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True to its promise Rem Koolhaas’ Prada Transformer has indeed transformed, for the first time, from an exhibition space into a cinema. After launching at the end of April with Miuccia’s Waist Down exhibition of skirts from across the globe, the incredible structure, sat next to the Gyeonghui Palace in Seoul, rotated from its hexagonal floorplan to the second stage – a rectangle.
Via Designboom
Great idea for kids play houses. Comes as a flat pack and the children get to assemble (with adult supervision) and then colour in themselves.
Sydney-based Shane Crozier’s been getting some blog love with his Cycle Wip, as seen above on designcrave.
If you get vertigo than it’s probably best not to go the new Glass viewing balconies at the Sears Tower. The floor is 1.5″ thick and has a breaking point of 5 tons. It’s a long way down.
“It’s not exactly Man vs. Wild. UK communications company Orange has partnered with US design consultancy Kaleidoscope on the Glastonbury Solar Concept Tent, which uses photovoltaic fabric to capture the sun’s energy. The tent then turns that juice into heating for the tent-floor, as well as powering cell phone chargers, an LCD control panel and, um, wireless internet.”
“Each day we are required to maneuver a heavy object through complex traffic and pedestrians, all the while trying to obey hundreds of obscure traffic laws in constant fear of sudden brake lights ahead, of making a wrong turn, of unpredictable drivers and police.”
What if we redesigned the car, focusing on todays needs rather than just styling and performance? What if we thought of cars more as architecture than vehicle. How might that turn out?
“The initial[1] idea was thought provoking: construct a covering using 400 red umbrellas (outside of their intended purpose) suspended over the new pedestrian mall in the city of Talca to create a visual impression of the inhabitants of a city in which it is uncommon to see daring displays in public spaces.”
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