Some pretty amazing and very sculptural public furniture using unexpected materials..

OnSite Studio, is a furniture design-studio based in Marseille - presenting ONSITE FURNITURE and INSTALLATION projects by Belgian designer Sebastien Wierinck

Architects, builders, environmental designers, furniture designers. "Hand-Built Environments" are hard to come by these days.

Hoping to get to the Eliphante event this Saturday in Cottonwood, a neighboring community of my new home town of Sedona Arizona. I've been hearing about this space for a while, if by some strange chance you are in the area, come check it out this Saturday from 11am to 8pm!
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Eliphante is a Magical 3-acre Artistic Destination in Cornville Arizona built of natural, found and repurposed materials.

This is the way to recycle a building. Love this live/work space!

An abandoned cement factory that dates from the first period of the industrialization of Barcelona was transformed into a workspace and residence for Spanish Architect Ricardo Bofill. Discover the unique elements of The Cement Factory now @ Yatzer!

Just when you thought Bjarke Ingels had conquered every last corner of his native Copenhagen, the 36-year-old starchitect has gone and unveiled plans for yet another building on home turf, this one even wilder than the last: It’s an energy plant that doubles as a downhill ski resort.

That looks pretty awesome. Just hope everyone makes it around that turn.

Beautiful 3D renderings of futuristic buildings and environments from French firm Luxigon.

This long narrow house in Okinawa, Japan, by Japanese studio Shinichi Ogawa & Associates is divided lengthways into a courtyard and living space. Called Minimalist House, the property is surrounded by four solid walls and internally divided into three strips.

It really is all you need. Wonder what it would feel like after living in it for a couple months.

The world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants is looking to revamp their menus, store design, and ordering experience.  With a juicy budget of $2.4 billion, in 2011 McDonalds is set to rebuild 400 ‘domestic outposts’, refurbish 1,600 existing restaurants and create an extra 1000 to boot.

While this sounds like an incredible feat, I wonder if it actually means that McDonalds will be changing the quality of their food, food sourcing and business practices or if they're just using design to pull in people that wouldn't usually wouldn't be caught dead there. I'd like to think the former is the case, but feel as thought it will probably be the latter.