via: [ link ] European artists such as Toulouse Lautrec, van Gogh, Vallotton or Americans Frank Lloyd Wright and McNeill Whistler were fascinated and stimulated by Japanese culture. Their vision and oeuvre was strongly influenced by Japanese art. By the same token there were also many Japanese artists who were profoundly influenced by European modernity […]

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”.

via: link Cape Town architects MMA have started work on a pilot project of ten affordable houses built using a sand-bag construction system. The house is the first of 100 experimental, low-cost homes for former shack dwellers that will be built at Freedom Park on the outskirts of Cape Town. The houses each have a […]

via: AS|D Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island, which will be the world’s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster’s enormous 27 million square foot structure will be a city within a building and will cost $4 billion dollars to build. It is scheduled to be built within […]

The World Islands, are a collection of man-made islands shaped into the continents of the world, located off the coast of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. It will consist of 300 small private artificial islands divided into four categories – private homes, estate homes, dream resorts, and community islands. The World

As the new launch comes I’ll touch more on these subjects ie. luxury, transportation, fashion etc. via: TheCoolHunter The Nagare, says Holzhausen, was just the first expression of flow. For the Detroit show in January, the Irivine studio team distilled this idea into a deliberately more feasible and down-to-earth form: the 2010 Ryuga sports car […]

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The idea and stimulus for the Waterpod comes from projects like Constant Nieuhaus’s “New Babylon”. Mr. Nieuhaus created a movable compartmentalized city that would occasionally extend onto the water. The Waterpod also stems from the concepts and visions of many micronations and their ideals of the free state, many times floating on water and occasionally, […]

For most air passengers a nine hour flight involves the prospect of cramped leg room, a troubled sleep and meals delivered with plastic cutlery. For first class customers of Jet Airways, however, the experience is a little more civilised. Passengers prepared to pay out just over £4,000 for a trip to Delhi will get to […]

This website was my favorite during those dreamless.org days, this is when we [as in design community] collaborated freely. ‘remix’ was another term, i post a psd, and you flip it…ok , our economy has folded and commerce is passion. no not in reality, just in alot of their minds. so this post is for […]

via: savills Category A listed Dumfries House, built between 1754 and 1759 to the design of John, Robert and James Adam and recognised as the most important house designed by the three brothers in the early period. The 1,945 acre estate is centred on Dumfries House and its surrounding designed landscape. The outlying agricultural and […]