I Love Dust: Macho Man Randy Savage inspired portfolio package
I Love Dust has found a muse; Macho Man, Randy Savage. They created this colorful package for their latest portfolio.
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Simply Delightful: One-Room Apartment with a Homey Feel
With a design that seems perfectly planned to ensure the coziest possible living space for a small apartment, this crib definitely has what it takes to inspire. Featuring a total surface of just 34 square meters and consisting of one room plus kitchen, hallway and bathroom, you could say this place is an ingenious display of Scandinavian design. A small hallway is connected to the entrance door and leads the inhabitants toward the small bathroom, bedroom and kitchen. The hall offers practical storage space in the form of a walk-in closet with shelves and hooks. Near the front door there is space for a shoe rack. The bedroom is very charming and offers quite a few exceptional decorative items, most of which have a traditional style. The bed frame, dressers, chests and picture frames give out a cozy, very original feel. All these by cleverly using such a small amount of living space. How do you appreciate the design of this small apartment?
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Twin Houses by MGP Architecture
MGP Architecture designed Twin Houses in Bogota, Colombia.
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Description from the architects:
Two eloquent, L shaped concrete containers that depend on each other in order to live individually. Each house complements its neighbour to configure the central patio and to have intimacy at the same time. The houses live inside from the outside. The concrete containers shape both patios in a sequence descending on the terrain. The inner and the outer spaces merge and acquire the same spatial value.
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Photography by Andrés Valbuena, Ivan Ortiz, and MGP
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Iceland’s crowdsourced constitution submitted for approval, Nyan Cat takes flight over Reykjavik
A committee of 25 Icelanders submitted the first draft of a rewritten constitution to the country’s parliamentary speaker Friday, and despite our recommendations, Rebecca Black was conspicuously absent from the proceedings. The democratic experiment bravely asked citizens to log on to Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter to engage with the committee in a discussion about the nation’s future. While the project’s Facebook page played host to pleads for free ice cream and more volcanoes, the constitution’s creators managed to stay on task, focusing on issues of decentralization and transparency in government. The draft is slated for review beginning October 1st.
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Leave a commentDNA-based artificial neural network is a primitive brain in a test tube (video)
Many simpler forms of life on this planet, including some of our earliest ancestors, don’t have proper brains. Instead they have networks of neurons that fire in response to stimuli, triggering reactions. Scientists from Caltech have actually figured out how to create such a primitive pre-brain using strands of DNA. Researchers, led by Lulu Qian, strung together DNA molecules to create bio-mechanical circuits. By sequencing the four bases of our genetic code in a particular way, they were able to program it to respond differently to various inputs. To prove their success the team quizzed the organic circuit, essentially playing 20 questions, feeding it clues to the identity of a particular scientist using more DNA strands. The artificial neural network nailed answer every time. Check out the PR and pair of videos that dig a little deeper into the experiment after the break.
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Street Level Suburbia On the Edge of a Lagoon
On the edge of the Narrabeen Lagoon, a residence overlooking a wild, untouched island covered in casuarina trees, shelters contemporary living spaces for a lucky family. The street view hides the lagoon beyond and conveys a comfortable feeling of suburbia. The architects from Choi Ropiha Fighera found themselves “drawn to the suburban qualities of the street and this dramatic contrast between the front and back of the property“. Behind the levelled street facade, the residence opens to the panoramic views with its multitude of large glazed windows. Replacing a former 1970s cream brick house, the Narrabeen House in Sydney, Australia showcases a cascading display of rooms. The street level houses the entrance, driveway and garage, while the next cluster of spaces – living room, dining room, kitchen, study and pool – are gathered around a centrally situated courtyard. This allows the rooms to visually communicate with each other. The architects explain their work: “the planning is composed to deliberately isolate the occupant from the suburban surrounds to heighten the sense of oasis and privateness. This process begins at the street bringing visitors through a succession of exterior spaces that gradually compress and remove the street context through a composition of fences, full height screens and thresholds. The entry sequence eventually terminates at a solid doorway where the sense of intrigue peaks. Rather than entering into a hallway, one arrives in the courtyard where the full extent of the private domain, the lagoon and island are revealed and any sense of the outside world removed.”
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Maimon’s Baking Products
Maimon’s Baking Products packaging design is the latest creations of Blend It. ”The design concept was based on the scientific precision and perfectionism required of the pastry chef, in contrast to the sensuality and spontaneity expressed by the “messy” dirty dishes and work area.”
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The world’s first all-glass, undersea restaurant.
Ithaa Undersea Restaurant
Dine 16 feet below sea level at Ithaa, the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island’s unique undersea restaurant. Marvel at 180° views of reef and marine life, sip champagne cocktails and sample Maldivian-Western fusion cuisine at this spectacular Maldives venue – the world’s first all-glass, undersea restaurant.
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To celebrate their anniversary, the restaurant offered guests the chance to not only eat under the sea, but sleep under it as well. The 12-seat restaurant, which sits 16 feet below sea level of the Indian Ocean, was converted into a private bedroom suite for two, complete with a private champagne dinner and breakfast in bed. The view of the vibrant coral reef that surrounds the encased clear glass is utterly breathtaking.
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Razer’s Electra headphones pump out bass, keep your voice ‘inline’ for $60
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Leave a commentPoint Lonsdale Beach House by Baenziger Coles
Baenziger Coles Architects have designed a beach house in Point Lonsdale, Australia.
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Point Lonsdale Beach House by Baenziger Coles
Project Overview
The building is a reflection of the owner’s passion for the outdoors and the many wonderful outdoor pursuits including; surfing, fishing, and surf life saving. A desire for a retreat whereby one could simply relax and entertain family and friends in comfortable interior spaces with an integral link to the outdoors. This was more about the connection with the ground rather than views of the water or the beach.
Project Brief
The design of the house is contemporary in its approach to design and crafted in its execution. The scale of the house respects adjoining neighbours. The site orientation and arrangement of the built forms respond and embrace the natural environment at every opportunity, as does the use of local and recycled materials. The design emulates a passion for quality, aesthetics, functionality and its relationship with the environment.
The design is based on the simple arrangement of three distinct elements – the first floor “container”, the ground floor area that contains the internal spatial arrangements and the lounge area.
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