Taiwan Tower in Taichung Features Helium Balloons Instead of Elevators
The Taiwan Tower may look like a concept right now, but it won’t for long. This is one concept that, just as it was being drawn up and planned, had already been given the green light to be built into...
View ArticleExtreme Design Legacy of the River TRON-Themed Room in Ice Hotel is Awesome...
If you’re a TRON fan, then you’ve probably been pretty happy with the TRON-themed accessories that have been released the last few months. You may have even given some serious thought into buying your...
View ArticleSkyara Sells Experience
As it is the holiday season when I write this post, I suggest thinking about something like this for the person who says they want nothing, couldn’t possibly see the value in another gift, that person...
View ArticleSelf-Powered House Generates Income for You
This is a concept project that’s on its way to real reality. I say real reality because not only are there hopes to turn this project into a reality, there’s money moving towards that end. In Germany,...
View ArticleDenmark Will Build Underwater Tunnel To Germany
One of the great architectural marvels of our time has just been approved by seven out of eight parliamentary factions in Denmark. The state-owned firm Femern A/S will build a tunnel from the German...
View ArticleGenius Light Switch Design by Taewon Hwang
Have you ever walked into a house and had trouble figuring out what switch controlled which light? Designer, Taewon Hwang comes through with this delightfully intuitive light switch concept. He takes...
View ArticleeVolo 2011 Skyscraper Competition
Moving forward into the 21st century is going to take some significant changes in the way we build our cities, both here in the US, and worldwide. eVolo is an architecture and design journal focused on...
View Article100-year-old secret underwater dome is fraudster’s amazing folly
As awesome additions to your home go, a billiard room hidden under a lake – complete with Bond villain style dome – sounds like the kind of place any self-respecting geek should covet. Turns out, the...
View Article3D Print Your Next House
3D Printing has been around for a while. Until recently it’s been a technology that’s relegated to the design process, where designers are able to make plastic prototypes much more quickly. Neri Oxman...
View ArticleSteve Jobs reveals Cupertino “spaceship” campus plans [Video]
Set phasers to stunned-planning-officials. Steve Jobs has presented his plans for Apple’s new campus, describing the donut-shaped building as “a little like a spaceship landed.” The four-story facility...
View ArticleApple Shows Off New Fifth Avenue Store Rendering
A major revamp of Apple’s famous Fifth Avenue store in New York City with the 32-foot glass cube entrance has been underway since June. The $6.7 million project will keep the glass cube intact but will...
View ArticleLucasfilm Singapore getting new building in 2012 that looks like a Sandcrawler!
I think that like most Star Wars fans I have a love/hate relationship with George Lucas. He has been behind the two iconic franchises of my youth with Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Lucas has pimped Star...
View ArticleARM A7 and A15 for inexpensive, high power, low demand smartphones for everyone
Cambridge-based mobile microchip industry crunching firm ARM has announced its A7 chip and the “big.LITTLE” processing to the world this week, and you already knew that from yesterday. What you might...
View ArticleApple building new “prototype” store in Palo Alto
Apple looks to be planning a new prototype retail store that will be only a block away from one of its earliest retail locations in Palo Alto. Construction on the new 15,030 square-foot store is...
View ArticleApple Starck project bringing ‘brain with motorcycle helmet’ this summer
There’s nothing better than when a brilliant industrial designer like Philippe Starck gets the opportunity to design for a massively powerful manufacturer like Apple. This week we’re hearing from...
View ArticleProposed world’s tallest building would be 3,445 feet high
The tallest building in the world right now is the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates. With an observation deck on the 124th floor, a mosque on the 158th floor, and occupants on the 160th floor,...
View ArticleApple teases “Campus 2″ to Cupertino
The friendly neighborhood of Cupertino, California have just been sent a brochure from Apple which details their possible future structure by the name of “Apple Campus 2.” This new headquarters for...
View ArticleVITAL feel-good glass replaces pain with happy pane
Windows that make you feel happier and healthier? Working in an office might just become a more pleasurable experience if the research geeks at the German Fraunhofer institute have their way, cooking...
View ArticleApple helps tap recently discovered ancient underground stream
This week the folks at Apple have revealed that they’re bringing massive opportunity – and a renewed flow of clean water – to Crook County, Oregon. Apple has plans to move forward with a 510,000 square...
View ArticleIron Age temple discovered in Israel amid road construction
When you’re planning on building a road in Israel near Jerusalem, you have to make more preparations than just flattening the land – case in point: a 2,750 year old temple discovered before a new...
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