Kinetic Car Sculpture
Impressive kinetic sculpture made of 714 metallic balls at BMW Museum, Munich. The balls dance, flow and eventually form the shape of a vintage motor.
Shiro
Do you remember Kuro ?
Built in 2006 but not published before, Shiro is a hair salon in Fukui, Japan, built by the same architects. Shiro means white in Japanese, in contrast to Kuro, which means black.
“Shiro”
design: 1980 / Takuya Hosokai + Hiromasa Mori
Place: Fukui city, Fukui prefecture, Japan
program: Beauty Salon
Built: June, 2006
The Cloud
http://www.vimeo.com/1199539
An organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers. Constructed of carbon glass, spanning over four meters, and containing more than 65 kilometers of fiber optics, the cloud encourages visitors to touch and interact with information in new ways, manifesting […]
Kuro
Kuro is a house in Fukui city, Japan, by architect Takuya Hosokai and Hiromasa Mori.
“Kuro” is Japanese for “black”.
“Kuro”
design: 1980 / Takuya Hosokai + Hiromasa Mori
Place: Fukui city, Fukui prefecture, Japan
program: residential house
Built: July, 2007
source : dezeen
BMW GINA Light Visionary
Aside from creating some of the most technologically advanced and respected automobiles in the world, BMW has debuted their latest innovation, the GINA Light Visionary Model. The dynamic model enables a car’s structure to shape and change and reflects an all new way of thinking and approach to the automotive world. The GINA acronym […]
Supersize Me
What will have 12 million LEDs and cover almost 44,000 square feet when it is finally finished in Fall? New York’s biggest billboard, that’s what. Covering three sides of the building at 1 Times Square, the “Spectacular,” as these things are known, will display the flag of drugstore company Walgreen, which is opening a massive […]
Bookseat by Fishbol
This will fit my dreamy residence very nice. Useful, looks comfortable too. The ultimate place for inspiration, filled will graphic design books collection and other magazines.
The “Bookseat” Chair is done by the guys from Fishbol - Elie Nehme & Mani Mani, both graduates of Carleton School of Architecture. Although strong ties have been kept between […]
A place I want to live
I was browsing yesterday my daily feeds and I discovered a place, one of the places to be honest, that I’d love to see myself sleeping, eating, thinking of any kind of stuff. Shame it’s in France (No offense french guys, I’m not big fan of France as attitude and stuff, I’d prefer to be […]
Most beautiful post-war olympic stadiums
With the possible exception of the 1972 Munich olympic stadium, Beijing’s “Birds Nest” stadium, designed by fashionable Swiss architects, Herzog & de Meuron, promises to be the clear winner, architecturally. Here is a list of all 16 post-war olympic stadia. Vote for your faves. My personal favorite is the above shown Beijing Olympic Stadium.
How cool a car place can be?
I’ve been suffering a lot from parking space in Sofia. The streets are overcrowded, cars are everywhere, people do not feel comfortable when walking. The whole structure of the city isn’t proposed to have that amount of cars and it is growing and growing. The government can’t do absolutely anything. There’s no place of any […]