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Hiding the Buddha – an audacious tale for our times.
August 15, 2017
Let me tell you a story: Just outside of Sapporo, Japan there was a Buddha on a hill, it had been there for 15 years and although it was impressive (all 1500 tons of it) it just sat on the hill. That’s fine for a building but a statue of
Clever Furniture that assembles in under 3 minutes, and lasts a lifetime
August 28, 2015
Such clever furniture, yes this furniture comes in the boxes above which are small enough to ship by UPS or FedEx and therefore have lower shipping costs. The pieces are built to last a lifetime and easy to unpack, repack, move and unpack again. This all looks pretty cool. The
Let’s make a greenhouse into a coffee shop… in Southern Mississippi (Ideas that don’t work on paper but do in real life)
July 10, 2015
Whenever I travel I like to seek out the quirky places where I know I will feel more at home. Yesterday in Ocean Springs, MS I came across a coffee shop that used to be a greenhouse. Think about that for a moment… Let’s take an area that is naturally
An indoor beach experience… at a museum
July 08, 2015
If you are anywhere near Washington DC get yourself to the The National Building Museum to see this. A beach, created by nearly 1 million translucent balls. From Brooklyn based studio, Snarkitecture (maybe the best name ever) this installation creates a summer experience with a difference. Visitors are invited to
See the rise of the New York skyline – from an elevator
April 22, 2015
This is such a stunning idea that has been beautifully executed – I have watched it at least twenty times so far so that I can notice different buildings as they grow (or disappear). The elevator in the new One World Observatory takes you on a visual journey as you