Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
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:
The humble Post-It Note – life as we know it would come to an abrupt end without these excellent little squares of paper. Most people write notes on them, but a few knowledgeable artists and stationery scientists do all sorts of wonderful things with them.
The following art installation (for want of a better term – is it “street art”?) is currently on display in New York.
Of course, there’s the classic Super Mario Post-It Note work:
Cheeky Dutchman Gijs Gieskes is now shipping his homemade Gameboy bricks worldwide at €31,30 a pop with free worldwide shipping.
Unsold copies of notorious pop mongrel Robbie Williams‘ latest album Rudebox are to be recycled and used to surface roads in China.
On the one hand, I pity Robbie; he’s received a resounding thumbs down from the public, who’ve chosen not to invest his latest creative endeavour. However, one must give credit to EMI for their clever (and very PR-worthy!) recycling initiative.
BLDGBLOG has posted an interview with urban explorer Michael Cook featuring some remarkable photos of Canada’s sewage system.
Fans of sewage and drains could do worse than take a look beneath the streets of Tokyo – the other-worldy view is reminiscent of computer games such as Half Life.
