


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



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



Eliphante - Home
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Eliphante is a Magical 3-acre Artistic Destination in Cornville Arizona built of natural, found and repurposed materials.



A former Cement Factory is now the workspace and residence of Ricardo Bofill | Yatzer™
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!



Bjarke Ingels to Build a Combo Ski Slope and Power Plant
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.



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



SHELTER
Lloyd Kahn claims that shelter is more than a roof over your head. As the author and publisher of over a dozen books on home construction, Lloyd has been grappling with the concept of home, physically and psychically, for over five decades. Situated in the financial and housing crisis, this film profiles Lloyd's ideas on do-it-yourself construction and sustainability.
Love this guy. Gonna start looking for an empty plot of land.



Minimalist House by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates
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.



People eat with their eyes first…If you have a restaurant that is appealing, contemporary, and relevant both from the street and interior, the food tastes better.
McDonald’s 2011 $2.4 Billion Makeover
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.


