Do you need a distraction from the fact that a freak storm might kill you by the end of the weekend? Here we are to your mental rescue with light up roads, a giant sewing box that’s actually a cabinet, and much more in this round of the most beautiful items of the week. More »
Naomi Campbell’s new spaceship is almost done. The stunning 28,524-square-foot (2,650-square-meter) mansion feels like a smoothed Star Destroyer, with two 65-foot (20-meter) towers as the ship’s bridge overlooking lush hills covered with birch and pine forests. The photos and the scale is nothing short of stunning. More »
Brownstones are an iconic part of the New York landscape, as defining a feature as the yellow cabs on the street or the towering office blocks that inhabit Manhattan. But times are changing, and the city’s finally run out of its famed building material. More »
I’ve always had a fascination with bridges ever since I was a kid, all thanks to the rhyme that went ‘London bridge is falling down…’ Now that I think of it, it’s a sad rhyme and what does it have to do with the fair lady?
Anyway, that fascination wore off when I realized that bridges were just, you know, bridges. But I think this concept for a trampoline bridge in Paris (called ‘A Bridge in Paris’ – stating the obvious, I know) might have just brought the joy back to bridges!
Basically, the picture says it all. To let everyone experience the ‘joyful release from gravity’, the AZC Architecture Studio designed the bridge using three gigantic trampolines that would be connected with massive inflatable tubes.
Now that’s one bridge that I’d like to keep crossing all day long.
Of course, they don’t quite explain how they’d keep people from flying off the thing and landing in the River Seine.
[via designboom and DVice via LikeCool]
Tired eyes? It’s probably the computer screen. But you’ve come to the right place—we’ve got sightly things in spades. From a city lamp to geometric light fixtures, these were the most beautiful things we posted this week. More »
If you ever wondered why blueprints were blue and not black or red or white or brown or any other color than blue, well, it’s not because architects really like the color but because the technique in making blueprints caused the paper to turn blue. More »
This bridge really rocks. A goddamn trampoline bridge! It may result in some broken necks and legs but screw it, that’s the price you pay for having a way to cross the river Seine jumping like Spider-Man. More »
There was no dearth of fetching things in the past few days. This round, you get a look at NYC’s Times Square, a wheelbarrow chair, and much more in the most beautiful items of the week. More »
Say hello to the world’s most visited destination—Times Square in New York City. This single attraction hosts more visitors every year than Canadia has residents. This collection of shots from our friends at Oobject illustrate the Square’s radical evolution over the past century from former NYT publishing house to giant, glitter ball-topped billboard. More »
We’ve found the Shire and it exists in Switzerland. Just looking at these houses, built by Peter Vetsch, hidden in the Earth makes you think of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I want to live there so bad. More »
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