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The AIA San Francisco announced their 2011 design awardees recently, and the interior architecture recipient — a medical marijuana dispensary designed by Sand Studios — caught our eye. SFist calls it the “Apple store of pot.” If you ask us, it’s got the cozy charm of an Anthropologie, if anything. Crunchier. Click through to see how the other half (that is, the half whose citizens requiring medical marijuana can safely acquire it) lives. Sand Studios , a San Francisco-based office headed up by principle Larissa Sand, designed the project for the non-profit SPARC.
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From the darkest depths of the design mind of the one called Slavche Tanevski comes THIS! The Lamborghini *Ankonian. It’s black. It’s sharp. It’s just fabulous. It’s named after a bull famous for its black hair, which follows the Feruccio Lamborghini (creator of the auto brand) tradition of naming cars after bulls.
Lamborghini Madura by Slavche Tanevski » Yanko Design
TetraBox Light by Ed Chew » Yanko Design
Designer Ed Chew takes a green step in the right direction with the TetraBox lamp, a light object made from discarded drink packets that would have otherwise ended up in landfills already packed to the brim. The design is achieved by unfolding the packets and refolding them into hexagonal and pentagonal sections that are then pieced together to form a geodesic sphere or any other desired shape. Here, the Epcot-like ball makes an attractive overhead light and casts an impressive web of shadows and shapes on the surrounding space.
One man, 100,000 toothpicks, and 35 years: An incredible kinetic sculpture of San Francisco | Colossal
Thirty five years ago I had yet to be born, but artist Scott Weaver had already begun work on this insanely complex kinetic sculpture, Rolling through the Bay , that he continues to modify and expand even today. The elaborate sculpture is comprised of multiple “tours” that move pingpong balls through neighborhoods, historical locations, and iconic symbols of San Francisco, all recreated with a little glue, some toothpicks, and an incredible amount of ingenuity. He admits in the video that there are several toothpick sculptures even larger than his, but none has the unique kinetic components he’s constructed.