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Gulf Oil Spill
Designer: BP
Location: Gulf of Mexico
Image Credits: Charlie Riedel
AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana's East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming more frequent, and the effects more evident.
→ www.boston.com
Posted: 06/03/2010
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NY and LA Tables
Designer: Faktura
Location: New York & Los Angeles
The studio in New York Faktura has designed these high tables with legs in tubular steel wind and bend to form letters. Plus loin que le jeu typographique, un jeu sur Farther than the game typographical game on l'équilibre et le déséquilibre qui perturbe nos habitudes et nos perceptions. balance and imbalance which disrupts our habits and perceptions.
Les tables NY et LA sont composées d'une structure en acier laquée disponible en plusieurs teintes et d'un plateau en Corian ou en bambou. Tables NY and LA are composed of a steel frame coated in various shades available and a Corian tray or bamboo.
→ muuuz.com
Posted: 06/02/2010
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Favela Painting
Designer: Jeroen Koolhas and Dre Urhahn
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jeroen Koolhas and Dre Urhahn are two artist from Netherlands who started working together in 2005. In 2006, they started developing the idea of creating community-driven art interventions in Brazil. Their efforts yielded two murals which were painted in Vila Cruzeiro, Rio’s most notorious slum, in collaboration with local youth. After both murals were finished, they started their third stage of their project, ‘O Morro’.
→ www.archdaily.com
Posted: 06/01/2010
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Mikroskop
Designer: Olafur Eliasson
Location: Berlin, Germany
Image Credits: Jens Ziehe © 2010 Olafur Eliasson
Mikroskop is one of the installations by Olafur Eliasson in his exhibition “Innen Stadt Außen” (Inner City Out), at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. It’s a huge kaleidoscope in the atrium of the museum, as high as the skylight.
→ www.todayandtomorrow.net
Posted: 06/01/2010
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Fallingwater On-Site Cottages Proposal
Designer: Saucier + Perrotte Architectes
Location: Bear Run, PA
The cottages for the Fallingwater educational project propose an approach whose design synthesizes notions of nature and its relationship with human beings, while simultaneously allowing visitors to become fully immersed in the breathtaking landscape through precise, meaningful architectural intervention.
→ bustler.net
Posted: 05/29/2010
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