Gigatronik Golf Cart is a design study for the future of neighborhood electric vehicles (NEV). This fully electric golf cart is designed to expand the use from golf courts to the streets. The urban rover’s aim is to create and develop a by-wire vehicle with environment detection and driver assistance systems. This includes high-performance radar sensors, parking assistance and an emergency brake assist. In short, it’s sure to be the envy of every neighbor!
We don’t often imagine disposable cutlery as being the easiest on the eyes, but Uria Graiver’s Knife & Fork will bring style and convenience to your next picnic. Flat-pack-ready, the set comes attached so the user can easily snap off the desired number of utensils. This makes it super-easy to store and keep organized rather than go fishing the next time you need a fork or knife!
L’artiste Andrew Myers explore le sens du toucher à travers ses portraits faits à partir de milliers de vis assemblées. Pour faire apparaitre un visage, il peint les vis à la manière d’une toile. L’expérience tactile est très importante pour lui, la contemplation de ses oeuvres doit aller au-delà de la vue. Grâce au relief et la texture différente de chaque vis, les aveugles peuvent deviner ce que les autres voient, comme s’il s’agissait du braille.
La Chine centrale est le pays d’origine des pandas, qui presque considérés comme un emblème national. Le Panda Inn est le premier hôtel à être aménagé et décoré à l’effigie de ces mammifères noirs et blancs. Le personnel, déguisé en panda, est prêt à accueillir les visiteurs et à leur donner possession de leur chambre parmi les 32 que propose l’enseigne.
The three parallel boxes that form this house in Tel Aviv all culminate in a full-height glazed wall facing the garden, while large square apertures puncture the various side walls (+ slideshow).
The T/A House in located in a private residential neighbourhood to the north of the Israeli city.
It was designed by local firm Paritzki & Liani Architects for a family of four who wanted a home centred around a private art collection.
The building’s three volumes are offset from one another to create three rows of rooms with similar proportions. Together, they dictate a pathway through the house.
This arrangement is based on ideas borrowed from vernacular architecture, including traditional buildings in the nearby port of Jaffa featuring connected spaces that facilitate social interaction.
“We asked ourselves, how can we translate the local codes of architecture, and specifically the flow and the spaces of the Ottoman houses, in a simple piece freed from architecture?”
Four long walls create the building’s three spans, which follow the terrain of the narrow site. Their respective heights of 2.8 metres, 3.4 metres and 5 metres produce different spatial experiences inside.
The huge openings at the ends of each white-walled box incorporate sliding doors that offer a seamless transition to the garden, while the solid side elevations are punctured by square openings that sit low to the floor.
“The long interconnected parallel volumes extend the condition of the long and narrow plot,” the architects explained. “We wanted each volume – private, semi-private, public – to have a different piece and view of the garden.”
A path formed from large irregular slabs leads across a garden at the front of the property to a recessed entrance in the central volume that protects the interior from unwanted views.
The entrance opens onto a gallery space with a view along the full length of the building towards the lounge, where full-height sliding doors lead directly to the rear garden. The gallery contains the family’s art collection and functions as an intersection between the different volumes.
On one side of the gallery is a small courtyard flanked by bedrooms. A library located off the main living area leads to the master bedroom suite.
On the opposite side of the gallery is another opening to the kitchen and dining space, which connects with a large covered patio where meals can be taken outdoors.
A staircase ascends from the gallery to a writing den. This leads to a roof terrace lined with glazing, allowing residents to look down on the living areas below.
Brazilian firm Vitrô Arquitetura has renovated a 1960s apartment in São Paulo, revealing structural concrete pillars and brickwork walls (+ slideshow).
Aiming to create better circulation in the home, named Pompeia apartment, the architects decided to modify the original floor plan – which created a largely segregated space with lots of separate rooms.
“We wanted to make the apartment suitable for nowadays,” said Vitrô architect Nathália Favaro. “We applied a continuous circulation that directly connects social, intimate and service areas.”
The studio began by demolishing the walls separating the entrance, living room and kitchen area to open the space up and create a single large room.
“The kitchen was dark because of the main wall that used to divide it from the living room,” Favaro told Dezeen. “Throughout the day, the sun that comes in from the windows in the living room couldn’t pass.”
Two existing bathrooms were redesigned to better suit the client’s needs, while a third room was transformed into a closet for the master bedroom that is situated to the left of an office space.
Red-toned brickwork and concrete pillars uncovered during the renovation process were left exposed. This gives the home a slightly unfinished look – an effect also recently created at a converted Antwerp warehouse and a Japanese gallery.
“The idea of making them a feature came immediately,” Favaro said. “They guided our choice of other finishes around the apartment.”
In the bathroom, a concrete slab forms a long sink and shelving system, while hexagonal yellow tiles from the existing design remain in place across the floor. Matt-finished cupboard fronts in monochrome colours contrast with a brick wall in the kitchen.
Original wooden flooring has been replaced by granilite – a smooth-surfaced material made up of cement mortar mixed with water, powdered marble and stones, which is often used as a cheaper alternative to granite.
“In the past, granilite was widely used in staircases, kitchens and bathrooms, or in the hall of middle-class buildings in the 1940s,” said Favaro. “It made history in Brazilian architecture.”
Colourful rugs and furniture, including Ron Arad‘s ripple chair for Moroso, are teamed with plants and flowers to create an informal atmosphere.
Brazilian architect Alan Chu also recently completed the renovation of a São Paulo apartment – using ceramic ventilation bricks to form partitions and furniture.
Doctor Who Weeping Angel String Lights from thinkgeek. This string of lights has off white weeping angles with two styles. One has its face covered with its hands. The other has arms up looking to eat you when you blink. A single string will set you back $24.99 at thinkgeek.(Read…)
Clandestine street artist Banksy opens a theme park like no other. Inside a derelict lido in Weston-super-Mare, Dismaland features migrant boats, a dead princess and Banksy’s trademark dark humour.(Read…)
Christian Carollo, à travers son Past Present Project, retrace la vie de ses grands-parents à travers des photographies. Il place les anciens clichés dans leur lieu d’origine mais à l’époque actuelle. Une manière originale de montrer leur évolution, parfois minime, tout en rendant un hommage certain.
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