We’ve all experienced the anger and frustration of being stuck at what seems to be a never-ending red light. Mr Stankovic is eager to change the status quo.
Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
Berlin celebrates (or, in some cases, commiserates) the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There’s loads of information on the official website, but the Berlin Twitter Wall is a fun spin-off idea that’s worth a look.
Crate man: a man made from milk crates. He gets about more than you’d think…
Do you have $2.3m burning a hole in your pocket? Why not purchase 370 Beech Street, Ferris Beuller’s home in the eponymous film.
Amazingly, the tube carriages that have adorned a rooftop on Old Street are actually piss cheap (£15 a week!) office space. One assumes at that price you’ll only get a desk, but hey, that’s still remarkably good value given the location. Bravo Village Underground!
England’s much maligned second city is often the subject of derision, but who knows, with projects like this on the horizon people may well take it more seriously.
Anna Garforth’s experiments with moss – “living, breathing graffiti.”
Those fine folks over at the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group have done a rather excellent job of recreating the Beijing Olympic Village with 300,000 blocks of Lego.
A write up can be found on the official HKLUG’s blog.
John Ivers loves roller coasters. So much so that he built one in his back garden. Judging by the video, it looks like his whole family will die of broken necks, but until they do it looks like great fun!
London has a surprising number of abandoned swimming pools. Little wonder most children are obese monsters these days.
A wonderful, innovative billboard ad for Anando Milk by McCann Erickson India. It’s been shortlisted for a Lion.
Some rather brilliant chaps at the Berlin Technical University have created a rather wacky and wonderful architectural gem in the form of a kindergarden school.
More details and more pictures can be found of Taka Tuka Land here
The Urbantine Project competition offers unrecognised architects the opportunity to showcase their ideas three-dimensionally during London Design Week. The brief is to design a solution to the issue of rapid change in the 21st century workplace, with an emphasis on communication and technology.
The award-winning Casulo is surely the way forward for furnishing affordable in a jiffy. The “apartment in a box” really does have everything you need to get your home up-and-running in no time:
- wardrobe
- single bed with mattress
- large desk/table with separate lockable drawers
- revolving, height adjustable desk chair
- two stools
- shelving unit
The following animated gif (please, contain your excitement!) shows the Casulo in action:
If animated gifs make you wretch with low-resolution sickness, check out these nice photos:
