SunnyHills Japan / Kengo Kuma and Associates
This shop, specialized in selling pineapple cake (popular sweet in Taiwan), is in the shape of a bamboo basket. It is built on a joint system called “Jiigoku-Gumi,” traditional method used in Japanese wooden architecture (often observed in Shoji: vertical and cross pieces in the same width are entwined in each other to form a […]
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Lotus C-01 / Daniel Simon
We have worked hard to create a motorcycle with very distinctive features such as a clean main body, an extremely low side profile, a bold stance, a unique air intake, logical partline solutions and clean graphics. via The Verge. Renowned British sportscar manufacture, Lotus will produce its very first motocycle. The C-01 will feature a carbon fiber and […]
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Facial Landscapes / Juan Sánchez Castillo
Using miniature figures and makeup, murcia-based photographer Juan Sánchez Castillo creates small landscapes and scenes directly onto the face of a model. ‘making it up’ comprises a series of photos which animate tiny workers and children interacting with the female’s facial features. in one example, white powder transforms the model’s face into a snowy panorama, […]
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Kesh Angels / Hassan Hajjaj
Kesh Angels is a stunning series exposing the motorbike girl gangs of Morocco. The photos were captured by British-Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj. Kesh Angels is currently on view at the Taymour Grahne gallery in New York City. –@ybaynes
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Matador / Stellarjockeys
If you grew up playing video games in the early nineties, I am certain you have an affinity for shoot ’em up action games such as Contra and X-COM. Matador is a throwback to this classic genre. The game promises chaotic gameplay with no saves, which adds to the endurance factor which is missing from […]
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Chair Wear / Bernotat and Co
Chair Wear started as a mildly ironic joke, and ended up in a very inspiring new way of looking at furniture upholstery, of seeing it as a separate item, leading to new constructions, productions techniques and materials. With a real collection as a result. The idea of dressing up chairs evolved while working on the […]
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Big Five / Robert Chew
He’s imagined each animal – the rhino, cape buffalo, elephant, lion and leopard – and turned them into anti-poacher drones. Badass robotic anti-poacher drones, which stalk the savannah, armed to the teeth – and then some – with advanced weaponry via Kotaku Have a look at the stunning Big Five series by conceptual artist, Robert […]
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King Fahad National Library / Gerber Architekten
Saudi Arabia’s ‘King Fahad national library’ has re-opened its doors to the public, ten years after German practicegerber Architekten won an international competition to complete the project. the design involves the refurbishment and extension of the existing building – one of the most significant cultural centers in the region. situated in riyadh, the country’s capital, the scheme […]
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911 Targa / Porsche
Porsche has built the most beautiful 911 Targa in a generation, a gorgeous throwback to the 1967 original that opens and closes in a mesmerizing mechanical ballet that took three years to engineer. Frankly, we weren’t expecting much from the Targa. Although the original was a clever sidestep around impending safety regulations, later models were simply […]
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Sweeping Photos / Stephen Wilkes
Stephen Wilkes is the first to admit the huge photos in his Day to Night series take an absurd amount of time and effort to produce. And he knows you might wonder why he’d spend 15 hours shooting an image and weeks editing it. But in an era when anyone with a phone can snap a pic and […]
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Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop / Keiichi Matsuda
The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it. A film produced for my final year […]
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Dystopian Landscapes / Simon Stalenhag
Simon Stalenhag creates surreal imagery of a dystopian Swedish countryside. The images shown here exist in the late 80’s where robots and hovercrafts are the norm while a few mutant dinosaurs are on the loose. Simon Stalenhag is also the second half of Pixeltruss, which recently released the 16-bit platform game, Ripple Dot Zero. You […]
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