I'm not sure what exactly The Green Eyl do (it's somewhere between interactive media and installation art), I just know its awesome. I think their projects A la carte and The whispering table will be of particular interest to April and Tom. The two projects deal with the sharing of stories and cultures through the medium of food. The ideas are just beautiful and the videos on their site is well worth watching.
August 3, 2010
July 19, 2010
Les Bains Vieux - Montreal (new to scandinave spa line up)
For Susanna.....
Les Bains Vieux - Montreal
(found on cool hunter website...)
July 13, 2010
Taiwan's Bioshell Centre for disease control
For Jai.....might be of some use.... 
"Inspired by the elegant form of the Nautilus Shell, the Taiwan Center for Disease Control’s BioLab conceals a dangerous riddle within its outer skin. Usually only visible to the naked eye, the structure of the outer skin is laced with geometric patterns that represent the four symbols of the DNA sequence of the dangerous bacteria being studied within. If you’re not in awe of the structure itself, you may catch on to the message that Taiwan is trying to deliver: “Epidemic prevention is a war that we intend to win”. The twin nautilus shell structures are surrounded by a rolling green-roofed complex that provides insulation while blending the project in with its surrounding environment."
"Inspired by the elegant form of the Nautilus Shell, the Taiwan Center for Disease Control’s BioLab conceals a dangerous riddle within its outer skin. Usually only visible to the naked eye, the structure of the outer skin is laced with geometric patterns that represent the four symbols of the DNA sequence of the dangerous bacteria being studied within. If you’re not in awe of the structure itself, you may catch on to the message that Taiwan is trying to deliver: “Epidemic prevention is a war that we intend to win”. The twin nautilus shell structures are surrounded by a rolling green-roofed complex that provides insulation while blending the project in with its surrounding environment."
July 6, 2010
Korkeasaari Zoo
For Vicki..
Korkeasaari Zoo
Modern Architecture & Design news: "French architects Beckmann-N’Thépé and landscape designers TN+ have won a competition to remodel Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki, Finland. The proposal involves creating a large glass-domed entrance and animal viewing building on the island zoo, and bringing back polar bears after a 30-year absence. The architectural interventions of the zoological island of Korkeasaari will be concentrated to make it wild and mysterious once more – a park / garden as a place of popular privilege, the nobility of the future city."
Korkeasaari Zoo
Modern Architecture & Design news: "French architects Beckmann-N’Thépé and landscape designers TN+ have won a competition to remodel Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki, Finland. The proposal involves creating a large glass-domed entrance and animal viewing building on the island zoo, and bringing back polar bears after a 30-year absence. The architectural interventions of the zoological island of Korkeasaari will be concentrated to make it wild and mysterious once more – a park / garden as a place of popular privilege, the nobility of the future city."
June 29, 2010
rip off wall with lights......
In reference to the idea of people taking something off the wall............
Light Form: Gorgeous Wood Wall Panels Flip Up to Reveal Light Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World: "Even the most basic origami figures prove that a few simple folds can result in an intricate and captivating sculptural design. Expanding upon the concept behind this Japanese art, designers Francesca Rogers and Daniele Gualeni Design Studio have created “Light Form” – a beautiful modular lighting system consisting of wood panels that can be flipped back to expose energy-efficient electroluminescent lights. The system can be easily affixed to any wall, creating a luminous mosaic that balances modern design with with a grand nod to traditional Japanese art.
A structure of warm and soft light enclosed within dual-toned wood, Light Form allows the user to create a desired lighting pattern by manipulating folding tiles embedded in each modular panel. Encased in rich dark European maple, each module either holds either a light made of electroluminescent film or a bare white surface that increases available light through reflection.
Light-Form has been designed for ILIDE – Italian Light Design and is on display from April 14-19 at the Word Join Center, as part of this year’s Milan Furniture Fair.
+ ILIDE"
Light Form: Gorgeous Wood Wall Panels Flip Up to Reveal Light Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World: "Even the most basic origami figures prove that a few simple folds can result in an intricate and captivating sculptural design. Expanding upon the concept behind this Japanese art, designers Francesca Rogers and Daniele Gualeni Design Studio have created “Light Form” – a beautiful modular lighting system consisting of wood panels that can be flipped back to expose energy-efficient electroluminescent lights. The system can be easily affixed to any wall, creating a luminous mosaic that balances modern design with with a grand nod to traditional Japanese art.
