At one point in our lives, we all love to color - and for some of us whose love of coloring things go beyond coloring books, artist Jon Burgerman has made this wonderful thing: the color-in wallpaper!
Link - via RuebenMiller
Original post by Alex
How do you get your cables from one side of the bridge to another when your suspension bridge will be 560 meters above the river? The Siduhe Grand Bridge in China is nearing completion after four years of construction.
previous solutions have included: attaching the cable to a kite and flying it over (e.g. niagara falls suspension bridge), carrying one end by helicopter (e.g. akashi kaikyo bridge) and floating one end on a boat (e.g. brooklyn bridge). the brains behind the siduhe bridge decided to ignore all those options and break another record instead. they attached the 3200ft cables to rockets and accurately fired them over the valley, becoming the first people to do so.
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Original post by Miss Cellania
Can there be anything more boring than drain pipes? Well, not these: deputy dog blog has a few photos of the neatest drain pipes around the world.
This one to the left is Buster Simpson’s Downspout Planter System in Seattle, Washington.
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Original post by Alex
This is not your father’s formaldehyde-filled FEMA trailer … Artist Paul Villinski gutted a 30-foot Gulfstream "Cavalier" trailer of its toxic materials and rebuilt it into Emergency Response Studio, a "green" artist’s studio complete with solar panels and micro-wind turbine!
The studio is entirely powered by a 1.6 kilowatt photo-voltaic solar system featuring an array of nine large solar panels which tilt upward from the trailer’s roof to face the sun. Additional power comes from a micro-wind turbine spinning atop a 40-foot high aluminum mast. Eight large batteries, each weighing as much as an average man, store this power and are seen underfoot through a clear Lucite floor section as one steps into the trailer. A large wall section cranks down to become a deck, a ten-foot, geodesic skylight provides daylight and expansive headroom in the work area, and a thirteen-foot wall section has shed its aluminum siding in favor of […]
Original post by Alex
Now that is an awesome staircase! The creative "floating" stairs are designed by Florence architect Guido Ciompi for The Gray Hotel in Milan, Italy. The Contemporist Blog has more: Link - via stair porn (SFW actually, the blog features a lot of wonderful stairs)
Original post by Alex
Our pal WebUrbanist blog has a really neat post about 42 of the most fantastic prefab architecture and flat pack furniture designs. These aren’t your usual IKEA furniture, folks - check it out: Link
Original post by Alex
Check out this large collection of interesting bus stops all over the world, Some have whimsical touches, some are covered with art, some are designed to surprise you, and some are interesting in their decline. The bus stop shown is in Curitiba, Brazil. Passengers pay when entering the bus stop, then go directly from the tube into the bus! Link -Thanks, Jon Jason!
Original post by Miss Cellania
