An example on preserving, maintaining, and reusing.
Keeping the old traditions alive !
Steam Powered Box Factory.mpg (by MrShoptaw)
Elegant design using renewable materials.
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Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption by Moto Designshop Inc.
Using these techniques, we are able to propose bamboo, a natural, strong and renewable material as both structure and finish. It is very important to us that the design communicate the skill of the Haitian people. Rebuilding this place of worship should be by the people and of the people. The Woven Tree aims to be a definitive expression of the remarkable people of Haiti.
Somos Luz.
“Somos Luz” (“We are Light”) is the message painted on 50 houses at the building Begonia I in the neighborhood of El Chorrillo (Panama City). It´s been made by spanish artists collective Boa Mistura with the neighbors help.
Boa Mistura was inspired by the neighborhood identity. The starting point is the color grid spontaneously generated by every neighbor when they paint only the part of the building that they understand as his house. The new typography layer modifies this grid losing the housing unit in favor of the community concept.
by Skip Dolphin Hursh. More fun work here.
“CHASING ICE” captures largest glacier calving ever filmed - OFFICIAL VIDEO (by WeAreExposure)
Icons of mankind.
The 10 most recognisable buildings in the world according to a recent poll.
History - past, present, and future!
(Source: discoverarchitecture)
Opened in Torino (Italy) 2011, Parco Dora by LATZ + PARTNER represents a compelling example of reuse of former industrial areas: it preserves the past as a landmark and changes the landscape, inventing a new public space for all.
Photos by: Mattia Boero, Heidemarie Niemann, Ornella Orlandini, Andrea Serra, Fabrizio Zanelli, Latz + Partner. All rights reserved.
Life is always full of surprises !
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This is amazing: The first canon from Bach’s Musical Offering, known as the “crab canon,” is essentially the musical version of a Möbius Strip – it can be played back-to-front as well. Then again, mathemusician Vi Hart knew that when she used backwards Bach and a music box to explain space-time.
The life-cycle of a single drop of water, in a stunning stop-motion pop-up book by photographer Chris Turner, paper engineer Helen Friel, and animator Jess Deacon.