A structure of warm and soft light enclosed within dual-toned wood, Light Form allows the user to create a desired lighting pattern by manipulating folding tiles embedded in each modular panel. Encased in rich dark European maple, each module either holds either a light made of electroluminescent film or a bare white surface that increases available light through reflection.
Light-Form has been designed for ILIDE – Italian Light Design and is on display from April 14-19 at the Word Join Center, as part of this year’s Milan Furniture Fair.
+ ILIDE"
Newsworthy Wall-Covering is Made Entirely of Up-cycled Newspaper | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
Newsworthy Wall-Covering is Made Entirely of Up-cycled Newspaper Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World: "Textile and product designer Lori Weitzner makes breaking news with this textural wall-covering made up of 100% up-cycled newspapers. Cleverly titled “Newsworthy“, the design is created by taking strips of recycled newspapers and weaving them together by hand. Once the covering is hung, the walls come to life with subtle yet eye-catching headlines that one can actually still read.
Weitzner’s Newsworthy textile is made through a technique similar to the one used to make wall-coverings from grass cloth. An interactive quality emerges when replacing grass cloth with the newsprint. To ensure good quality and durability, Newsworthy’s paper strips are woven with nylon thread and finished with a water-based topcoat that protects against yellowing and staining. Newsworthy measures 47 inches wide and runs $125 a yard (to the trade).
All of Lori Weitzner’s 2010 wall-covering collection is focused on a sustainable future. This year’s product line centers around green production principles, and each covering is made of natural fibers such as banana leaves and paper pulp.
+ Lori Weitzner Designs Inc."
Weitzner’s Newsworthy textile is made through a technique similar to the one used to make wall-coverings from grass cloth. An interactive quality emerges when replacing grass cloth with the newsprint. To ensure good quality and durability, Newsworthy’s paper strips are woven with nylon thread and finished with a water-based topcoat that protects against yellowing and staining. Newsworthy measures 47 inches wide and runs $125 a yard (to the trade).
All of Lori Weitzner’s 2010 wall-covering collection is focused on a sustainable future. This year’s product line centers around green production principles, and each covering is made of natural fibers such as banana leaves and paper pulp.
+ Lori Weitzner Designs Inc."
Prefab Bar Made From Tubs
Prefab Bar Made From Tubs Lights Up the Night Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World: "Spotted on Arch Daily, this temporary bar was the winning design for the annual Oporto School of Architecture’s bar design competition in Portugal. Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto came up with the surprisingly simple but effective idea of building the walls with Ikea tubs and lighting them up with LED lights. The effect is great signage, fun design, and a building you can simply take apart and reuse for more domestic fare. 
So before the party crashers holler that this isn’t green let us point a couple of things out. The tubs are a simple, low waste polypropylene plastic (#5) that is particularly easy to recycle. Ikea does not specify how much recycled material is in the manufacture of the tub but there is real cradle-to-cradle potential with this low-toxic material.
For a light weight, high-profile, and lively looking bar this is good prefab design. The Architects website explains “A huge LED net was fixed behind the boxes, allowing the bar to dramatically change its appearance: by day a white abstract and closed volume; and by night a box of changing light following the DJ set.” The students were able to produce it from scratch in less than a week and most of the materials are reusable afterwards. I’ll drink to that.
+ Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto"
So before the party crashers holler that this isn’t green let us point a couple of things out. The tubs are a simple, low waste polypropylene plastic (#5) that is particularly easy to recycle. Ikea does not specify how much recycled material is in the manufacture of the tub but there is real cradle-to-cradle potential with this low-toxic material.
For a light weight, high-profile, and lively looking bar this is good prefab design. The Architects website explains “A huge LED net was fixed behind the boxes, allowing the bar to dramatically change its appearance: by day a white abstract and closed volume; and by night a box of changing light following the DJ set.” The students were able to produce it from scratch in less than a week and most of the materials are reusable afterwards. I’ll drink to that.+ Diogo Aguiar & Teresa Otto"
Human-Powered ‘Rolling Home’ Rotates as You Run Around « Dornob
Human-Powered ‘Rolling Home’ Rotates as You Run Around « Dornob: "Roll It is more than just a toy, though: it represents surprisingly subtle and complex approach to modular housing design, complete with its own ‘exercise room’ of sorts. By walking in the middle, a resident can rotate various ‘rooms’ into usable positions. Tables become chairs, chairs become beds, beds become walls and walls become desks, all depending upon the configuration, which is in turned all controlled by the user. 
