(TrendHunter.com) Interior designers are increasignly looking at stairs for a multi-function creative space saving design. Joining the “Library Staircase” we featured a while back is this eco-friendly stairs design that is made of slats of wood bolted together.
The stairs double as a bookcase that saves you space a…
(TrendHunter.com) Children love cardboard boxes. It always happens without fail that a kid will play more with the sturdy box than the toy that came in it. Give them a washing machine or refrigerator box and watch out! Now, the inner child in all of us can play with cardboard boxes or even build our homes with them. …
(TrendHunter.com) Maybe it’s Trendhunter stress, but I’ve been drinking more wine lately. My wine cellar is just a few blocks away, but I’m thinking it would be nice to have a selection right here in the main house. I’ve been perusing other wine cellars and have it narrowed down to these nine. I just need to narrow m…
Was taken last week at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at La Jolla, California which Kati London and I visited courtesy of Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass. The institute was built by architect Louis Kahn as two symmetric concrete buildings with a thin stream of water flowing in the middle of a courtyard that separates the two. Too bad my images don’t do justice to this amazing building.
I find it hard to believe that no one has ever shot a movie there. Elio Petri would have done something amazing with this set.
Anyway, any solemn thought and sense of beauty we might have been filled with vanished half an hour after when we met with Mary Flanagan‘s Giant Joystick which is on view until March 17 in the art gallery in the Calit2 building at UCSD.
Extremely fun and physically exhausting.
(TrendHunter.com) Dutch architect and designer Reinier de Jong designed an object that functions as a chair, a lounger and a stool.
In Dutch, ‘keer’ means to multiply and turn. This word fits perfectly as a name for this object since, if you turn this chair around, you get a lounge chair. Turn it one more time an…
(TrendHunter.com) This bridge-inspired bicycle frame was handmade from cable and carbon fiber rods connected with epoxy resin. It took engineer, Brano Meres, 300 hours to complete his “C-Thru Road Frame”. All in all, it took about an hour per joint – wrapping carbon fibers around each one to ensure their strength. Th…
(TrendHunter.com) We didn’t start the fire, it was in the table, since Cain and Able. Some very cool firepits for inside your abode. Planika Fires use biofuel called Fanola so the fire doesn’t have any smoke or smell. Only water vapor and CO2 equivalent to what humans exhale. Whew. What great fun this would be – and …
(TrendHunter.com) When thinking of a spa, I envision a natural, calm, quiet setting, not over the top sterile environments like Las Vegas. But Vegas may be the best place for this environmentally friendly Desert Winds Eco Spa. The concept is for a solar and wind powered development.
It would be composed of pre-fab …
(TrendHunter.com) The Ornate Garden Rotating Lounger is the perfect seclusion getaway. Just steps away from your home, you could find peace and tranquility surrounded by the fragrant flowers in your own beautiful garden.
Since the globe rotates, your can change your view as often as you like, perhaps rotating with …
(TrendHunter.com) Here is another plan for a super-high skyscraper, this time in Europe’s very own London.
The eco-friendly building, which will be 500 stories high, could house 100,000 non-height-fearing people as well as, schools, hospitals, and stores. The unique aspect to this design, which will be situated in …
(TrendHunter.com) Some people redecorate their homes as often as they revamp their wardrobes. Whether you’re into frequent renos or not, decorating your home can be a fun way to refresh your life, but it’s a tedious task, especially if you have difficulty visualizing the outcome.
To take the complication out of sele…
(TrendHunter.com) Just because you’re a redneck, doesn’t have to mean you can’t live in a mansion. Just look at this nifty dwelling; it’s a pretty unique, self-made living complex.
It’s composed of several trailers, some on ground level, others suspended on solid stilts, connected to the other cubicles by steel la…
(TrendHunter.com) The Wave Tower is the newest high rise building to be built in the city that has too much money. A-cero Architects are incorporating the waves of the oceanfront property into the overall design of the place.
It is supposed to appear as if it is floating and the gently rolling bridge connects it to…
(TrendHunter.com) This really unique piece of architecture reminds me of something you’d see in the Myst computer games.
The details are really quite remarkable, with trinkets like plates in different colours grouted to the walls to make a vibrant mosaic. The pointy needle like towers look like they were sculpted b…
(TrendHunter.com) Lets start with the fact that forty percent of the world´s energy is used by buildings. And that more than fifty percent of the greenhouse gases come from buildings and the construction industry. Now we have a basic understanding of how crucial and important it is to have an eco-friendly building p…
(TrendHunter.com) The Reversible Bikini Lounger is designed by Dutch architect Wiel Arets for Gutzz. The idea came from young ladies sunbathing in Aret’s garden with a towel draped over a large stone.
Apparently this is the first ever chair that Gutzz has produced. The chair is yet in preproduction phase:
Gutzz Clai…
(TrendHunter.com) Futurists have nothing to lose – they can let their imaginations run wild and get publicity for many ideas and creations that will never see the light of day, like those who said that humans would fly in the 21st century. And here is another example of the future can’t-lose guessing game that imagin…
(TrendHunter.com) They were aiming for a radical departure from airport design, and they surely got it. New Zealand’s Wellington Airport has unveiled the design for the final element of its international passenger terminal, which it is calling “the Rock”. The bold and dramatic unique addition is part of its internati…
(TrendHunter.com) The Swedish architect Mats Theselius has, together with the Swedish company Arvesund Trä, created the both beautiful and simple Hermit cabin.
The cabin is made of logs and boards from old Swedish barns that no longer have owners or a healthy life. Instead of turning into a pile of old wood old ba…
(TrendHunter.com) I would totally love to rent this house for a day, and actually The House In The Clouds in Suffolk, England is rentable either daily or weekly, for the price of $900/day or $3800/week. The peculiar house is built on top of a platform, about 70 feet off the ground. The home is actually an old convert…
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