Every once in a while, advertising is amazing. World champion sand sculptor JOOheng Tanwas recently asked by ad agency Lowe in Singapore to help create these impressive backdrops for an OMO washing detergent ad campaign. In an age when something like this could have been created digitally, they asked Tan to physically build three 18-ton sand sculptures to be used as backdrops in ads encouraging
The Minister’s Treehouse: A 100ft Tall Church Built Over 11 Years without Blueprints
The Minister’s Treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee is a 100ft structure built by minister Horace Burgess from the early 1990s through 2004. The entire building wraps around a giant tree and was built completely without blueprints, sprawling to an estimated 10,000 square feet inside, including a four-story swing set. Photographer Kristin Sweeting took arecent trip to the treehouse and took many of
Indian Patterns and Fabrics Adorning the New Park Hyatt Hyderabad Hotel by HBA
HBA continues their rich tradition of integrating faraway cultures with the height of modern luxury with the design of the Park Hyatt Hyderabad, the first city Park Hyatt hotel in India. During the initial design stages, HBA designers spent time getting acquainted with the environment visiting local museums, viewing historical architecture and studying local culture and fashion. The result
Crochet Playgrounds by Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam
In the mid 1990s Japanese artist Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam was showing a large scale crochet artwork at an art gallery when two rambunctious children approached her and asked if the sculpture, resembling a colorful hammock, could be climbed on. She nervously agreed and watched cautiously as her suspended artwork twisted and stretched as the kids climbed on top of it. Suddenly an idea was born.
Levi van Veluw, Fine Art!
Levi van Veluw | Material transfers | Carpet | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2008Levi van Veluw | Material transfers | Gravel | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2007Levi van Veluw | Material transfers | Sterling wood | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2008Levi van Veluw, Landscape, 2008Landscapes, Landscape II, 2008120x100cm & 60x50cmLandscapes, Landscape III, 2008120x100cm & 60x50cmLandscapes, Landscape IV, 2008120x100cm &
High Line, New York, USA
Photograph copyright Iwan Baan.Photograph copyright Iwan Baan.Photograph copyright Iwan Baan.The HighLine is a new 1.5-mile long public park built on an abandoned elevated railroadstretching from the Meatpacking District to the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan. Inspired bythe melancholic, unruly beauty of this postindustrial ruin, where nature hasreclaimed a once vital piece of urban infrastructure
Tree Ring Lights by Judson Beaumont
These funky tree lights were designed by Judson Beaumont of Straight Line Designs, a furniture design firm out of Vancouver. Called Tree Rings the lights are made out of a beetle pine shell topped with mirrored Plexiglas that allows the embedded cool fluorescent light to shine through in the dark. I’m not sure of the practical application, but it appears the lights can be used as as small tables
Hermes Boutique by RDAI, Paris
RDAI have designed the Hermes Boutique at the Lutetia swimming pool in Paris, France. Hermès has entrusted the RDAI agency, which is reponsible for designing all the Hermès stores worldwide, with the design of a new space, singular and unexpected in Paris. Hermès is setting up shop in a swimming pool…An immense volume, empty. An impression more of space than of surface area. And now, at the end
14 Facts You Didn’t Know About Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier by Willy Rizzo. Photos © Willy Rizzo.Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965) will forever be known as an icon of Modernism, but did you know that the man who changed the face of architecture led quite the colorful personal life?In honor of his 125th birthday, take a moment to check out some Corbu classics (perhapsConvent of La Tourette, Ronchamp, Villa Savoye, Unite
9 Things They Don’t Tell You About Dating An Architect
Sunday, October 7, 20121“Architects make a lot of money.”This is not true. (But people assume it is.)2Architects are used to late nights.In theory, it shouldn’t be a problem to stay up all night for sexytime. But in reality, they probably pulled an all-nighter last night and are ready to crash at 8 tonight.3There is no such thing as a fat architect.For some reason. I have no idea.4Things you never even knew existed are
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