Future Living - Housing Project by Various Designers & Yanko Design This is Future Living The Future Living house is a testament to the will of design. It took twenty six designers (a feat in itself) to create it. Every technologic leap was analyzed to make sure anything proposed was possible by 2050. It’s a paradigm shift in home resource creation and location. Water uses gravity to generate pressure. Design Team: Cornelia Bailey, Tanushree Bhat, Marilee Bowles Carey, Anthony Caspary, Eric Diamond, Xiaonan Huang, Reenu John, Na Rae Kim, Paolo Korre, Eugene Limb, Hsin-Cheng Lin, Miguel Angel Martinez, Nikhil Mathew, Elise Metzger, Mahdieh Salimi, Kshitij V. Wakerupper - The Web's Easiest Telephone Reminder Two in One House by clavienrossier architectes hes/sia A house on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland includes two apartments of differing size yet gives the impression of a single unit thanks to a pitched roof over a diamond shaped plan. (Click the images below for full sized images) From clavienrossier architectes hes/sia: The site is located on the edge of a residential zone on the outskirts of Geneva flanked on its southern border by a forest and opening out to fields to the west. It sits right on the line between the city and nature. The building, backed by a paved access ramp, is placed in the north east corner of the site. The program includes two apartments of differing size, a continuous party wall separates the two. A pitched roof over a diamond shaped plan, allows each apartment to have its own orientation. The split geometry of the facades makes it difficult to get a grasp of the real size of the building, giving each individual facade a more domestic scale. The building conforms to very high energy standards. Photos: Roger Frei
The Butchart Gardens Architects transform submarine into a bar Two hundred and fifty years ago, brewer Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease for his St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. To commemorate this event, the Guinness company could have rolled out a stretch limousine, but it decided to go one better by launching a “deep-sea bar” in the chilly waters of the Baltic off Stockholm, Sweden. View all Jump Studios was given the brief of redesigning the interior of the submarine to reflect the Guinness slogan “Alive Inside,” and with the help of carpentry and engineering specialist Nicholas Alexander created a GRP (glass-reinforced plastic) shell that fits inside the passenger compartment of the submarine. The submarine posed a number challenges for the team. So, the shell was built out of six types of modular components that could be fitted inside the cabin to form bars, tables, and seating for five people. Among the first passengers were competition winner Evelyne Gridelet and two guests. Source: Jump Studios via Arch Daily
Easter Eggs - Eeggs.com MINIMOD by mapa The house has a modulated structure and design, which allows multiple configurations and customizations. Starting from a minimal module, MINIMOD invests in customization, design and sustainability. The production is carried out in a prefabricated manner and enjoys the steel frame system technology, which allows the client program definition needs and choice of finishes, as well as automation options. Depending on the composition of the modules, the MINIMOD offers different possibilities – ranging from a compact weekend retreat, a small show room for events up to larger programs and elaborated as hotels and inns, combining a larger number of modules. The modules are 100% prefabricated. MINIMOD than is take to any site by truck or disassembled into smaller pieces and taken to the ground for final assembly. Importantly, the expansion and addition of new modules can be performed either at initial installation or in the middle of the process, according to the needs and budgets of the client.
Historic L.A. hospital site to be turned into senior apartments A historic — and some say haunted — Los Angeles hospital that has been closed for two decades is set to be converted into apartments for low-income seniors in a $40-million makeover. Linda Vista Community Hospital is an imposing relic from the days when railroads took care of their sick and injured employees in company facilities. Originally known as Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital, it was built for employees of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in Boyle Heights, a blue-collar neighborhood east of the city's rail yards and home to many railroad workers. The original hospital opened in 1905. It was razed and rebuilt on the same site in the mid-1920s, and additions were made through 1939. PHOTOS: New life for hospital Although the hospital closed in 1991, the six-story complex survives with its dignity mostly intact — with peeling paint and roosting pigeons adding to tales of sudden chilly drafts and paranormal activity inside. And Linda Vista is a lulu of an abandoned property.
online graphical dictionary and thesaurus Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. It's a dictionary! Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. The Visuwords™ Interface To use the applet you only need to type a word into the search query at the top of the page and press 'Enter'. You can zoom the model in and out by rolling the wheel on your mouse. Understanding the links between Synsets "is a kind of" — hyponym/hypernym pair With regards to "wheat" and "grain", we see a cyan link from "wheat" pointing towards "grain" we can understand this to mean that wheat "is a kind of" grain.
mizuishi architect atelier: house in nukuikitamachi oct 16, 2011 mizuishi architect atelier: house in nukuikitamachi ‘house in nukuikitamachi’ by mizuishi architects atelier in koganei, tokyo, japan all images courtesy mizuishi architects atelier japanese practice mizuishi architect atelier (kota mizuishi) has shared with us images of ‘house in nukuikitamachi’, a two-storey private dwelling for a family of four and their pets in tokyo, japan. aiming to be a flexible living space that does not require constant maintenance, the design utilizes a series of ‘futokoro’ – recess void within something – to create a number of functional areas that extend the layout. exterior view approach terrace space looking into living space view of terrace space from second level from kitchen staircase lightwell view of kitchen on lower level (left) atrium lightwell (right) view of bedroom bedroom on second level view of study space from bedroom washroom night view site map floor plan / level 0 floor plan / level +1 section project info: erika kim I designboom
Bizarre CCTV headquarters seems to defy gravity CCTV's Beijing headquarters (Photo: OMA / Iwan Baan) Image Gallery (18 images) Office buildings have traditionally been so staid that whimsical departures from the norm still trigger a strong response, both good and bad. The latest member of the avant-garde architecture club, the estimated US$1.08 billion, 44-floor, 768 ft (234 m) CCTV headquarters building in Beijing (already so iconic it's part of a board game for architecture groupies) is now finally complete - after nearly eight years of construction. View all With its five million square feet plus (473,000 sq m) of floor space, the voluminous OMA-designed China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters is comprised of two leaning towers connected by an innovative 246 ft (75m) cantilever that appears to defy physics to form what is essentially a linear loop. An adjacent tower, the Beijing Televison Cultural Center (BTCC) was scheduled for earlier completion but caught fire in 2009 - apparently due to wayward fireworks. About the Author
The Lord of the Rings Family Tree Project Carrot City - CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPULs) Exhibit Category / Catégorie de l'expo: City Location/Emplacement: London, England Dates: 2004 - present Designers/Concepteurs: Bohn & Viljoen Architects Clients: Greater London Authority (Thames Gateway Report) More Information/Plus d'informations: Image Credits/Crédits d'images: Bohn and Viljoen Architects Project Description: (version française ci-dessous) Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPULs) is a design strategy for the coherent introduction of urban agriculture into new and existing cities by creating networks of productive open space that traverse cities, integrating urban agriculture fields and gardens. Acknowledging that healthy food is essential to quality of life, the CPUL concept attempts to create urban environments with food and for food, while reducing resource consumption implicit in conventional agriculture. Browse for more projects in the Carrot City Index. Description du Projet: Index Scale (Carrot City Category) Theme