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The Personal Sky Garage
11:00AM Andi Wang | The En Suit Sky Garage, a personal elevator for your car, is pretty damn cool. More »
Design
Swanky In-Floor Kasch Tubs Makes Your Crib MTV-Worthy
10:20AM Gizmodo US Edition | I’m pretty content with my lot in life, but these bathtubs from Kasch make me wish I was filthy, stinking rich. I’d just need champagne to complete the elitism and I’m set. Take that, Posh! More »
Press
My House Is a Mess
11:20AM Brian Lam | Apartment therapy’s Unplggd did a post about my working habits and work place. How nice of them! [Unplggd] More »
Design
Eco-Neighbuzz Apartment Buzzer Converts Your Building Into a Local Facebook Directory
9:38PM Jesus Diaz | Door buzzers/intercoms are one of those fugly things in your house that nobody pays attention to. Which is precisely the contrary of this Eco-Neighbuzz, a beautiful intercom that allows you to exchange messages with neighbours. More »
Design
Hong Kong Architect Turns 344-Square-Foot Space into Ultimate Transformer Apartment
3:40PM Elaine Chow | Hong Kong architect and technophile Gary Chang has the most amazing apartment. His 344-square-foot space can be shifted into at least 24 different layouts, using a funhouse’s worth of sliding walls and detachable shelving. More »
Home
Armoire Kitchen Is Everything You Need, Minus Cooking Lessons
4:21AM Mark Wilson | While the average American kitchen has expanded to be a stainless steel and granite-clad football stadium, the Armoire Kitchen is refreshingly simplistic. More »
Home
Foldable Kitchens, Offices and Bedrooms Optimise Tiny Living Spaces
5:15PM Gizmodo US Edition | In case you’re one of those poor souls residing in a room the size of someone’s walk-in closet, here’s a sweet innovation from the Land of Lack-of-Space, Japan. The Kenchikukagu, designed by Toshihiko Suzuki for Atelier OPA, is a series of “rooms” that can be folded and wheeled away for easy storage. The line features a kitchen, a bedroom and an office, and costs about $7,500 per unit on Amazon Japan. Granted, I don’t live in Tokyo, but if my apartment is too small to fit my bed and kitchen in it at the same time, I’d probably just move somewhere else. [Kenchikukagu via Complex] More »
Design
Walter Towers Are a Giant Wavy W, Make Us Seasick
1:00AM Matt Buchanan | Combining the tradition of building towers in clusters with the coldly rational American skyscraper, apparently you wind up with a tower that has been cut, twirled and splayed apart, resulting in a giant undulating W that’s a single, continuous building masquerading as four wavy towers. That’s the theory behind Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group’s latest project in Prague, Walter Towers, anyway. It kinda makes me seasick thinking about it, but you can get a better idea of how this monument to the most regal letter of the alphabet works in the pictures below. More »
Design
Staggered Skyscraper Planned for NYC Looks Like an Etch-a-Sketch Disaster
2:20AM Sean Fallon | Is it just me, or does this high-rise set to go up at 23 East 22nd Street in NYC look like it was designed on an Etch-a-Sketch by a dude who had too much coffee? Believe it or not, 18 families will undoubtedly pay a fortune to live here when the OMA designed project is completed in 2010. While the base of the structure appears to be braced by the surrounding buildings, I can’t help but worry that this thing will topple over in a stiff breeze. [OMA via Dezeen] galleryPost('staggeredbuilding', 3, ''); More »
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