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‘Octopus’ shower caddies by Formverket. Les méduses lumineuses de Roxy Towry-Russell - OrSériE - Le journal du Beau & du Bien-être. Pointer — Nigel Coates. Guillaume Lehoux. Louvre – 24,000 sq m Dome in Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel. Niao bird architecture by Fuquan Junze aka Oil Monkey. Cork Tree House by Ana Correia, Vasco Lopes, Vera Gomes and Bruno Guerreiro For Dideia. Tree House Camping The Tree House (awarded with honorable mention by Susdesign and a subsequent exhibition at Centro Cultural de Belém) is a project created under the premise of innovation and sustainability made entirely of cork.

Cork Tree House by Ana Correia, Vasco Lopes, Vera Gomes and Bruno Guerreiro For Dideia

Cork is rich in thermal insulation characteristics. Personal portfolio of hana krystynova - product and industrial designer. (Image JPEG, 900x637 pixels) Vespertilium clothes pegs. Philippe Starck. Le Centre Pompidou vous propose de nombreuses visites, parcours et ateliers pour découvrir le bâtiment, les collections, les expositions temporaires, la création des 20e et 21e siècles.

Philippe Starck

L'ensemble des visites, générales ou thématiques, offrent la possibilité d'établir des liens avec les programmes scolaires, adaptés à chaque niveau. Parcours, ateliers et événements de la Galerie des enfants permettent aux plus jeunes dès 2 ans, de se familiariser à l'art moderne et contemporain par la manipulation ou l'expérimentation. Le programme d’activités. ! Le Centre Pompidou vous propose de nombreuses visites, parcours et ateliers pour découvrir le bâtiment, les collections, les expositions temporaires, la création des 20e et 21e siècles.

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L'ensemble des visites, générales ou thématiques, offrent la possibilité d'établir des liens avec les programmes scolaires, adaptés à chaque niveau. Parcours, ateliers et événements de la Galerie des enfants permettent aux plus jeunes dès 2 ans, de se familiariser à l'art moderne et contemporain par la manipulation ou l'expérimentation. Le programme d’activités. (Image JPEG, 350x590 pixels) Alissa Coe & Carly Waito.

This intricate and beautiful porcelain jellyfish installation by Coe & Waito are entirely hand sculpted and mostly assembled on site.

Alissa Coe & Carly Waito

Precious. Chiharu Shiota. Theo Jansen. Seeing these sculptures for the first time is pretty mind blowing.

Theo Jansen

Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals and are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. Jansen says, “The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.” WWF Netherlands by RAU. ‘ Completed in October 2006 the headquarters of the Netherlands chapter of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is nothing if not a striking building.

WWF Netherlands by RAU

It also happens to be one of the single most sustainable building created in recent years. The building’s form is quite clearly inspired by organic forms and the desire to reflect the WWF’s work in the natural realm. More than that, though, it seems to draw inspiration from the ideas of anthroposophy – something also seen in the past work of the project’s architects, RAU, notably with the ING Bank offices in Amsterdam which also happens, like the WWF headquarters, to be an autonomous building.’ Henderson Bridge in Singapore. ‘ Henderson Waves, jointly designed by RSP Architects planners and engineers and IJP corporation, is Singapore’s highest pedestrian bridge and was awarded this year’s Design of the year for the President’s Design Award at the Singapore Design Week 09.

Henderson Bridge in Singapore

Standing at 36 meters above the ground, in an iconic, sculptural leap spanning across Singapore’s Henderson road. Based on the principal of parametric design, this new visual symbol has attracted the community to its walkways and shelters. Blob VB3. Belgian architectural firm dmvA designed ‘ Blob VB3 ‘, a mobile unit for the office of Xfactoragencies as an extension to the ‘house’.

Blob VB3

The space – egg house consists of a bathroom, kitchen, lighting, a bed and several niches for storage. The nose can be opened automatically and functions as a kind of porch. It easily transportable and can also be used as an office, guestroom or garden house. Polyester was the primarily material used in construction of the ‘ Blob VB3 ‘. Seed Cathedral. On a 6,000 square meter UK Pavilion site sits the Seed Cathedral carefully centered.

Seed Cathedral

The Seed Cathedral is 20 meters tall and is formed from 60,000 slender transparent fiber optic rods. Each fiber optic rod is 7.5 meters long and encloses one or more seeds at its tip. During the day, they draw daylight inwards to illuminate the interior. At night, light sources inside each rod allowing the entire structure to glow. The Nogg. The Nogg is a modern chicken coop that has been designed in the shape of an egg.

The Nogg

Urban chicken keeping has become a growing trend, and The Nogg is designed to house 2-4 chickens in an aesthetically pleasing coop to compliment any garden. Scratch My Back. Advertising - Sweet Station. Lawrence Kwok Nimbl Wheelchair ‘ People have to do costly home renovations to make a safe and easy passage for the wheelchair users within the home, smacking the budget of the home.

Timothy Horn. Sharky Tea Infuser. Sharky tea infuser is designed by Pablo Matteoda from Argentina. He created this piece for Designboom’s Beyond Silver Contest. Shark Soup. Lise Lefebvre. ” This is a carpet made from a recycled wool blanket. These beautiful traditional woven blankets are getting replaced by less scratchy modern comforters and end up piled up in thrift stores.

Coral Light. Coral is a range of lights with a uniquely shaped modular element which is reminiscent of a branch of coral and is produced in injection moulded polycarbonate. “ We wanted to create a light that was both visibly rich and articulated, starting from a very simple module. The module repeats itself like a fractal (a geometrical shape which is repeated throughout its structure in different sizes) and grows following the principle of nature – from simplicity to complexity ”. Slott – Paris : Préliminaires – aequorea de matali crasset. ”Un hommage à Barbarella la première femme libre de la bande-dessinée imaginée par Jean- Claude Forest. J’aime l’univers de Forest qui est à la fois poétique et sensuel . La Condition Publique / programme. Images Re-vues - Numéro 6 : EDITO , par Pierre-Olivier Dittmar. Gilles Deleuze, le devenir -animal : Belles plumes. Je ne sais pas si j'ai toujours bien compris Deleuze. Sa pensée était tellement foisonnante et nomade que forcément, une grande partie nous passait au dessus de la tête, même en assistant régulièrement et attentivement à son séminaire.

Nils Kreter - multimedia activities. Neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring.