The Bufet Filcowy sideboard has some 4000 holes laid out dot-matrix style. Felt pegs of any hue (not unlike cigarette filters) can be arranged into infinite patterns.
Prefab is taking center stage this summer at The Museum of Modern Art in NYC with the Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibit opening on July 20th.
Designed by Melbourne-based Phooey Architects, Skinners Playground puts four discarded shipping containers to use as the primary spaces for childhood adventures.
A new terminal at Shenzen Bao’an International Airport in China positioned as a gateway to China. Designed by architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, the terminal will have an incredible double skin canopy intended to let patterned natural light into the space.
The Lilypad, by Vincent Callebaut, is a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees.
A research project from architect Phu Hoang Office seeks to address site specific issues in the Dead Sea with a series of artificial islands that would provide recreation, tourist attractions, renewable energy, and create fresh water.
The Lumeneo Smera is a two seat, four wheel electric vehicle that is narrow enough to maneuver as a motorcycle and taking thin to a new transportation extreme.
The cutting-edge green home Orchid House, one of the key homes on a project to turn a disused gravel pit into a beautiful 450-acre nature reserve, has sold for a record-breaking £7.2million.
Krejci’s ‘Let’s Grow Some Balls!’ chair is both a planter and chair all in one. A garden chair that IS the garden, users are brought closer to nature by being surrounded with it.
Harvard Graduate School of Design students Kiduck Kim and Christian Stayner have conceived of a Floating City for New Orleans that will “rise safely in an Archimedean liquid landscape.”
Using planilum technology, these plates are the world’s first active light-emitting glass. Incorporated into shelves and tables, the technology provides beautiful, understated lighting for homes and offices.
In a stunning example of biomimicry, Scottish architecture firm ZM Architecture have come up with a brilliant scheme to provide more solar power to the city of Glasgow - Solar Lily Pads!
Conceived by three Venetian architects for a charity competition, the Grass-On Lamp by ITlab is made entirely of recycled materials, including the synthetic grass, and completely recyclable.
Stephan Siepermann’s Leaft lamps from Milan. Each luminescent leaf is composed of recycled (or ‘upcycled’) plastic casts that wind together into a binding branch.
TRØKK16 are turning heads left and right at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair with an elegantly engineered line of prototypes including the graceful Frøy Chair - a modern update on the side chair making use of natural materials.
Visually stunning ceramic work of Dutch designer, Anouk Omlo. Her latest ‘Helica Series’ is totally emblematic of current (bio)rhythms in design and the budding forms taking shape in our eco-imaginations.
This futuristic architectural design is shortlisted in an international contest to create a new observatory in Liverpool, England, reminding us that space-age proposals have a great way of stirring the imagination.
Optimizing passive solar gain and using untreated local wood are just a few of the ways that this sustainable home on Lake Laka in Poland has earned the moniker CO2 saver.
...string of solar powered, wind-lit LED lights. This innovative design for enchanting outdoor lighting from Yoshihiro Shimomura, taps into the sun’s energy to light up summer nights.
It is not often that an architecture master reinvents himself, but that is precisely what Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry has done. Gehry has revealed the first post post-modern architectural work, the New Gehry Residence.
A stunning new residential development planned for the Putrajaya waterfront in Malaysia - unique, marine-inspired structures arranged in a permeable, radiating block of bioclimatic architecture.
The answer to all of our zero-energy prefab dreams - the new ZeroHouse™. Completely self-sustaining, this prefabricated house generates its own power, collects its own water, processes its own waste and is 100% automatic.
The new Miami Art Museum from Herzog & de Meuron can only be described as the modern interpretation of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon - an imaginative structure that bridges urban spaces, climates and cultures.
Andre Hodgskin’s newest design, the iPAD™, brings a stylish, versatile option to the prefab world with a bevy of possible configurations, finishes and even a choice in how you’d like it to arrive.
