Archive for March, 2007
Royal Ontario Museum extension
The Royal Ontario Museum is a learning and exhibition centre as well as an important educational facility for many schools in and around Toronto. It consists of several buildings constructed between the 1920s and the 1980s, and in the summer of 2007, a new building extension will be completed. Designed by Daniel Libeskind this is […]
Grass wheel
This project brings nature at you’re feet. If you don’t have enough time to enjoy a walk in the park you can roll over a grass carpet while getting to the office. This is in fact another way of reminding people that, they are too busy running everyday, like little hamsters, while ignoring nature a […]
Beirut bullet lights
Beirut is trying to recover after a cruel war and there are some urban project aimed to reborn the city and its social life. And maybe the best way of responding to the war signs is art. All across Beirut you can find walls covered with bullets holes. This brings memories of violence, conflict and […]
How to become an island
The house is in Chongqing, central China, and this town is considered to be the fastest growing urban centre in the world, with more than 4million residents. But some don’t seem to agree with so many changes, especially when their home is involved. This family refused the large sum of money offered by the developer […]
Dustbin table
Marie-Louise Gustafsson designed a table for those who are dependent of their dustbin, or like to easily tide their work space. You don’t have to look for the wastebasket somewhere under the desk (God knows where it is), the slide-like table top allows you to literally push those useless papers to the side and straight […]
Light transmitting concrete
How can a concrete wall transmit inside the building the silhouettes of trees or passersby? By adding optical fibers to the mix. The world’s most popular building material, combined with an array of glass fibers creates a new material which seems to be porous because of it’s capability of transmitting light. The optical fibers, used […]
