How much do I want this right now? Oh design/architecture/home/travel magazines, how you make us feel so sad and depressed in our flourescent lit offices listening to nasty car horns. From Dwell.
Design Etc
Event @German Embassy Washington with Atelier Dreiseitl and McDonough/Braungart. So Cool.
Event @German Embassy Washington with Atelier Dreiseitl and McDonough/Braungart. So Cool.
love green building. love landscape architecture. love people that have the courage to say things are “ugly” and we’re doing it “wrong” because we are. love that you can create a green rainwater and swale management program for cheaper than traditional concrete culvert systems. see the “water air conditioning” system in the picture above. what’s NOT to love? you can see these guys in their own words (click title) in a video from the event.
Celestial Solar Sounds
Neat little project by a German outfit…
Why oh why can’t I be this cool? Dream job, dream house. On my own Dutch canal! So cool. Love the wood and crazy wall holder sculptures – click to see more design objects.
Meta Hat
Random interactions of photofunia and tinypic led someone to notify they could purchase this “trucker hat” of me.
amazing.
these were being sold next to the peeps and baby bath at safeway this weekend. i thought it was a baby doll until i saw the HAIR poking out of it’s pants and shirt. wtf? i looked it up and apparently this was a big 80’s japanese import fad. you can watch the creepy original ad here.
Pruned: The Hydrological Schoolyard
(Before. Photo by Kevin Robert Perry.)
(And the marvelous after. Photo by Kevin Robert Perry.)“Here, most of the rainwater falling on the school grounds are captured and allowed to infiltrate the soil rather than piped away on aging sewers.”
What is completely constructed of steel, reinforced with corrugated steel walls, able to withstand winds up to 140 mph, and can make a comfortable living space for the survivors of the Haitian earthquake? A standard shipping container. And researchers at Clemson University are scurrying to figure out how to turn their project, known as SEED, into a way to contribute emergency housing to Haiti right now.
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More treasures from Liz’s package from Thailand – this is sticky notepaper portraying a chick (with pig nose/fangs?) biting a (bear?)’s tail/foot as he peeps in surprise. Good ness gracious I wish my office could buy a dozen of these!