We’ve taken a video tour of John Lautner’s Sheats Goldstein Residence before, one of Los Angeles most famous and iconic architectural gems, but I think Wildfox Swimwear’s 2013 campaign makes a much more powerful aesthetic argument as to why it’s so special. Shot by erstwhile party photographer Mark “The Cobrasnake” Hunter, the campaign keeps it […]

Australian born designer Marc Newson takes his ‘industrial artist’ title very seriously. Having designed practical and functional goods such as chairs, cars and planes, he’s also taken his design skills and applied them to an idea that’s well beyond this earth, as he even designed a spaceship. It’s not all grand-scale and limited edition designing […]

World renowned architect/designer Zaha Hadid has been commissioned by London-based art dealer and writer Kenny Schachter to design a boat as part of his Rove projects, also home to the Z-Car which is another collaborative project between the power duo. Measuring at 8 meters (~26ft), the asymmetric, carbon fibre and fiberglass speedboat will be offered […]

If you’re going to Occupy Wall Street I suggest you use an Evol Cardboard Architecture panel as your makeshift shanty. The Berlin based and Eurocentric street artist uses intricate stencils to transform electrical boxes, planters, cardboard, and other pieces of worn urbanity into detailed cityscapes. Evol is so skilled with cadences of light and shadow that it’s […]

How do you best grasp obtuse concepts? With a constant influx of information, prose becomes tedious, PowerPoint is mundane, lectures are too easy to tune out; but the information graphic seems to maintain focus from even the shortest of attention spans. Author of Information Graphics Sandra Rendgen has concluded that visuals are the only way […]

Comprehensively detailing exciting complete and under-construction projects around the world, Architecture Now! 8 is an amazing resource for contemporary architecture. The hardcover book covers a wide array of geographic locations including the jungle, the modern city and the desert. These interesting building projects are discussed thoroughly, and celebrate the architects whose ingenuity created the unique […]

Capturing the development of the modern architectural landscape, Taschen releases a new coffee table book featuring the most innovative private residences around the world from the last decade. The extraordinary homes defy the cookie-cutter houses of suburbia, and shift our perspective on what makes a building a home. The manipulation of conventional space is astounding […]

Swiss watchmaker Hublot celebrates Brasilia (Brazil’s capital) and the architect who planned the modernist dream city with its aptly named Aero Bang Niemeyer watch. Hublot, as the official timekeeper of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, has worked with world renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer, to design the exclusive watch that commemorates Niemeyer’s 104th birthday. Niemeyer, […]