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Connected: Monocycle. Pre-fabricated housing, Derelict London

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Monowheel

Monocycle - Ben Wilson’s ‘Monowheel’, a working prototype commissioned by Issey Miyake for the xx21st Centry Man Exhibition.
15 Fab Prefabs - Great list which shows how far architecturally, the prefab has come from its postwar origins.
Derelict London - Paul Talling’s nicely categorised collection of photographs of a hidden London.

Tags: Bikes
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Buildings in motion

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Dynamic Tower

Architect David Fisher has announced plans for a rotating skyscraper or ‘Dynamic Tower’ to be built in Dubai and Moscow. Its planned that each floor will rotate at a different speed resulting in an ever changing profile, therefore as the architect puts it, “introducing a fourth dimension to architecture, Time”. The building’s have been designed to be built from pre-fabricated parts manufactured off site allowing for a construction time of seven days per floor. Their green credentials will be that once built, they will be able to generate their own electricity therefore becoming self-powered. If successful there’s plans to build a third tower in New York. You can download a brochure for the Dubai proposal here.

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Connected: 10.06.08

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Graphic Design Museum

Graphic Design Museum - June 11th sees the opening of the world’s first museum to specifically focus on graphic design. The museum’s in Breda, Holland, and opens with four exhibitions including the semi-permanent ‘100 Years of Graphic Design in Holland‘. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to visit this summer.
Baumraum - Amazing tree houses from Germany

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Connected: 22.05.08

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Sten Frenke House

The Russian Garbo - Design agency Pentagram publish number 38 in their series of Pentagram Papers focussing on the restoration of the Richard Neutra designed ‘Sten-Frenke’ House.
25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and “frilly bits” put together by Cameron Moll
Information Design Patterns. A fantastic resource - Christian Beren’s Masters Thesis ‘The Form of Facts and Figures’. Let’s hope it gets published.

Tags: IA, IA/UX, Richard Neutra
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