Folding Lamps
Architects have a long history designing great lighting. Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture out of Sweden picks up this line by giving us the Paperfold lamp series….
File Under Robot Infrastructure
In Leeuwarden, Netherlands they enjoy the comforts of a robotic overlord controlling a road bridge. It looks less like a bridge than a giant transformer…
Space Frames and Rapid Forms
Lilah Fowler’s new show at Brown Gallery in London continues a line of exploration that has preoccupied artists in the second half of the 20th…
Kengo Kuma Houses for Muji
Kengo Kuma has designed two prefabricated houses for Muji They are small, simple, beautiful, can come in many variations, are made of standardized kits of parts, and…
Making Something Out of Nothing
In our cult of the new and the shiny, it’s sometimes refreshing to remember that it’s possible to make new things out of old things…
Rundle Lantern
The Rundle Lantern is a parking garage in Adelaide, Australia, composed of a big corner-wrapping screen. Each of the 748 “pixels ” has two LED lights behind it,…
Bubbling Up in Dubai
The architecture duo Reiser + Umemoto are starting to get real with their O-14 office building , rising over Dubai. The building is has a perforated structural exoskeleton that doubles as…
The Pop-Up City
Golfstromen is an Amsterdam-based studio whose focus is conceptual interventions in the city. Their work is so casual, and so temporary, it’s almost not there. The littlest…
Steel in the Desert
Continuing our meme of unconventional homes, we direct your attention to Blank Studio’s Xeros Residence. Completed in 2005, this house uses its location in Phoenix, Arizona,…
Stacking Awesomeness
Miso Soup Design are designers of some sort. There is a lot of architectural speculation on their site which we chose to skip over. However of…
Specific Materiality
Blurring the line between sculpture, furniture, and millwork is one of our favorite topics. These days the categories are not as easily definable as they…
Miami Dade College is a Super Building
Located at Biscayne Boulevard and NE 5th Street in downtown Miami, the Campus Center for Miami Dade college looks like something out of OMA’s handbag….
Suspended Over Water
Do you want to take the ultimate lunch break? Forget the Gehry’s tad-overdone (sorry) Conde Nast cafeteria in New York City; head to Bangkok to the Octospider….
Zaha Hadid’s Swirly Furniture (Again)
Another week, another exhibition featuring Zaha Hadid’s swirly, blobby, and cool lacquered-fiberglass furniture . But this latest round, a show sponsored by Rove TV has…
Piece of NYC on Your Bookshelf
Magnum Photos is issuing a new edition of its book New York. This book is giant, at 20X14 inches, and comes with its own little…
Miesian Rocking
Over the years we have been fascinated by the alternate takes on Mies Van der Rohe’s Barcelona Chair. It never gets old, although it’s sometimes…