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So you are an hotshot rockstar Japanese architect, who specialises in doing beautiful minimal spaces with lots of natural light. Then comes along some wealthly Tokyo dude who has a thing for collecting exotic cars. He makes an interesting request: “I want to be able to fit nine supercars in my garage, and I want [...]

I couldn’t find much detail on this design, not sure if its just a concept or a finished product. Regardless, the design is hot. I love the flowing, continuous line of the structure. Over the head storage space is extremely useful (and space saving) without compromising aesthetics. If you had a few of these setup, [...]

Dutch designer Gepostet von Stani went all out with his winning entry for a 5 Euro coin design competition. For the theme of ‘Netherlands and Architecture’ Stani created a design packed with symbolism. A homage to the architects that stand as the current standard bearers for Dutch architecture, the coin was made using free software [...]

So this industrial designer named Jonas Samson, who hails from the Netherlands – has developed some pretty neat looking light emitting wallpaper. With Jonas Samson’s high-tech light-emitting wallpaper it’s possible to use a two-dimensional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object. As long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it is indistinguishable [...]

I’ve always been somewhat obsessed with the Kowloon Walled City, it’s so Bladerunner and Ghost in the Shell – it’s pretty crazy that it actually existed. While it’s probably much better for its inhabitants, its a pity it no longer exists as it would be an amazing (albeit dangerous) experience to visit and explore. Hak [...]

If It’s Hip It’s Here have a pretty cool list of modernist masterpieces you can rent out, including Frank Sinatra’s old pad (clock the piano shaped pool above) and a requisite Frank Lloyd Wright. Most of them fly in way beyond my meagre budget, but for the design lover this might be worth the money [...]

We came across this great piece by the guys at Pink Tentacle about these amazing prefabricated houses in Japan. They resemble igloos, and are made out of Styrofoam (the same stuff used coffee cups and packaging) and can be assembled in two to three hours. The amazing part is, this isn’t a concept product or [...]

This awesome looking house belongs to award winning designer and architect Yasuhiro Yamashita. When walking around the more affluent areas of Tokyo, its not unusual to see a few avant garde house designs amongst the otherwise uniform looking houses. This one is pretty special though. I’d love to see what it looks like inside. Design [...]

China’s boom has been dictated amazingly so through its architecture. They’ve really managed to hire some heavyweights to create a skyline which is no doubt giving Hong Kong and the rest and run for their money…. While Beijing’s buildings have been touted innovative and outright contemporary like the Stunning National Grand Theatre (The Egg) above, [...]

Axel Peemoeller designed this series of neat looking signage for the carpark in the Eureka Tower in Melbourne. Supposedly the Eureka Tower is “tallest residential building in the world” as well as one of the largest building projects to use something called 3D Virtual BuildingTM. Sounds automagical. Oh and this design has apparantly won a [...]

Just recently completed, this 8000 sq ft beautifully designed gallery part of the ‘Skirball Cultural Center’ in LA, is dedicated to exploring the connections between four thousand years of Jewish heritage and the vitality of American democratic ideals. How American democratic ideal’s are connected with an Ark full of animals makes me wonder again about [...]