Paint splatters and graffiti might look like accidents or vandalism to some people, but the eye-catching, genre-bending artwork of Rowena Martinich is redefining ideas of art and beauty, while answering one very important question; what would it look like if Warhol, Pollock, and Picasso got together and went wild on a wall?
It’s always been fun to climb trees, and I guess that it’s cool to have some sort of high perch in your garden or in the wilderness to look out from. While you won’t be dragging this unwieldy tent around anytime soon, it’s certainly an interesting way of setting up a treehouse for adults.
The Luminair Tree Tent is a semi-permanent tree house. The curved hybrid aluminum and steam-bent ash frame provides stability, while the 16oz waterproof cotton canvas skin keeps the elements out.
It’s about 10 feet in diameter, which is big enough for two adults. The whole setup weighs about 264 lbs. and can handle another 550 lbs in occupants.
Unfortunately, the Luminair Tree Tent doesn’t come cheap. You’ll have to spend £6500 (~$10,095 USD) in order to get yours. Or you could just build a tree house the old-fashioned way.
[via Uncrate]
Jacksonville, Florida’s huge crowdsourcing event for inventors,
innovators and creative dreamers has come and gone, leaving me to
showcase the most popular ideas of the One Spark event.
This collection by Romain Jacquet-Lagreze will have your head spinning in a dizzy state of confusion. The French photographer and graphic artist created Vertical Horizon as a visual exploration of Hong Kong and it’s rapid growth towards the sky. Using a unique perspective, Jacquet-Lagreze presents the ever-growing city in a repetitively graphic expression of its architecture. More »
3D scanning—though it’s been around since the 1960s—has been in the news of late, with Harvard using the technology to recreate ancient statues and MakerBot announcing a desktop scanner last month. But cheaper, faster, and more accessible 3D scanners aren’t just revolutionizing how we print terrifying models of our own faces. They’re also changing how we understand the city. More »
Looking for an easier way to change the color of your home without breaking out the paint brushes and rollers? Build it from Rubik’s Cubes, instead of traditional materials like wood, steel, or drywall. More »
Honestly, there’s probably a lot of random crap floating around in the Hudson River, but earlier this week the Marist College crew team made a very weird find: an unexplained seven-foot-tall head. More »
Only a decade ago, sustainable building techniques were fairly rare, a fringe culture on the periphery of mainstream architecture. But with Stephen Colbert interviewing radically green architects like Mitchell Joachim and Passive House buildings popping up in New York City, that’s all changing very quickly. More »
After it was reported earlier this month that Apple’s new “spaceship” campus (or officially known as “Campus 2″) was behind schedule and $2 billion over budget, the Cupertino-based company ended up revising its plans for the new campus in order cut costs a bit. The revised plans also show off more of the campus, such as bike paths, parking, and streets.
The revised proposal, which was sent to the City of Cupertino lists some of the changes that Apple has made to the plans, including splitting up the entire project into more phases. Apple originally planned on constructing a 600,000 square foot area of buildings known as the Tantau Development in two phases. However, they’ve pushed that entire project into one phase that will be started on after the main campus building is complete.
Furthermore, Apple has added descriptions for bicycle access improvements at the new campus, which will come with bike lanes and plenty of bike boxes to make the campus as bike friendly as possible. Parking will also increase from 10,500 spaces to almost 11,000 spaces on the campus, and a new valet parking area, which has 60 parking spaces, will be available for events at the corporate auditorium.
Apple Campus 2′s budget is at around $5 billion, and the main campus “spaceship” building will be 2.8 million square feet, and is designed to hold 12,000 employees. Ground-breaking is still scheduled for sometime this summer, with a completion date sometime in 2016, although the project could easily see delays further down the road.
[via MacRumors]
Apple trims Campus 2 plans to cut costs is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The Green Gables Stadium never existed in real life, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the façade of this Lego model. The huge domed stadium, built by Lego maniac RedCoKid, looks just like an early 20th century ballpark, and it sports some cool features beyond looking really pretty. More »
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