New & Cool Architecture
New & Cool Architecture / Car from made ice
November 4, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton 
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Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
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New & Cool Architecture / Matchstick buildings
October 31, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
I remember as a kid frantically trying to please my craft teacher by constructing a toy car out of matchsticks. The fact that it looked more like a science experiment was irrelevant. It was the journey, the process that mattered. Or at least I thought until I saw what other people were capable of. These startling creations were made entirely from matchsticks and I bow down to their grandiose splendor. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Comic books greatest urban spaces
October 29, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | 
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The Architects Journal has compiled a cleverly-made video tribute to ‘the greatest illustrated urban spaces’.
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New & Cool Architecture / Playground design by Norwegian architects
October 22, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
When I was a kid, our swingset was embedded in the rather uncompromising textures of rock hard cement. What can I say, Greek relatives! They love their concrete. This creative and functional playground design by Norwegian architects 70°N Arkitektur features mobile walls which hide toys for kids to discover. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Make Archtects reshape the London skyline
October 15, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Casper Johansson |
London-based Make Architects have designed this nine-storey building with its asymmetrical pattern, which, according to the Arch In Home website, ‘is determined by the constraints of the site, with the southern elevation curving gently to address the Monument and define an enlarged and newly activated public square at ground level. This elevation is clad in a faceted glazed facade which reflects the Monument to provide a spectacular backdrop to the new public square. The facade also lifts up at ground level to create entrances to the building and to the retail units on the ground floor’. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Taichung Convention Center, Taiwan
October 9, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Gerry Mak |
Beijing architecture firm MAD Ltd. recently completed a design for the new Taichung Convention Center in Taiwan. The impressive building strives to be a ‘continuous weave’ with the local landscape with its fluid lines and airy ‘outer-skin’ which doubles as a solar power generator that greatly reduces the building’s overall energy demands.
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New & Cool Architecture / South Korea’s Dalki Theme Park
October 7, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Casper Johansson |
Designed by Slade Architecture in collaboration with Ga.A Architects and Mass Studies, the Dalki Theme Park in South Korea’s Kyungki Province is a shrine to a popular cartoon character used to promote clothing and other goodies to young Korean children. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Melting ice figures in Berlin
September 30, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Casper Johansson |
The problem with building ice figures is that the damn things are always so determined to melt. These remarkable looking ice figures were created recently by the World Wildlife Fund to raise awareness about global warming. There were 1,000 figures all up, each of which melted throughout the day on the steps of the concert hall at Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Church converted to modern bookstore
September 26, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Katriane Hill |
Deep in the heart of the Dominican Republic lies an unusual bookstore, aptly named Selexyz Dominicanen. It is housed in Maastricht, in the bowels of an ancient church which was constructed in 1294. Since it’s interruption as a church (Napoleon invaded Maastricht in 1794 and forced the loyal parishioners out of the country), this beautiful church has seen use as a parish, warehouse, and most notably (and creatively), a large parking lot for bicycles. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Will Cotton’s candy house
September 23, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
Ok, so this is actually an artwork by Will Cotton, but it fits every criteria for my dream house, aged 6. Smartie wall coatings? Check. Biscuit entryway? Check. A smiling lollipop garden, sitting over luscious dollops of magnificent cream? You betcha. Ah, please, take me there. Now. And give me a decent sized spoon for my troubles.
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New & Cool Architecture / House made from pallets
September 19, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
These days you can practically make a house from anything: matchsticks, cards, even bits of wood scrap. This Pallet House actually comes with a purpose. Designed by Azin Valy and Suzan Wines of I-Beam Design, the intention is for it to be used in disaster environments where there really is no other choice of resilient materials.
