The Way i Go

Cité du Design in Saint-Étienne

Here are a few shots of the Cité du Design in Saint-Étienne, France by LIN Finn Geipel Giulia Andi. The building opened on the first of October. LIN was featured previously on this web page for their design of Saint-Nazaire Alvéole 14 in Saint-Nazaire, France. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width:...

James May’s LEGO House Destined for Ruins

The life-sized LEGO house built by the British TV presenter James May faces imminent destruction after LEGOLAND Windsor withdrew their plans to purchase the massive structure due to expensive transportation costs. The house was built with about 3 million LEGO bricks supplied by the LEGO Group and took about 1000 volunteers who worked tirelessly for about a month to complete. It features a furnished...

LIVE FOREVER The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition Winner

The winner of the LIVE FOREVER The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition was announced on Friday. “Baddest” is the MJ Public Domain Countdown by fi5e from Hong Kong. It is basically a billboard version of an online countdown that “counts down to the moment when all of Michael Jacksons’ creative content will enter the public domain. In 70 years when the clock reaches...

The Paraty House by Marcio Kogan Architects

Paraty House’s two reinforced concrete boxes, sit atop each other, connected on the mountainside of one of the islands of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), like two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast. The building projects outward from the mountain, almost onto the beach, in an 8m cantilever. The house finds...

WISA Wooden Design Hotel by Pieta-Linda Auttila

WISA Wooden Design Hotel in Helsinki’s harbor is the result of a 24-hour competition organized by UPM, one of Finland’s leading forest product companies. The winning design, which was created by interior architecture student Pieta-Linda Auttila, was built as a temporary structure. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top:...

The Interlace by OMA

Architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have unveiled new images of a residential project for Singapore, comprising long low apartment blocks stacked in hexagonal configurations. The arrangement allows for communal spaces, roof gardens, terraces and balconies.

Amazing Crystal Mesh

  Currently being realised in Singapore, Crystal Mesh is a new media facade which is the result of a collaboration between WOHA architects, Singapore and media architecture specialists realities:united, Berlin. “Crystal Mesh consists of a tessellated pattern made of 3,000 modules of deep-drawn polycarbonate covering a façade area of more than 5,000 m2. About 1,900 of these modules contain a regular...

Toy Fanatic Builds a House from LEGO

James May, a toy fanatic from the UK building a real house from LEGO. The two-story Lego palace is located in the middle of a vineyard and has a working bathroom. James used bricks pieced together by 272 Legos. Over three million bricks were used so that’s about 816 million Lego pieces. Quite an amazing job. #gallery-4 { margin: auto; } #gallery-4 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top:...

8-Story Antigravity Forest Facade Takes Root

#gallery-5 { margin: auto; } #gallery-5 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-5 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-5 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } When Patrick Blanc was a boy, he suspended...

Cascading Books

Stream of book installations created by Alycia Martin.

James Dyson’s Uphill Water Flow Illusion

This fountain, which appeared at the Royal Horticultural Society’s recent Chelsea Flower Show, was designed by noted British vacuum sexifier James Dyson. Inspired by Escher’s “Waterfall,” Dyson’s “Wrong Garden” incorporates a clever design to create the illusion that water flows up each of the four ramps before cascading over the end. A detail of how it really...

Building a Skyscraper in a Small Area

Untitled from mark mitchell on Vimeo.

Apartment buildings form barrier against fire in Tokyo

A trivia program tells us why the Shirahige apartment complex in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward is set up like a wall (this clip is subtitled in English): The apartment complex is set up like a 1.5 kilometer wall with the aim of protecting a designated evacuation zone from fires. Back when it was built, the area had many wooden buildings and planners wanted to be sure that residents had a safe area that would...

Solar Tent Concept

This concept by Orange would allow campers to keep in touch using their gadgets and such in their solar-powered tent. The heart of the Concept Tent is a central wireless control hub which displays energy generated and consumed as well as providing a wireless internet signal; all information is displayed on a flexible, touchscreen LCD display screen.

“Miniature Wonderland” The Largest Model Railroad

The Miniatur Wunderland, in Hamburg, Germany, the world’s largest model railroad. More than 500,000 hours of labour were needed to present the layout you see in the above video.