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Making Carmel Place Modular Micro Apartments

This beautiful video by Antti T Seppänen / Oiva-filmi shows the making of Carmel Place modular micro apartments building in NYC by nArchitects. The firm’s entry My Micro NY was the winner of New York City sponsored adAPT NYC competition in 2012. This summer the residents moved into the completed building.

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Is This for Real? featured on Yle

Yle has posted an article about Is This for Real? / Onko totta? -project. Some of the utopian ideas we presented at the Tampere Art Museum 80th Anniversary Jubilee Exhibition are actually becoming reality, can you guess which? The story also features the video used in the installation.

Warka Water – Catching drinkable water from air

This great biomimetic water harvesting installation is inspired by Namibian fog-basking beetles, Ethiopian basket-weaving traditions Warka trees. It is made of bamboo, bioplastic and fiber ropes and is easy to build with simple tools. For more information, visit the project’s web page warkawater.it

BIG & Heatherwick Studio: Google’s California HQ

BIG and Heatherwick Studio have joined forces to design new California headquarters for Google. It will be interesting to see how this Frei Otto meets the Eden Project meets Under the Dome will come to life. It will be quite a challenge to turn vast parking lots and mundane business parks into an ecological, inspiring and flexible neighbourhood as described in the video. It is interesting how different headquarters designs of the contemporary giants are: Facebook+Gehry, Apple+Foster and now Google+BIG&HS are headed into totally different directions with their designs. They share very similar ideas about an ecological campus of the future, but the approach and execution are quite different. Ultimately time will tell which vision transforms into reality the best. Different as they are, certainly all of these companies have the resources to make it work. Let’s just wait and see!

The Best Tall Building Worldwide 2014 – One Central Park

The fabulous One Central Park has been selected as the Best Tall Building Worldwide by the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, PTW Architects and Patrick Blanc, this Sydney high-rise hybrid boasts beautiful, large green walls. The building also has an array of motorised mirrors to direct light to the park that would otherwise be overshadowed by the building. Wow!