The hidden structure consists of a series of solid rings that provide circular support and the basis for a set of curved wooden interior and exterior shells. The inside is divided into three conceptual sections. The first third is a living room, bedroom and office space for sitting, sleeping and working; the last third is a kitchen and eating area (complete with a sink and seating but not much else for cooking); the space in between is sunk down and out – the area for walking the house into motion.
Ample circular side windows and slotted skylights (or are they floor lights?) along the center ‘treadmill’ allow in natural light and create controlled views, though some curtains would be a nice touch for those of us who like periodic privacy. Aside from these clear plastic openings and a few cushioned areas, the rest of the surfaces are covered in custom-curved plywood which has a nice, warm, natural look to it – though the outside could stand some more design work."
June 28, 2010
Felt walls
Fashioning-Felt at Cooper-Hewitt yatzer Design Architecture Art Fashion +more: "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum To Present “Fashioning Felt”
On view March 6–September 7, 2009
On view March 6–September 7, 2009
This exhibition will explore the varied new uses of felt—an ancient material, believed to be one of the earliest techniques for making textiles. Made by matting together wool fibers with humidity and friction, felting requires little technological expertise and is an extremely versatile material. The exhibition will begin with historic examples of felts, showcase innovations in handmade felts, and feature contemporary uses of industrial felt in a range of fields, including product design, fashion, architecture, and home furnishings. The exhibition is being organized by Susan Brown, assistant curator, Textiles.
Wosk Theater, Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, CA, 2007–08. Architect: Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design, Mehrdad Yazdani, Design Principal; Paul Gonzales, Project Manager; Jessica Yi, Project Architect; Hansol Park, AIA, Senior Designer; Jeremy Whitener, Project Designer. Felt walls designed and fabricated by Kathryn Walter of FELT Studio. Industrial felts (wool and recycled fibers).
Photo: Anne Garrison of Hewitt Garrison Photography"
recycled cardboard museum design
Incredible Recycled Cardboard Interior Design of Smithfield Shop by Burnt Toast
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Peter Masters from Burnt Toast’s company was recently completed an eclectic and 100% recycled interior design for the British menswear label Smithfield shop in Manchester.
The Sustainable material as elements of digital-age styling created by recycling a mailing tubes and shipping boxes into incredible wall coverings, light fixtures, hanging sculptures, and clothing displays.
The design concept behind Brunt Toast’s interior is that the cardboard components can be reused in a variety of configurations without added materials or cost. Although the corrugated interior is intentionally minimal, but there was considerable planning behind these well chosen forms.
All the cardboard components are made from 100% recycled materials and are sourced from Romiley Board Mill. All of the wood used in the construction came from MRC, a Manchester wood recycling company.
Smithfeild’s store blog states that “the focus behind the shop, both interior and contents, is that to stand out from the crowd it shouldn’t cost the earth.”, I think everyone will agree with that and start to go earth-friendly in every way, Let’s go green dude…!
Tubular Recycled Cardboard Wall Covering Design
Brunt Toasts Interior Recycled Cardboard Design
Superuse.org: Where recycling meets design
Superuse.org: Where recycling meets design: "Pallet Tower, Burning Man 09
K9Collective posted 280 days ago
A monumental artifact designed to be an outpost and beacon. Made primarily from abandoned wooden shipping pallets, the structure takes commonly utilized items and reinterprets their structural nature to form a vertical habitat. A system of staggered tension rods compress the pallet sections to withstand vertical and lateral loads.
The tower is the work of architects Sergio Ramirez, Timothy Leung, and Brandin Roat.
Babel Tower 2009
Superused: Shipping pallets, reclaimed building materials.
San Francisco, CA"
K9Collective posted 280 days ago
A monumental artifact designed to be an outpost and beacon. Made primarily from abandoned wooden shipping pallets, the structure takes commonly utilized items and reinterprets their structural nature to form a vertical habitat. A system of staggered tension rods compress the pallet sections to withstand vertical and lateral loads.
The tower is the work of architects Sergio Ramirez, Timothy Leung, and Brandin Roat.
Babel Tower 2009
Superused: Shipping pallets, reclaimed building materials.
