23 September 2008

david fisher's dynamic tower, the spinning skyscraper

Ever since Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire which only looks like it's in a spinning motion... somebody was bound to come up with a building that actually fulfilled that promise... David Fisher's Dynamic Tower does that more, managing to be green as well...

have a look at a video of it here...

14 September 2008

magnetic curtains

Plain old fabric curtains are so passé... checkout the Magnetic Curtain by Florian Kräeutli... these would look perfect in a Zaha Hadid designed space...

fungus chair

Half public sculpture, half public art...

The Fungus Chair by MAD (out of Beijing) occupies a place between. The chair represents a basic organic form that can be repeated endlessly, creating infinite combinations. Together, these chairs will scatter across urban public space like mushrooms made of modern materials.

transparent concrete

Transparent Concrete?... hell yes... from translucent blocks and photo-engraved building fronts to revolutionary materials that promise to change the rules of construction as we know them today. We all know that concrete can be concocted to look like many things, but who would have thought that the rock-solid substance could be a substitute for a window?

via Protein