the construction and 2 weeks later the only thing missing where the window and door which arrived a couple weeks later.
It is 96 sq. ft. and has a 50 sq. ft. loft where I have my bed and store my clothes. I call my house “Nido” which loosely translated into Italian means “Birds nest.” The house sits on the lakeshore and views of the lake can be seen from both the bottom floor and the loft.
The bottom floor is pretty much a lounge/living room where I lay back and enjoy the starlight along with some smooth jazz. The house is designed to maximize the allowed 96 sq. ft., acoustics and to bring in as much as possible of the natural light and nature during the night as during the day.
Dami Series by Seung Yong Song
Korean designer Seung Yong Song has created Dami series inspired by the structure of Korean traditional grille. The collection is a combination of new eco-friendly materials called Valchromat and CNC processing technique that make possible to materialize modern objet with traditional beauty. Read More…
Christian Popsicles by Sebastian Errazuriz
These popsicles by artist Sebastian Errazuriz “are made of “frozen holy wine transformed into the blood of Christ” and featuring a crucifix instead the tongue depressor that typically hosts the frozen treats.
An image of Jesus Christ positioned traditionally on the cross is visible once the ice pop is consumed. As for the frozen wine, Errazuriz said, he concealed it in a cooler and took it into a church, where it was “inadvertently blessed by the priest while turning wine into the blood of Christ during the Eucharist.” Read More…
Moss Graffiti by Stefaan de Croock
The Belgian artists was commissioned by De Invasie and STUK as part of a larger exhibition on sustainable living. This super green street art is made by cleaning rather than adding on.
A wall along a staircase leading into the centre was covered with moss and Strook used it as the backdrop for his latest work. Using a hand-held pressure washer, he etched his designs into the moss and algae. With this is graphic art via cleaning, no chemicals, paint or cleaning agents were used at all.
“More and more, we are dictated by technology. That intrigues me. And so do the cities we live in. That’s why I populate my drawings with humanoids – robots with a human shape – and cyborgs – physical merges of man and machine.”
Water Display by Koei Industry
This Printer fountain created by Koei Industry located at the Osaka Station City in a shopping mall shows a digital-style time readout, spitting out numbers three times, as well as scrolling patterns including floral motifs in 2D. Read More…
VillaLola by ARKÍS Architects
VillaLola by Arkis Architects is built with a frame of sustainable goal settings. Villa Lola is clad on the exterior with Larch-wood. The larch is weathered to its nature gray-ish color, forming a natural weather protection. All loadbearing members are of wood except for one concrete wall, used for stabilizing the structure, and a concrete foundation. Flooring is of robust wooden boards and concrete terrazzo.
Inner walls are gypsum surfaced stud frame walls painted with environmentally friendly paint. All windows are of wood, clad with aluminum on the exterior. During the construction process the plot was carefully protected and the working space around the building was minimized. During construction, all waste was carefully sorted and appropriate materials sent to recycling. The building is specially designed as a low maintenance structure. Read More…
Parking Roof Made of Recycled Plastic Bottles by Garth Britzman
Find on DesignRulz , this stunning topographical shade canopy for a vehicle created by Garth Britzman with recycled bottles filled with colored water. This project reused recycled soda bottles as a canopy under which a small park is created.
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…
Whangapoua, Prefab Hut by Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects
Whangapoua is a Prefab Hut built by Architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan on the shore of an idyllic white sanded beach in New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula rests an elegant hut. Closed up, the rough macrocarpa-cladding blends into the landscape and perches quietly on the dunes, as passersby wonder how it could possibly function for a family of five.
Designed to close up against the elements, the hut measures a mere 40 square metres and rests on two thick wooden ‘sleds’ that allow it to be shifted around the beach front section. This innovative portability is a response to the ever changing landscape that line the beachfront in this coastal erosion zone. Read More…
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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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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Architect’s Eye by SPeeCH Tchoban & Kuznetsov
Sergei Tschoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, partners of the Moscow based architecture studio SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. As part of this year’s Interni Legacy event at the Università Statale in Milan,
A stainless steel sphere, completely smooth and reflecting, features an LED system to create the image of a huge human eyeball that rotates to look to the sky as well as at visitors, or at visitors, or at the ground, changing the color of the iris and the size of the pupil. Inside the eye, there are images of monuments of the Russian avant-garde, which now lie abandoned: a strong message about the need to conserve our history and cultural legacy. 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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