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Cocoon is located on a beautiful hillside, which enjoys excellent lake and mountain views. The location’s distinctive flair stems from the exceptional park-like setting; a green oasis into which Cocoon as a freestanding sculptural volume snugly nestles. The stainless steel mesh enveloping the building combines visual privacy with restrained elegance, while establishing a strong and [...]
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8-bit Wedding Invitation
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Google’s Swiss Headquarters
Google’s philosophy that work and play are not mutually exclusive is definitely shown off in form of game rooms and themed.
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Tags: Architecture, Design, emea, google, switzerland
Klein Bottle House
the klein bottle house by mcbride charles ryan, have won the award for world’s best home
at this year’s world architecture festival awards. located in australia’s mornington peninsula,
the holiday home features a living room perched on a canopy of trees, and celebrates
the country’s traditional beach houses, while still functioning as a practical and useful
home.
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Assuming that we’ll have electrified highways by the year 2030, Nissan has popped up an on-grid vehicle dubbed “V2G” (Vehicle–to-Grid) that will offer safe, sustainable as well as brisk commutation. The compliant vehicle is not only safe and swift, but it also features dynamic styling and quality production at a very low price. One can’t ask [...]
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Asspeaker
The main unit is the subwoofer and the control station. The smaller units are speakers and connect to the controller through bluetooth technology, they work as single cheek units and can be connected to store as one small butt. To activate the unit, one must tap the unit.
Tap the main unit to turn the speakers [...]
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Fireplaces have ruled the roost when it comes to heating solutions to warm up your home. But the Nobo Firepit series electric radiators sees the radiator in entirely different light with captivating designs that are sure to overshadow your designer fireplace and become the focal point of your living space. Much said, the Firepit series [...]
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Tags: Design, firepit, FURNITURE, nobo, radiator
Ceiling-Mounted Bathroom Faucet
Signorini’s ceiling-mounted faucet
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$1200 Titanium-made ID Mouse
Showcased at Dutch Design Week 2009, the “ID Mouse” from the house of Intelligent-design is a Bluetooth mouse for all who demand perfection at their fingertips. Finished in hand-formed grade 1 titanium and high-quality plastic (resin), the wireless mouse integrates a 3-button neodymium scroll wheel for smooth and brisk scrolling on the web. Compatible with [...]
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Tags: Bluetooth mouse, Design, grade 1 titanium, ID Mouse, laser tracking, lifestyle, mouse, neodymium scroll wheel, Technology, Wireless
The Murakami chair’s attached lamp is powered by kinetic energy produced from the chair’s rocking back and forth—deliciously simple and elegant. Oh, and that lampshade? Not a lampshade. That’s the actual OLED light source, shaped like a lampshade.
The OLED lamp even senses when it’s light or dark out, and if it’s light, stores the energy [...]
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Tags: chairs, Design, designboom, kineticenergy, LED, murakami, OLED, rockingchair
San Fransisco designers Studio O+A have completed the headquarters for social networking website Facebook in Palo Alto, California.
Located in a former laboratory constructed in the 1960’s, the building houses over 700 employees.
The designers re-used many of the former lab benches and equipment for the new offices.
The design uses colour-coding to differentiate between teams within the open-plan space.
Some [...]
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Tags: Architecture, FACEBOOK, FACEBOOK HQS, headquarter, o+a, palo alto
Harley Davidson Circa 2020
Somebody pass me a helmut and a time travel ship because if this is what Harley bikes look like in 10 years, I’m so there. Designer Miguel Cotto pays homage to the big road hogs by keeping the large 883cc engine, complete with high revs and roars. The similarities end there. The design is almost [...]
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No fireplace? No problem! The Cupola is a spherical, wall-mounted fireplace that’ll let you slap a hearth on just about any blank vertical surface in your home.
Burning bio-ethanol, the Cupola allows you to have a roaring fire without worrying about vents or chimneys. It’s made of lightweight aluminum, is available in black or white, and [...]
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Tags: Cupola, Fireplace, Fireplaces, FURNITURE, Vauni, Vauni cupola
Drawing inspiration from the On/Off icon of electronic devices, designer Marco Lana has come up with an innovative lamp called “Turn On” that can be switched on and off simply by turning it from left to right and vice versa. Designed as a part of the furniture series “on-off,” the rechargeable lamp can be used [...]
