The cow isn’t where it started. It started with concrete being poured into the soil with hay masses inside. And then the baby calf started eating (designing) the interior of the house until it was empty and ready for furniture (and the calf was indeed no longer a calf, but a cow). After that, the […]

As contemporary architecture continues to influence design, more and more the unlikely becomes reality…such as shipping containers becoming an architectural phenomenon. It makes sense: why not make something that is modular, affordable and virtually indestructible into a living space, even if it was used to transport bars of luxury soap from southern Italy to the […]

I’ve got a few kids to buy Christmas gifts for this year and whilst stumbling around looking for something outside the Bratz-Bakugan-Hannah Montana junta I found these Lego Architecture sets and I became insanely jealous. Sure, I had that awesome castle set when I was a young’un, and of course copious space/moon sets (anybody out […]

Love the bold lines of this flatpack shelf. It’s a great minimalist / modern look that won’t look out of place next to more contemporary furniture as well as with classic modernist furniture by someone like Eames, etc. The word timeless comes to mind. Jörg Schatzmann is all about DIY / tinkering, low / no budget […]

Give your toddler a knife, a screwdriver and a blindfold before setting them loose to prod and poke, courtesy of Ironic Sans… Not to be pesimistic, but do you know what something like this could do to the various interests who would lose out should the Outlet Wall become common place? Billy Mays would be […]

Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has designed “a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees,” according to inhabitat. Even if it will never ever happen, the design is cool as hell. “Biomimicry was clearly the inspiration behind the design. The Lilypad, which was designed to look like […]