August 23, 2007 | New & Cool Architecture | by Snell |
British architect Will Alsop’s design for the new Filmport complex in Toronto has just been unveiled and is set to be one of the largest film studios on the North American continent. Read more
August 21, 2007 | New Eco | by Snell |
This water theatre by the British architect, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw of Grimshaw Architects, takes the form of a vertical seawater greenhouse, with the evaporators and condensers stacked vertically to maximise yield. The structure is not only a visible engine of sustainability but is also a large theatre auditorium. Read more
August 19, 2007 | New Eco | by Snell |
On the harbour in Vuurplaat, Rotterdam, a proposed Urban Cactus rises from the usually boxy Dutch architectural landscape. Read more
August 15, 2007 | New Art | by Snell |
Featured at London’s Tate Museum earlier this year, these giant human slides certainly drew the crowds. Read more
August 11, 2007 | New & Cool Architecture | by Snell |
Wondering what the latest architecture being built in the new Russia is like? Read more
August 8, 2007 | New Design | by Snell |
A red carpet has enveloped the surface in and around the financial district of St. Gallen, a north-eastern city of Switzerland. Read more
July 16, 2007 | New Eco | by Snell |
In Los Angeles, in the gas guzzling centre of the Universe, BP has enlisted Office dA to embrace the paradoxical task of creating a green petrol station. Read more
July 14, 2007 | New Design | by Snell |
Internationally feted designer Marc Newson first turned his hand to Qantas first class Skybed seats and now has had a crack at their Sydney First Class Lounge, as shown here. Read more
July 12, 2007 | New Trends | by Snell |
In 2004, a local government in Paris revealed plans to redevelop an area of the city. However, in response to time lag and a lack of consultation, a residents group launched a virtual design competition for the area in Second Life. Read more
July 6, 2007 | New Trends | by Snell |
To Dutch designer, Tejo Remy, a fence could be so much more than simply a separation or delineation of space. This gorgeous project, Playground Fence, explores a fence that can be part of the playground and not just its border.
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July 3, 2007 | New Trends | by Snell |
Fancy staying in a pipe? Well dasparkhotel would like to ‘offer a temporary comfortable uncomplicated home for a certain time’. Read more
June 28, 2007 | New Design | by Snell |
At 200 meters long and 12 metres tall, this vertical garden is an impressive permanent installation at the Musee du quai Branley in Paris. Read more
June 23, 2007 | New Eco | by Snell |
Digital artist Tim Jarvis produced this beautiful image of a NanoCity as part of his Magnasoma — Collected Exploratory Aesthetics. Read more
June 20, 2007 | New Photography | by Snell |
Michael Wolf, a German born American photographer, has lived in Hong Kong since 1995. His work explores the ways city-dwellers in China and Hong Kong shape their surroundings in an ‘organic metropolis’. His series — Architecture of Density — has some breathtaking images of Hong Kong’s apartment buildings.
June 18, 2007 | New Trends | by Snell |
Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an interdisciplinary firm, who in their own words, ‘straddle architecture, urban design, visual arts and the performing arts’. Seemingly constantly creative, they have turned their attention to the concept of an Eco House, working with Atelier Ten, an environmental design firm. Named the Phantom House, the conceptual home is owned by a conceptual couple – J, who is an engineer working for a software-development firm, and M, who is a consultant for an Internet marketing company. This very now couple live in a ‘guilt-free, sustainable luxury house that thrives on excess’. By transforming redundancies into efficiencies, the inhabitants and the house form a feedback loop, in which energy produced in everyday activities can be banked and later reused. A remarkably well-presented and considered eco proposal, it is one of the few that attempts to tackle the weakness of us all – our consumption – head on and then turn it into a fuel.
Seiko Tachibana is a Japanese born, San Francisco artist who beautifully blends the juxtapositions of her experience in her work. Taditional tendencies with a modern approach, excellent use of negative space, and the boldness to work in large formats, her art to me seems so respectful of traditions while offering a glimpse of a design oriented future.
In my teenage years, I was a fanatical collector of Archie Comics, living my life vicariously through the mischevious misadventures of Archie, Betty, Veronica and the gang. Eventually I sold my collection to a high school friend, who bought several garbage bags worth of digests along with my prized Ozi skate deck. This vibrant artwork by Singapore-based designer Hanyi Lee takes me back to that time and I kinda wish that I’d kept the damn things, if only for a few more moments of saccharine sweet escapism within their apple pie, primary colour world.
Welcome to the street where originality lives: the adidas Originals neighborhood. This is where athletes, musicians, skaters, artists, entertainers and more all come together to show their colors, their style and their originality. Join Snoop Dogg, Agnes Deyn, Jeremy Scott and more at the adidas Originals street party to end all street parties. Celebrate Originality.
The Highline railway track is a 30 foot high, 1.45 mile long disused piece of infrastructure threading its way through 22 blocks of downtown Manhattan. Read more
The future, and how people imagined it back in the day, is the subject of the Paleo-Future blog by Matt Novak. Since Janury 2007, he has become what he calls ‘an accidental expert on visions of the future’, gathering a gigantic collection of retro-futuristic documents, art and media. Read more
Growing up on the road in the deep south of America will either maim you or make you stronger. In Ryan Bingham’s case, it was the latter. Read more
Designer Tithi Kutchamuch created this amazing life-sized bronze, silver, and aluminum parrot whose skull and organs you can pluck out to wear as a necklace.
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Christoph Niemann illustrates a nightmare flight
New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann has created a brilliant visual diary outlining the peril and pitfalls that beset the everyday passenger based on his recent experience flying from New York to his home town of Berlin. Read more
Communication prosthesis by Sascha Nordmeyer
This ‘communication prosthesis’ by designer Sascha Nordmeyer is hilarious and awesome. I want to wear one to a job interview.
Benjamin Edminston’s psychedelic heads seem to have some fearful wisdom behind their blissed-out eyes. Read more
Baltimore Mural by Josh Van Horne
My friend Josh Van Horne, a local Baltimore artist, did this amazing mural in our neighborhood that depicts the history of this warehouse-laden area.
Mathematics? Leave me out. Fashematics? Now you’re talking! This gem of a site is a runway equation that adds up to a whole lot of wonderful.
Sometime in 2010, the folks behind Dirty Dishes had the slightly silly idea of using cheeky vintage photos and putting them on dinner plates. After doing lots of research, talking to lots of people, and receiving loads of positive feedback, they wondered if this idea was so silly after all. And thus Dirty Dishes was born. Read more
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