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Tags: Design, indoor, LED light, lifestyle, LIGHTING, opal plexiglass, outdoor, rechargeable, switch
BMW SIMPLE concept
BMW has been rumored as of late to be pursuing everything from a so-called “0 Series” range of cars to a revival of its Isetta microcar brand, but the Bavarian automaker remains essentially mum on plans to diversify into the microcar market. Stoking the fires, however, is the new Simple concept, a leaning trike that [...]
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Tags: bimmer, bmw, BMW CLEVER, BMW Museum, BMW Simple, clever concept, CNG, CNG bike, commuter, commuting, Hybrid, motorcycle, Simple concept, trike
Hermes design luxury £90m yacht
Designed by luxury fashion company Hermes and ship-builder Wally, the $142 million WHY 58×38 is more floating mansion than yacht. Those figures stand for its peculiar 58 by 38 meter dimensions, which is unlike any other vessel in the world. It features solar panels that will save 200 tons of diesel fuel per year, as well [...]
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Tags: Architecture, HERMES, SHIP, SHIPS, WALLY, WHY 58X38, yacht, YACHTS
BMW Lovos concept
Pforzheim University graduate Anne Forschner had a good time coming up with her BMW Lovos concept, which can alternatively look either like a frightened porcupine or svelte salmon, depending on its needs at the time.
The exterior of the Lovos – which somewhat ironically stands for Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity – is theoretically constructed from just [...]
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BMW Designworks created a 7-piece selection of furniture for public transport spaces called “metro 40.”
The seven pieces are broken down into categories: connect, rest, ride, collect, hi glo, lo glo, and show. Together, they cover everything you’d generally need to do at a bus stop: sit down, get under cover, lock up a bike, throw [...]
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Tags: bmw, bmw designworks, bmw designworks usa, Design, designworks usa, FURNITURE, landscape forms, metro 40, Metro40, public transit
Designer: Tai Chiem
Bluetooth integration, plastic/glass backs and middles. LCD screen(s) on both the controller and the system itself.
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Tags: concept, Design, PLAYSTATION, playstation 4, PS3, ps4, sony
“Imagine housing, recreational and cultural facilities connected to a continuous, lushly planted, green strip, floating above the water-an aerial garden, as the city’s newest park through which you could walk and wander and enjoy the most spectacular views of the bay,” reads an excerpt from the proposal by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello.
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Tags: Architecture, BAY AREA, bridges, CONCEPTS, Design, PARKS, San Francisco, SF
Designed by Renzo Piano, Vulcano Buono is an epic cone-shaped commercial center crowned with a gorgeous sloping green roof. Piano’s “good volcano” contributes a vital new space to the southern edge of the Nola commercial district, which is the most most important freight terminal complex in southern and central Italy.
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Tags: Architecture, BUILDINGS, Italy, mall, volcano buono
energy aware clock by loove broms, karin ehrnberger, sara ilstedt hjelm, erika lundell, jin moen, 2006 – 2008
the energy aware clock is designed to make you aware of your energy consumption on a daily basis. the clock visualizes the daily energy rhythms of the household and reminds us of the ordinary kitchen clock in [...]
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Tags: brussels, Design, design vlaanderen, energy, GREEN, power, saving, visual voltage exhibition
Drive’s designers (a leading company in Marine and Automotive design) seem to have captured this fascination with their innovative “125m 7Cs superyacht” that is inspired from automotive design. This new yacht concept has an air of exclusivity to it with a unique stance. This overtly luxurious cruiser will boast some of the finest specs in [...]
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Tags: concept, Design, design firm, Drive Inc, lifestyle, luxury yacht, superyacht, yacht
The speculation about the concept’s powertrain has gone in several directions, almost all of which were correct. The new concept is a plug-in hybrid with a three-cylinder turbo-diesel engine. Conceived with the idea of melding the performance of a M3 with exceptionally low fuel consumption, BMW claims a 0-62 mph time of 4.8 seconds while [...]
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Tags: bmw, Car, concept car, Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, vision efficientdynamics
Philips Biosphere Home Farming
This Philips non-spherical-biosphere is a self-contained farm for that produces hundreds of calories of various food sources a day. Its five-level design breaks down like this:
Levels 1 and 2: Plants
Level 3: Algae
Level 4: Fish and Shrimp
Level 5: Organic Waste
From what we can tell, the system is designed to cascade nutrients from the top to the [...]
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Tags: biosphere, CONCEPTS, Design, GREEN, PHILIPS, PHILIPS BIOSPHERE
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