Design

October 3, 2013

Translucent Home Built Around a Tree in a Kazakh Forest

Located in a forest on the mountains of Almaty in Kazakhstan, architect Aibek Almasov of A.Masow Design Studio has designed a concept for a modern spiritual retreat. The project, known as Tree in the house, presents a cylindrical, four-story glass space featuring an encased tree in the center. A winding white staircase allows visitors who enter the “tree house” to ascend the towering space, spiraling upward around the centric tree.

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September 21, 2013

Interactive Installation Invites Visitors to Manipulate Clouds

Cloud Pink is an interactive installation by Seoul-based creative Everyware (formed by Hyunwoo Bang and Yunsil Heo) that allows the public to live out their childhood dreams of touching and manipulating clouds. The immersive piece features a fabric screen that invites visitors to poke and prod the material from below, thereby causing a visual reaction in the projected simulation of wafting pink clouds.

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August 26, 2013

Melbourne’s Sleek Transportation Center by Zaha Hadid

World-renowned architect Zaha Hadid is working on a joint proposal with Brisbane-based firm Donovan Hill for Melbourne's Flinders St. Station competition. The design concept for the proposal is a modern elongated form that also pays tribute to the building's historic past. Hadid's main goal with this project is to create not only a train station but a multipurpose transportation center that will serve as a landmark for Melbourne's skyline.

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August 7, 2013

The Enormous Potential of Fiber Optic Art

Lyn Godley, a designer and artist currently based in Philadelphia, is working on a very unique installation. It's a series of fiber optic artwork that has a great potential for possible use in healthcare settings. The pieces are all nature-based images that have been drawn over with charcoal and then outfitted with hundreds of fiber optics to create unique and beautiful visuals. However, aesthetics are only a small part of this project.

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