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Famous for the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Canadian Douglas Coupland resumed his work in visual arts in 2000, following a 10 year hiatus that coincided with his international literary fame. A recent edition to his body of work is this beautiful ‘digitised’ sculpture of a killer whale that is now a resident of Vancouver’s Convention Centre. Imposing, unique and decidedly post-modern, the metal structure with it’s night time illumination is a dazzling new icon for Vancouver’s charming harbour….

like the contemporary style of the waterhouse, designed by shanghai-based neri + hu design and research office.

Fifty years ago, Verner Panton designed the first single mold plastic chair with a curvaceous profile called the Panton chair. Since then it has become one of the most recognizable and classic designs to date. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic design, Vitra UKheld a design competition among its clients to customize a Panton chair. The only criteria was that the finished product must be movable by one man.

Judging the competition were Terence Conran, Kevin McCloud and Charles Saatchi. The 31 entrants produced unique and diverse results ranging from the understated to the dramatic, making it difficult to decide on a winner. However, ultimately the judges awarded the first place to Jump Studios, an architecture and design company based in London. Their design (above) was a cat’s cradle that takes on the curvy shape of the original.

Taking second place was Ben Adams Architects, who created holes on the surface, creating a delicate, lace-like pattern.

Maris Interiors LLP took third. They sliced up the Panton chair to make a sculptural structure that resembles a skeleton.

The winners were announced at an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery on July 1, 2010 and sold in an auction in aid of Shelter.

See all 31 chairs on Vitra’s Facebook page.

Photos by  Nicole Bachmann.

Students of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University have designed a solar powered house responsive to both user needs and environmental conditions. The open plan house called the LUMENHAUS combines flexible architectural design with passive energy systems and smart appliances to balance comfort with energy efficiency.

Now, I am sure that most of you out there know that there are 1001 ways to store your Porsche, but few are as stylish as this storage solution brought to the world by Cardok.  The Porsche Garden was part of the Royal Horticultural Society Show at Hampton Court back in July of 2008.  This stylish automobile storage system (or off-street parking solution) was part of Flemond Warland’s garden design installation which won Gold.  As architect’s we can’t help but think how great this solution is for off-street parking, especially when you have limited space (like in London, UK) and can enhance your curb-side appeal.  You may want to consider tucking away your daily driver and floating your Porsche garden-side since few things could be more picturesque (at least in our opinion).

Woods Bagot New York has proposed a sustainable building system that reimagines and revitalises urban voids such as stalled construction sites that now litter our architectural world as 100% recyclable event catalysts, high performance inflatable ‘Icebergs’.

Ingenious.

Here’s a look at the new first-class cabin of Lufthansa’s new A380 planes by London industrial designers Priestmangoode.

The new designs were unveiled today in Frankfurt and feature leather, suede, wood and marble-effect laminate.

Priestmangoode have also designed new business and economy class cabins, to be retrofitted across all Lufthansa long-haul flights from next year.

Barcelona’s new wholesale flower market — mercabarna-flor — near the barcelona international airport was designed by willy muller architects.

via: willy-muller

Designed by architect yasuhiro yamashita / photography by jimmy cohrssen