Astral

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman (Pace) begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm (Untaru), a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur […]

An intergrated Landscape, Interior and Architectural practice, formed in 1989 in Norway and has operated continuously since that time. The architecture and landscape architecutre practice is based in Oslo, Norway and in New York City. 25% of the company is composed of landscape and interior architects sharing studio spaces directly with architects. [ link ]

Designer and architect from California. [ link ]

Previously here Please tell us how this project has started. This is a large project implemented by Swarovski to renew boutiques and concessions in all major fashion capitals around the world. It was the year 2005 when I first worked with Swarovski for the project called Swarovski Crystal Palace. For this landmark project, in which […]

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created Local River, a concept for a domestic “refrigerator-aquarium” that breeds freshwater fish for eating and grows vegetables at the same time. [ via: Dezeen ] Vegetables growing in floating pots would help purify the water by removing nitrates and other minerals.

Hogarth Architects have remodelled the interior of a listed apartment on Queen’s Gate Terrace in South Kensington, London. Retaining the historic fire surround and cornice but removing later partitions and a false ceiling, the architects inserted a two-level timber structure containing the kitchen, bathroom, a mezzanine and storage.

Until The Kingdom Comes In his photographs, Simen Johan explores darkly the human proclivity towards fantasy and our attempts, knowing or otherwise, to craft alternate realities for ourselves. Merging traditional photographic techniques with digital methods, Johan creates each of his images from as many as one hundred negatives, having first constructed or discovered each element […]

I talked about the minor side of things in my Islands post. Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed the master plan for Waterfront City, a new city proposed for Dubai. The 140,000,000 square metre development, set on an artificial square island, will be built by Dubai-based developer Nakheel.

via: [ Kyle Cherry ] Canvas is a computer for the 21-centuery designer. Incorporating both modern and traditional design techniques into a computer that will increase the quality and productivity of the designers work. Canvas well allow an artist or designer to use the PC with little to no training By making the PC experience […]

Terry Pawson Architects [ link ] Twin Houses, Kingston upon Thames wins approval The new development is sited on the plot of an existing private house dating from the 1950s. Two new interlocking houses, each with its own central courtyard, have been sited around a number of mature trees already on the site, creating a […]

Kris’ art can also be seen in a number of international art magazines, book covers and theatrical posters. Kris’ art is featured in both public and private collections in the United States, Europe, and Australia. [ link ]

Tokujin Yoshioka designs exterior for SWAROVSKI named “Crystal Forest“, the exterior is covered in stainless-steel pieces reflecting fragmented views of the street. As the key elements of the shop, the facade is covered with stainless-steel mirror reliefs. It reflects the various scenes from the different angles and sparkles brightly like a “Crystal Forest”.