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Rem Koolhaas Wins Mies van der Rohe Award
The Netherlands Embassy Berlin by OMA / Rem Koolhaas & Ellen van Loon Wins European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2005. In a press conference held today at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, Ján Figel’, the European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism read more.. Does Cherenkov radiation, neutrino interaction and proton decay make you HOT & BOTHERED?
Super-K is located 1,000 m underground in the Mozumi Mine (Kamioka Mining and Smelting Co.) in Hida city (formerly Kamioka town), Gifu, Japan. It consists of 50,000 tons of pure water surrounded by about 11,200 photomultiplier tubes. The cylindrical structure is 41.4 m tall and 39.3 m across. A neutrino interaction with the electrons or read more.. Lick The Sun (beautiful body modification)
Sydney-based digital artist Brian Walker creates scenes that meld illustration and fashion with an element of surprise. Stemming from a passion for illustration to depict his ideas and concepts of surrealist landscapes and characters, Walker first began using photography as a tool to represent ideas of the impossible within the believable context of photography. read more.. Corrugated Sound Box Room Thing
Ikea pack furniture in it. Gehry has made furniture from it. Now architects are shaping spaces with it. Is there any limit to the creative re-use of corrugated cardboard? With its unique physical consistency, its decidedly axial strength, and its deadening acoustic absorption, corrugated cardboard has many inherent qualities. As such it read more.. Wonder Woman House
The Camouflage House
Camouflage, or cryptic coloration, is something living organisms have developed over millions of years in order to remain indiscernible from the surrounding environment.
Buildings, something humans have designed and built for thousands of years, have never been indiscernible from the surrounding environment. If anything, our egotistical fascination with conquering nature has read more.. Ferrari + Shell F1
Here is a beautiful commercial for Ferrari + Shell. It takes you through some of the history of their F1 design. Please enjoy.
Cool School Design
We don’t know about you, but school wasn’t exactly the most inspiring of places. Concrete bunkers for buildings, concrete tennis courts for ‘recreation’ and food that tasted, well, like concrete. Yes, school did sound like a brutalist architects dream. But, Reynar Banham was nowhere to be seen.
This is much the same story for most schools read more.. Building Demolished from the Ground Up Looks Better than New
A 15-story office block in the heart of London is being demolished backwards in order to build a skyscraper in its place. Demolishers are working up from the ground level upwards, dismantling each floor to reveal the concrete core of the P&O building. Find out why, and the new skyscraper replacing it.
When the P&O building read more.. Clever UrbanTypography
Some great photographs of buildings that create the illusion of typography. Type the Sky by Lisa Rienermann is an alphabet formed of shapes buildings make against the sky when photographed from below. Now i hope that someone comes up with an application where you can create your name with it.
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