San Francisco, CA"
Superuse.org: Where recycling meets design
Superuse.org: Where recycling meets design: "The mobile Peopleskitchen makes it possible to cook and eat in inaccessible locations-at first sight-to the public. The Peopleskitchen exist from a system of wooden auctioncrates, beams and canvas. It is put together with shelfs, belts and wedges. The auctioncrates serve aswell as storage of the cook- and food material. People that pass by and invitees are invited to cook and consume a meal together. Thus there a temporary meetingplace in uninhabited urban locations arises such as construction locations, construction wells or empty buildings. The intention is to make contrast tangible between the harsh character of the location and it social of together dining. Differently said, inaccessible places become shortly a public meeting space.
www.elmovermijs.com"
www.elmovermijs.com"
Art of Scale: Full-Size Designs of Small-Space Structures « Dornob
Art of Scale: 7 Full-Size Designs of Small-Space Structures « Dornob: "1:1 is a museum art installation series aimed at full-scale building experience of traversable spaces that still have the experimental and conceptual properties of miniature models. 
Instead of staring at small model-sized pieces behind glass – accompanied by detailed drawings at a likewise smaller scale – visitors are encouraged to walk through, touch and otherwise interact with each work. Videos placed by each installation tell the story of their design and construction process as well.
Of nineteen architects invited to submit proposals, seven of these strange and unique mini-habitats were built for this exhibit – some set between staircases or in multi-floor interior spaces, while others that could weather were placed in outdoor courtyard and entry areas. (Images via V&A + Dezeen)."
Instead of staring at small model-sized pieces behind glass – accompanied by detailed drawings at a likewise smaller scale – visitors are encouraged to walk through, touch and otherwise interact with each work. Videos placed by each installation tell the story of their design and construction process as well.
Of nineteen architects invited to submit proposals, seven of these strange and unique mini-habitats were built for this exhibit – some set between staircases or in multi-floor interior spaces, while others that could weather were placed in outdoor courtyard and entry areas. (Images via V&A + Dezeen)."
June 23, 2010
TPAC - taipei performing art center by NL architectsimage courtesy NL architectsNL architects have designed the taipei performing arts center aiming to make the building accessible to everybody. the public character of the center is guaranteed by the elevation of a substantial part of its program, creating a public square underneathit. as such the square becomes part of the building inside of it.the design which could be considered to a table with 'four legs' supports a 'tabletop' that accommodates 3 storeys. inside you'll find an elevated fragment of the city, a public browsing space where cultural facilities such as a multimedia library, music stores, galleries, lobbies, bars, restaurants and clubs will be included.balconies and terraces with different programs will also be included in the space consisting of swimming pools, a skate area, playground, hotel garden and cafe.the performing arts center structure will contain three theaters: a 1500 seat grand theater and two 800 seat theaters for repertory performances. the theaters are positioned on different altitudes. the proscenium playhouse is placed at the base of the southeast 'leg'. the lobby is placed under this theater so that it is flush with the square activating the space around it. the multiform theater is connected to the southwest leg close to the top. the volume of the grand theater is suspended under the horizontal slab. it hovers over the square while being part of it. TPAC - taipei performing art center image courtesy NL architectsview of TPAC
June 16, 2010
Drawer Deck Design: Convertible Interior & Exterior Space « Dornob
Drawer Deck Design: Convertible Interior & Exterior Space « Dornob: "What a simple yet strange design idea: an interior living room area that slides out like a drawer to become a cantilevered exterior balcony space overlooking an historic square in Germany.
The rest of the interior space is equally compelling, filled with wall niches that let in light and serve as shelving units to store odds and ends collected by the owners, a (post)modern white space with offbeat wood, stone and other more colorful accents and decor.
While this is certainly an extreme design idea, the architects nonetheless did keep the context in mind. The windows, while more frequent and regularly spaced than those of the surrounding buildings, are contextual in their size and proportions. The roof line has a familiar angle that also allows this offbeat home to blend in with its surrounding architectural context."
The rest of the interior space is equally compelling, filled with wall niches that let in light and serve as shelving units to store odds and ends collected by the owners, a (post)modern white space with offbeat wood, stone and other more colorful accents and decor.
While this is certainly an extreme design idea, the architects nonetheless did keep the context in mind. The windows, while more frequent and regularly spaced than those of the surrounding buildings, are contextual in their size and proportions. The roof line has a familiar angle that also allows this offbeat home to blend in with its surrounding architectural context."
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