architizer:

“Three Cubes Colliding,” an experimental kite made of carbon fiber, aerospace fabric and 3D-printed connectors that challenges notions of airborne architecture.

skyofthemind:

#la monte young #marian zazeela #dream house #1969

I was informed that this was depressing. That was correct. This is depressing:

The tunnel people of Las Vegas: How 1,000 live in flooded labyrinth under Sin City’s shimmering strip 

“Deep beneath Vegas’s glittering lights lies a sinister labyrinth inhabited by poisonous spiders and a man nicknamed The Troll who wields an iron bar. 

But astonishingly, the 200 miles of flood tunnels are also home to 1,000 people who eke out a living in the strip’s dark underbelly.

Some, like Steven and his girlfriend Kathryn, have furnished their home with considerable care - their 400sq ft ‘bungalow’ boasts a double bed, a wardrobe and even a bookshelf.”

adsertoris:

haru3uvvv:

Cities of the Future, Imagined By The Artist Who Created The Death Star

By Annalee Newitz

John Berkey is famous for doing concept design for the original Star Wars movie, including a breathtaking poster of the Death Star. When he wasn’t imagining space battles, he designed cities of the future - on Earth and in space.

Some of these citiscapes are incredibly rare images from Berkey that are rarely reprinted - others are iconic images of space ships that you may recognize. I also love the strange Japanese King Kong game packaging. His King Kong looks almost like he’s merging with the building he’s scaling. If you’re a fan of googie architecture, you’ll notice that his cities are all done in that futuristic style which was so popular in the 50s and 60s.

This is awesome.

proofmathisbeautiful:

architectureblog:

micasaessucasa:

Polyhedron Habitable, Relaxation and Ingenious Design

Oh and also…

monstermadeofeyes:

damienericwallace:

iwumbo:

laitetleau:(via ottomanempire, maneman)

to:

TOKYO Shinjuku (via photoidias)

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will exhibit a glass window made of 500 crystal prisms at MUSEUM. beyond museum in Seoul this May.

Called Rainbow Church, the eight metre-high installation will create rainbows within the space as the light is refracted.

The information below is from Tokujin Yoshioka:

–

Rainbow Church

The idea of this architecture project “Rainbow Church” dates back to when I was in early 20s.

When I was in France for a business trip, I went to Vence, a commune located near Nice. There, I visited the Chapelle du Rosaire, which Henri Matisse, a French painter, created in his last years. I was engrossed in the beauty of the light that the chapel created.

I experienced a space filled with the light of Matisse: Being bathed in the sunlight of the Provence, the stained glass with Matisse’s vibrant colors suffused the room with full of colors. Since then, I had been dreaming of designing an architecture where people can feel the light with all senses.

This dreaming architecture project will be realized as a concept plan at the exhibition held at MUSEUM. beyondmuseum in Seoul from May, 2010. The exhibition is planned to last until the end of June. A 8-meter-high stained glass made with approximately 500 crystal prisms will be filling the space with rainbow colors as the light shines on it.

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography - The Ruins of Detroit

unknownskywalker:

3D Printing Device Could Build Moon Base from Lunar Dust

Future astronauts might end up living in a moon base created largely from lunar dust and regolith, if a giant 3-D printing device can work on the lunar surface. The print-on-demand technology, known as D-Shape, could save on launch and transportation costs for manned missions to the moon. But the concept must first prove itself in exploratory tests funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).

D-Shape has created full-size sandstone buildings on Earth by using a 3-D printing process similar to how inkjet printers work. It adds a special inorganic binder to sand so that it can build a structure from the bottom up, one layer at a time. The device raises its printer head by just 5 to 10 millimeters for each layer, moving from side to side on horizontal beams as well as up and down on four metal frame columns.

Finished structures end made out of a marble-like material that’s superior to certain types of cement. The buildings do not require iron reinforcing. Such a concept might help future lunar colonists live off the land, as well as provide thick-walled structures that protect against solar storms or micrometeorites. D-Shape offers the added attraction of having a somewhat straightforward building process that does not require huge amounts of construction machinery or many robot laborers.

Space agencies have already begun testing other technologies meant to mine water and oxygen from the lunar regolith. NASA scientists have also played with possible recipes for a sort of lunar concrete based on moon dust.

Image: This 2-meter-tall gazebo was built with D-shape 3-D printing technology. The monolithic sandstone structure was made of about 200 thin layers and was designed to look like a micro-organism called Radiolaria. The structure in the background, overhead, is the printing device.

Source: SPACE.com

(via fuckyeahmath)

xtc:

emizok:

It was infused into his concern and his identification of his own… - but does it float

j-p-g:

Miyajima shrine tori (via Simon S.)

The photography of James D. Griffioen, about Detroit’s decay.

j-p-g:

Beijing Nightscape (via unseendesire)