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Ping Pong Hotel Served Up
You know those times when architects are asked what their inspiration for a particular design or building was? Well, this isn’t one of them. It’s pretty clear what the inspiration for this hotel...
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Haiti Mountain House For Earthquake Victims
Through our Area 3 blog, we cover the charity work of our parent company Catalyst Exhibits. It is good then to be able to combine charity and design in a single story. The island nation of Haiti took...
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Rooftop Capsule: Aliens Have Landed
There are certain folk out there who, if they saw the above capsule perched on a nearby roof, would start loading the buckshot and begin herding their children into the cellar while shouting “the...
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Bill Gates to Reinvent The Toilet
The toilet may not be the most attractive topic for discussion but from a design standpoint its a classic – largely unchanged for centuries – and revolutionary in the way it improved sanitation and...
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Twin Towers Memorial Remembers
Ten years since the tragic events of 9/11, which saw the death of almost 3,000 people and the destruction of the iconic Twin Towers, the memorial for the victims will open in New York this weekend....
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Steampunk Loft Apartment Turns Back Time
Steampunk. For those adhering to the Victorian-influenced view of how the future might look, all brass and pipes and strange steam-driven machinery, Steampunk is less a design statement and more a way...
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World Record-breaking 3-D Art
With 3-D [love it or hate it] taking over your local movie theaters, it’s not surprising to it getting a boost in other art forms. We’ve all seen some 3-D artist doodling on the sidewalk at one time...
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DRU: The ‘Mad Men’ that re-branded WWII London
When your city is bombed to pieces in World War II, what do you do afterwards? In the case of London, a key part of the process was the creation of the Design Research Unit (DRU) in 1942 by the poet...
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Bomb-proof Bins Hit the Streets of London
What do you get when you cross good urban design with paranoia? Bomb-proof trash cans apparently. Believe it or not, these cool looking recycling bins have just started being deployed in London’s...
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Alpine Refuge Out on a Ledge
I’ve never been a fan of the sleeping arrangements for serious mountain climbing. The idea of dangling off a mountain face in a sleeping bag, thousands of feet in the air is just so…what’s the best...
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