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Steel shipping containers are the temporary homes of countless consumer items being transported all around the world. Items are packed into the cargo containers in their country of origin, then shipped to wherever they’re destined to be sold. Once they’re emptied at the appropriate port, many of these cargo containers simply sit around empty or [...]

I’m happy to announce a fabulous GIVEAWAY by our sponsor SlouchBack. Now you might “Ask what is SlouchBack ?” Here is the answer + some pics & a video. “Developed by two university students as a comfort solution to their compact living situations in residence halls is ideal for reading in bed, watching TV, and [...]

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The Fluxus, a wavering Murano glass sculpture, has been created for the White Gallery ( an impressive lifestyle store dedicated to Fashion, Food, Design, Art and Fragrances ), the new luxury lifestyle store due to open in Rome on the 2nd of December. Fluxus is a suspended and apparently fluid surface, a fabric of hand [...]

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This week’s mad Men Monday is late – basically because I had WAY too much fun doing the research for this and am complaining of a chest cold. Next week I’ll start on Friday night!
So, without further ado – here’s our salute to Mad Men Lamps!
The first lamp is on Don’s Desk at the beginning [...]

Victor Boeda is a designer from Paris whose creations are quite impressive. For today we decided to show you this original lighting design. It is called “Cache-Cache” lamp, which in French stands for “hidden”. This is exactly what this item is all about: the light stays concealed behind a flexible material which can be closed [...]

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Cadaval & Solà-Morales is a design company founded in 2003 in New York, but moved their headquarters in Barcelona and New Mexico in 2005. Winner of impressive awards, their main mission is to constantly conduct research in order to come up with new and improved “intelligent solutions”. This particular project is an exhibition(Ulls del Mon) [...]

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This week I had the pleasure of visiting the TU Delft campus in Holland. Their architecture faculty is amazing. It is a very generous environment to work within.

… A huge cone pierces the green expanse, articulated by a 1500 mm wide necklace of glazing in the plane of the roof. Supported on splayed steel columns, the cone houses four levels of traditional study spaces connected by a helical stair. Within the cone, a central void provides daylight from a glazed roof to the internal reading spaces. The apex of the cone is formed by an open frame. Extending forty metres above grade and floodlit at night, the cone acts as a beacon on the campus day and night.

… Designated as the national library for technical and natural sciences, the facility is also connected electronically to major libraries around the world. The library thus satisfies both electronic needs and the sensory pleasures derived from being able to touch and smell the books.

From Milla Rezanova, comes the new “La Roche Chair” concept, with a shape that has the ability of making you stop for a minute and analyse it in detail. Sustained mostly by its outer “cloak”, the chair almost seems like it’s floating, making it hard for one to imagine it is actually stable and connected [...]

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A mix of form and function, the United Oil Gas Station from Kanner Architects is located in Los Angeles, California and is actually a mini-market, a 12-pump gas station, and a car wash. The imposing structure dominates the streets around it and will probably become a center of attraction for the near-by citizens. Its exterior [...]

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(Slide Show) Rediscovering a Forgotten Château in France’s Auvergne Region