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• World's First Spaceport Designed, Construction Starts 2008

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:11 am

  Tags: Vehicles, Architecture, Design, Space, Spaceports, Vehicles, Virgin

  You may remember that Virgin Galactic planned to build a Spaceport in New Mexico? Well, a winning design has now been chosen, and construction on the 100,000 square-foot facility is set to start in 2008. Is it just me, or does "spaceport" sound a little bit too Sci-Fi?

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• Habitat 67

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:15 pm

  Tags: International, Architecture, Design

  Part of me likes the original concept behind this, but in certain angles it's just butt-ugly.It reminds me of the tenement housing in Brazil.

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• Survival Cocoon Lets you Hang out in Emergencies

  Published: September 12, 2007, 6:36 am

  Tags: Random Stuff, Architecture, Design, Outdoor

  Industrial designer John Moriarty has come up with the Cocoon, a portable hanging emergency shelter that you sling from a tree and sit in, should you get into difficulties in the great outdoors. It'll keep you warm and dry, not to mention turn you into a laughing-stock when the park ranger eventually finds you, swinging like a psychedelic bird

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• New Mediamesh and Illumesh Technologies Turn Entire Buildings Into LED Ads

  Published: September 17, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Screens, Ads, Architecture, Design, Giant, Led, Outdoor, Screens

  GKD Metal Fabrics, a German architecture and design company and a woven metal fabric company, respectively, have designed Mediamesh and Illumesh—an LED technology to turn regular building sides into gigantic colorful ads. These two new methods of cabling and lighting let developers place LEDs even over windows—which was verboten

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• The Soft Project

  Published: September 20, 2007, 10:53 am

  Tags: Architecture, Design, Design Interiors Art

  of Forsythe + MacAllen Design, are known for their innovative housing and living space projects. The duo created a product called ‘Soft,’ which is a product line “conceived of the desire to dynamically shape and redefine open space into more intimate and ephemeral surroundings, in a flexible and temporal way. Utilizing

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• Renzo Piano Will Light Up Our Lives

  Published: October 2, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Architecture, Design Shelter, Manhattan Hell S Kitchen Clinton, Museums Cultural

  Now that the staff of The New York Times has settled in at their flashy new headquarters overlooking Times Square, the architectural tricksters at Renzo Piano Building Workshop are about to show us some real magic. Guided by the lighting wizards at the Office for Visual Interaction, crews are busy installing lighting instruments that will make

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• Optical Illusions with Architecture

  Published: October 3, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: Optical Illusions, Buildings, Architecture, Design

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• Steven Holl Gives NYU Philosophers Something to Smile About

  Published: October 10, 2007, 2:52 pm

  Tags: Architecture, Design Shelter, Manhattan Greenwich Village

  [All photos copyright Andy Ryan] All eyes may be on Steven Holl's Towering S planned for the 30th Street Spur of the High Line, but the architect has recently—and somewhat quietly—completed another New York City project: the renovation of 3-5 Washington Place, home to NYU's Department of Philosophy. The landmarked exterior of the 1890

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• Toilet House: Toilet-Shaped House...Now That's Classy

  Published: October 11, 2007, 6:40 pm

  Tags: Architecture, Design, Sim Jae Duck, Toilet House, Toilets, World Toilet Association

  Just because you have the resources to build the world's first toilet-shaped house doesn't mean that you should. Then again, if you happen to be Sim Jae-duck, the chairman of the organizing committee of the Inaugural General Assembly of the World Toilet Association, you may have an interest in such a thing. And a guy with a title that long

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• Toilet-Shaped House... Now That's Classy

  Published: October 11, 2007, 6:40 pm

  Tags: Random Stuff, Architecture, Design, Weird

  Just because you have the resources to build the world's first toilet-shaped house doesn't mean that you should. Then again, if you happen to be Sim Jae-duck, the chairman of the organizing committee of the Inaugural General Assembly of the World Toilet Association, you may have an interest in such a thing. And a guy with a title that long

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• Pedro and Ines Bridge - Portugal

  Published: October 12, 2007, 5:24 pm

  Tags: International, Architecture, Design

  More images here.

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• Custom made wooden computer accessories

  Published: October 16, 2007, 7:22 am

  Tags: Technology Gizmos, Fascinating Weird, Art Design, Architecture, Design, Gadgets, Home Decor, Household, Lifestyle, Mouse Keyboard, Wood

  If there’s one thing computers don’t do well, it’s matching your home decor. Wood Contour may change all that. These beauties are made from one piece of wood, and you get to choose from 29 wood varieties - Mahogany, Beech , Oak, Ash , Birch and others. Hand crafted and custom made, the company guarantees that no two items

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• Coolest Prison Ever (If You're Gonna Drop Your Soap...)

  Published: October 16, 2007, 1:01 pm

  Tags: Random Stuff, Architecture, Design, Prison

  If you have criminal persuasions in life, whatever they may be, might we suggest you relocate your place of residence to Austria? The reason for this; Austria happens to be the geographic location of the most awesome (to our knowledge) prison in the world. Check out The Leoben Justice Centre, Steiermark, in the gallery below.

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• Kyoto Station is the Ultramodern Heart of Kyoto

  Published: October 18, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Random Stuff, Architecture, Design, Japan, Kyoto, Trains

  for, this marvel of modern architecture is currently celebrating only its 10th anniversary. Featuring an open-air design that allows the breeze to blow through and the sun to shine in, it's an incredible place that serves as a great welcome to this wonderful city.

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• U2 Tower?

  Published: October 31, 2007, 3:31 pm

  Tags: International, Architecture, Design

  as the cutting edge U2 design won out against several other reputable firms, including one sponsored by the band itself.The $280 million project begins next year, with construction slated for completion in

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