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New & Cool Architecture / Feline friendly doll house
September 17, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
When I grow up, I want to have a house like this one: with creaking furniture, calming floral wallpaper, and a giant cat that visits whenever I crack open the milk. [photo by Sage Sohier]
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New & Cool Architecture / Parisian swimming pool
September 11, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Casper Johansson |
Continuing our recent obsession with outrageous swimming pool designs, is this one by The Office for Metropolitan Architecture — led by Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu and Victor van der Chijs. According to architect, Michael van der Gaag, who wrote about the project: ‘The client wanted a glass house with a swimming pool on the roof and two separate apartments — one for the parents, the other for the daughter’. Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / The Pool at The Joule, Dallas TX
September 9, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
There’s something kinda fun about a swimming pool that dangles enticingly off the edge of a luxury hotel while the rest of the world watches on with a mixture of mock envy and bemused contempt. In my next life, I want to own one of these, then taunt the other half with graceful aquatic antics on windswept Dallas afternoons. [photo by Justin Terveen] Read more
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New & Cool Architecture / Matchstick racing car
September 1, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
German-based Michael Arndt spent six years and a bucket of dough constructing a McLaren Formula One car from 956,000 matchsticks and 1,686 tubes of glue. The car, which can be broken down into 45 pieces for transport, has a top speed of zero miles per hour. But damn, it looks fun to drive. Read more
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I really really dig the busy, fragmented paintings of Jason Jagel. It’s full of colourful stencil-like shapes and free form doodles and it’s all crammed together into the claustrophobic quarters of his paper like an oversized sketchbook come to life.
I’ve been waiting for a group like this. These New Puritans are balls in your face, 100 miles an hour, pure attack! A young British group that has most of the UK press in the palm of their skinny pale hands, they hint at a sonic mash of Bloc Party mixed with what White Rose Movement were supposed to be. What more could you want?
Listen to the These New Puritans track, Elvis.
Miwa Yanagi’s Fairytale series consists of very creepy photographic interpretations of classic Western fairytales. Read more
Anything goes in New York, even a white peacock in the middle of Manhattan. Yes, a white peacock! Who says the Upper West side is ‘upstate?’ Come visit one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in New York, which host the famous Cathedral of St. John The Divine (112th St. and Amsterdam Avenue). Read more
Seldom has black humour been done so well. On the surface, this film about the everyday lives of some unusually mundane characters, sounds extraordinarily boring. But it is instead a cutting comment on the absurdity and drudgery of everyday life. The characters try to break out or change their lives without success, and the results are bleak and hilarious. Read more
We used to depend on sundials back in the day, but now there are multiple ways to tell the time. And Tokyo Flash has just invented another one. Based on LED technology, these watches are not only stylish but futuristic and wildly innovative. They even have a watch from minimalist designer Naoto Fukasawa that is more than just your basic timepiece. The Tokyo Flash site says that their watches are supposed to ‘resemble the various moods of a human’, and they’re definitely an attention grabber. These are watches to take us right through to the 22nd century.
Those old issues of Popular Mechanics that forecasted the wondrous technological developments of tomorrow now seem dated and more representative of the times in which they were published than the times they tried to predict. Read more
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Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
Charlie Immer’s pastel-pallete sometimes obfuscates the gory violence in his surreal images. At other times, it heightens the gut-wrenching and visceral effect of his work. Read more
Hong Kong-based illustrator Man-Tsun draws dark and beautiful painterly images that look like they are straight off a high-end Japanese animated film. Read more
Yum, yum, cupcakes are fun. These creations are so clever, so arty, so damn bizarre that it would almost be a shame to eat them. Almost! Read more
Our celebrity-saturated culture makes many of us irrationally hateful of the faces we see on our TV screens and magazine pages. Good thing there’s Celebrity PunchOut to let off some of that steam.
Wolfmother. Rock n roll. Mystical lyrics. Heavy riffs. They have a new album out, Cosmic Egg, and we have five copies to giveaway, along with their debut album. To enter, tell us your favorite Wolfmother song and the city you live in. Yo! Two fingered salute. Read more
Using both highly rendered images and softer graphic design elements, Nate Frizzell weaves stories into his paintings that we all can see ourselves being a part of. Giclee print on Sommerset velvet archival paper 12”x20” in a limited edition of 25.
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