Well now it’s done, the annual spring cleaning. It is no fun job to do but it has to be done and someone has to do it. Now I have taken all the seedling out (almost) and left in the greenhouse are the tomatoes and peppers. A few Geraniums, Auriculas and Roses just to add [...]

i’m editing and coding today’s coverage of bklyn designs (which was great this year!) but i wanted to kick things off this morning with this beautiful new concrete flooring from san francisco’s trasnparent house team. because concrete flooring has become popular in modern homes, the transparent house team decided to create an application that would [...]

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts are pleased to announce the recipients of the Governor General’s Medals in Architecture for 2008.“The creations of the twelve recipients of the Governor General’s Medal in Architecture make us appreciate the degree to which Canadian architects have transformed the places where [...]

Magma was established in 2003 by Martin Ostermann and Lena Kleinheinz. The Ohio native Ostermann is a former senior architect at Studio Daniel Libeskind. The Denmark-born Kleinheinz is an exhibition designer. Magma is known for its inventive, experimental and experiential approaches to architectural work.
The main feature of Berlin’s Magma Architecture is an alarmingly orange flexible [...]

The Minikitchen by Boffi is a re-issue of the visionary Minikitchen by Joe Colombo, a mobile kitchen block of only half a cubic meter containing the main functions of a kitchen. A 1960’s vision for the compact kitchen…Perfect for small houses, the Minikitchen can be described as a large trolley with an enclosed hob unit, [...]

Jar Tops, a student project by designer Jorre van Ast of OKAYstudio, have been put into production by Dutch kitchenware manufacturers Royal VKB.
The collection consists of a range of tops that screw onto reused jars, turning them into containers, jugs, shakers and more.The set includes adaptations for a sugar pot, milk jug, chocolate sprinkler, oil [...]

Italian architects Iosa Ghini Associati have designed four houses for a new residential district near Nicosia, Cyprus.The family houses, to be built by developer Full Circle, incorporate solar panels and rainwater recycling.
The following text is from Iosa Ghini Associati:–
The project started with the aim of creating a new residential area alongside Pedieos river, near Nicosia, [...]