The Insect Hotel
The Insect Hotel is the winner of the British Land (a British real estate company) architecture competition called Beyond the Hive for artists to come up with designs for urban habitats for insect species.
The competition was held in London and the winning design was from a London based architecture consulting firm, Arup [...]
Wohr Multiparker
Wohr Multiparker system is an innovative and space saving parking system. The structure is modeled in similar lines to a high-rack shelving system with parking spaces stacked above and beside one another laterally arranged on either side of a conveyor aisle.
Here is a video of an underground public automatic car park with 404 parking [...]
The Tree Sculpture
The Tree is a reconstruction from a series of interlocking frames with lights that pulsates gently in the night. Hanging microphones simulating that of aerial roots will also detect environment sounds and alter the lighting nature of the Tree – glowing intensely and dimming down with the rising and falling sound levels.
The Tree is designed [...]
Camper bike
Camper Bike is a low cost, eco-friendly concept for outdoor and camping enthusiasts. This sculptural piece is part of Kevin Cyr’s art project. Interesting!
Towel hooks
Interesting towel hook design on wall tiles by Amsterdam, Netherlands based Droog design. Cool functional tiles. [via]
Lumenhaus - Future of housing
Lumenhaus is building a house, an 800 sq. ft. zero-energy house that is completely powered by the sun. A house that wakes you up, tells you how its doing and dresses for the weather. LUMEN means “the power of light” and HAUS is a reference to the BauHaus movement. The word Haus in German [...]
Lofted forest home
Designed by Robert Harvey Oshatz, this lofted forest home is in Portland, Oregon.
The idea was to make the house as part of the natural landscape. One must actually stroll through the house to grasp its complexities and its connection to the exterior. One example is a natural wood ceiling, floating on curved laminated [...]
Floating Apartments
Designed by Koen Olthuis of Waterstudio, the Citadel will be the world’s first floating apartment complex when completed in the Netherlands.
Built on top of of a floating foundation, the Citadel will house 60 luxury apartments, a car park, and a floating road to access the complex as well as boat docks. Each unit will [...]
Carre D’etoiles Popup cabins
Carré d’étoiles are portable and reversible cube-shaped structures crafted with recyclable wood. Included in each parquet-floored cabin are a double cabin bed, a sofa bed for two, a kitchenette with refrigerator and hot plates, shower, toilet, wardrobe, electric heating, a bio-ethanol fireplace and cast-iron garden furniture for outside. In addition to modern conveniences like flat-screen [...]
Swimming pool illusion
This is an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich.
Leandro is known for installations that seem to defy the basic laws of physics and befuddle the viewer, who is introduced into a sense of balance jarring environments that momentarily threaten or space.
Leandro Erlich constructed a full-size pool, complete with all [...]
