Kenya Hara, the design director of Muji, got 12 big name architects to design structures for dogs that would improve both canine and human well-being. The blueprints of the designed dog habitats are available for a free download. People can also share their own designs. Find out more at the brilliant Architecture for dogs webpage.
Norwegian architect Kjetil T. Thorsen of Snøhetta explains the landscape-inspired ideas behind some of their major projects. Projects featured in the video are: Eggum Tourist Route, Norway, 2007. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Brunei, 2011. Annecy Conference Center, France, in progress. Norweigan Wild Reindeer Cene pavillion, Norway 2011 King Abdulazis Center for World Culture, Saudi Arabia, in progress New Norweigan National Opera and Ballet, Norway 2008 Lascaux Caves, France 2012 Alexandria Library, Egypt, 2001 National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavillion, USA 2011 Sultanate of Oman, Mutrah Fish Market, in progress Ras al-Khaimah-Gateway Project, United Aab Emirates, in progress Watch and learn!
Old style charter cruises on lake Näsijärvi on board steamship Näsijärvi II
“We’re stealing the future, selling it today and calling it GDP” –Paul Hawken
We wish all of you a happy Midsummer! Enjoy the best time of the year!
Brickstarter the book by Bryan Boyer and Dan Hill is out now. Brickstarter was the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra’s project that collected and analyzed information about 21st century social services. Brickstarter also wanted to provide a platform for citizens to suggest and build possibilities into proposals and further into projects. The book gathers the project data, analysis and reflection into a coherent and well written package. Our project Mieluisa Tampere is also mentioned as an example project. “Brickstarter the book contains 80 dense pages filled with the research presented here, refined and reformatted, as well as entirely new essays and illustrations. This book is a primer for people working on problems at the intersection of crowdfunding/sourcing, social media, urban planning and decision-making. So in other words, it’s about contemporary cities and how we might create new platforms to enable more effective debate about the future of our shared spaces.” – Brickstarter.org The […]
The brilliant + POOL project has launched a Kickstarter Campaign take the NYC’s coolest future swimming spot one step closer to reality. The team is asking for your help to be able to build a 35′ x 35′ (11 x 11 m) Float Lab on the East River this August. They want to test the water filtration technologies that they would use in the floating pool. The kickstarter campaign is called Tile by Tile: To make the donations more interesting, you can buy yourself a tile, with a personal engraving, that will actually end up being a part of the final + POOL slated to open in 2016. So essentially you are buying yourself a piece of a giant swimming pool in a premium location while also helping to clean up our environment. Check out more information on the campaign page and pledge to make this ingenious project become reality.
We spotted this lush rooftop garden by Biolan at Kolmen Sepän Aukio in Helsinki. There appears to be a nice array of useful plants growing on small the roof of the kiosk. Wish there were more roof gardens like this in Finland. Do you know who will harvest the crop of this garden?
