Señoras que hacen cosas en facebook

El fenomeno de las señoras que hacen cosas en facebook es pasajero ¡Menos mal!

No os perdais el corto

Alan Wilder came back home

House in Koamicho

Architects: Suppose design office
Location: Koamicho, Hiroshima, Japan
Site Area: 102.86 sqm
Building Area: 62.80 sqm
Total Floor Area: 121.97 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2009

The magic carpets designed to keep you awake and gambling

Chris Maluszynski, 35,has spent four years snapping the kaleidoscopic designs after noticing the garish carpets that line the hotels and casinos at Las Vegas have an important part to play. Some clues:

-The outrageous carpets do nothing to distract gamblers.

-A floral carpet is a garish designs intended to keep casino regulars awake.

-Greens and reds are used to make dropped chips harder to find.

-Wheel designs are used to remind punters of the ever turning wheel of fortune.

Rellenando agujeros

Parafraseando a alguien que no recuerdo, Iñaqui Ábalos decía que los rascacielos eran las erecciones de las ciudades: simbolo fálico de la masculina excitación económica, este sacacorchos lo intentó plantar Santiago Calatrava en una de las zonas más exclusivas de Chicago The Chicago Spire, 420 E. North Water St. Luego vino la crisis y quedó un enorme y vaginal agujero ¡Simbólico! Las depresiones arquitectónicas son femeninas también. Deseosos de rellenarlo ¡Como no! los machotes jerifaltes de la ciudad de Obama y del viento han convocado el consurso "Mine the gap" ¿Lo pillais? "Mind the gap" en el metro ¡Dios, cuanto ingenio!

Using CO2 to make concrete

Carbon Negative Concrete by Calera

• Concrete is the most widely used man-made material
• Concrete is made of Cement, Water & Aggregate
• Concrete can be a significant contributor of CO₂

- Traditional Concrete: 537 lb CO₂/yd³
- Calera Concrete: -1,146 CO₂/yd³

Willies and hoohoos

Abandonaded city

In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself—the unfinished extension of a place called California City. Visible from above now are a series of badly paved streets carved into the dust and gravel. The uninhabited street plan has become an abstract geoglyph—unintentional land art visible from airplanes—not a thriving community at all

wine over tablecloth

norwegian designer kristine bjaadal exhibited 'underfull', a tablecloth design. at first glance, the tablecloth appears to be a traditional white floral damask but reveals a hidden pattern when wet.

Maunsell Towers

Maunsell Sea Forts, iconic architectural structures in the Thames Estuary, were constructed in 1942 to a design by Guy Maunsell.

Decorating nature

norm magnusson is based in a rural town near woodstock, new york and uses his surrounding environment as the theme and canvas for is work

Opening walls

Nendo’s new interior design project in Tokyo
“MD.net Clinic AKASAKA”, a new mental health clinic

Winter Olympic Games without snow

Today is opening day of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. But the warm weather and rain of late at one of the venues has forced the organizers to haul in snow via truck and helicopter (because the Winter Olympics don’t really work without snow). Since trucks and helicopters emit a lot of carbon, critics and protesters are calling out the Vancouver Olympics for their somewhat hypocritical measures to save the 17 day event from total meltdown.

AC/DC gig at Falluja

"I looked back over my shoulder to where we had come from, into the vacant field at Falluja's northern edge. A group of marines were standing at the foot of a gigantic loudspeaker, the kind used at rock concerts.It was AC/DC, the Australian heavy metal band, pouring out its unbridled sounds. I recognized the song immediately: "Hells Bells," the band's celebration of satanic power, had come to us on the battlefield"

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

A tool helps immigrants find water

Ricardo Dominguez, who for decades has combined art and electronic civil disobedience to create projects including “virtual sit-ins,” hopes his next project won’t just cause a stir. Dominguez wants hisTransborder Immigrant Tool to save lives.

Walking over Amasterdam

international carpet manufacturer desso, has designed a floor covering for dutch hotel citizenM in central Amsterdam

Cardboard models

naomi white at stills gallery, paddington, new south wales, australia february 10 - march 06, 2010

Who wants to live in a desert?

Project Name: Rosa Muerta
Architect: Robert Stone
Location: Joshua Tree, California- open desert site
Completed: January, 2009
Living area: 1300 sqf / 124 sqm
Site area: 2.5 acres / 12,000 sqm

Program: Vacation house – open to the elements: uses shading, thermal mass, solar absorbtion, and breeze flow for temperature regulation.

the Sustainable Dance Club is turning dance steps into energy, French inventor Lucien Gambarota and Wharton grad and entrepreneur Doug Woodring are bringing clean, sustainable energy to the gym using good old-fashioned manpower. The two have joined forces with Hong Kong’s California Fitness, a subsidiary of 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide, to launch a revolutionary concept in which energy burned off by exercisers is diverted and converted to power lighting fixtures, while excess energy is stored in a battery.

Power With Your Running Pants

Designed by Inesa Malafej and Arunas Sukarevicius from Lithuania, the Dancepants converts kinetic energy from running or dancing into electricity for your MP3 player.

Bodywork as a battery

Project co-ordinator, Dr Emile Greenhalgh, from the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London

Children have to play!

'swirl' is a ball containing a swirled sphere shaped basket and lid, connected to a steel tube handle. designed by designaffairs studio

Soccket

sOccket is a fun, portable energy-harvesting power source in the

form of a soccer ball.

Mockumentary

If only it were true. But the day will come, my t-shirt will read, when all the trees around us are computers.

Wood columns

restoration and conversion of the nørre vosborg manor, denmark, of which erik einar holm was responsible, arkitema architects was asked to design a new hotel wing for the building.

Another project for new Berlin

the 'unity and freedom memorial' project by rafaa architecture & design is a key reminder
of the historic uprising against the totalitarian regime of the socialist unity party
of germany (SED) in 1989.

Island of Museums-Berlin, between the cathedral and the rebuild royal palace...too much money!

Detached houses in Netherlands

I would like to build this kind of project some day...Client: Municipality of Leiden
Program: 48 single-family houses
Location: Roomburg, Leiden, the Netherlands
Architect: Leen Borst, Mark Snitker
Contractor: Du Prie Bouw en Ontwikkeling
Structural engineer: Pieters bouwtechniek Haarlem
Start commission: 2005
Year of construction 2007-2009

Re Moebius

joakim dahlqvist: podalida

Huge model

the terrain of a region in china known as china's 'area 51' was discovered in 2006 thanks to satellite images of google earth. this area appears to be an exact replica in scale 1/500, of the 157 500 km2 of the chinese province aksai chin, which borders on india and pakistan. the area is important for chinese because it connects tibet with a road that the
chinese built in 1962. experts say that this model could've been built for military purposes.

Walking houses

homeway is a conceptual architectural project from the architects of "terreform 1" led by dr. mitchell joachim.