3D-printed objects seem to be all the rage these days. You can 3D print almost anything from toys to accessories, bike saddles, furniture, and even shoes. Made to order, a pair of 3D printed sneakers can offer ergonomics that you don’t normally get from common footwear.
Even a pair of boards taken from two logs of the same species may not look exactly alike. That is because color, texture, and grain, all come into play for a species’ visual appeal. Product designers experiment with new methods to beautifully embellish wooden materials using this peculiar quality of wood grain.
Music and body movements have a deeply intertwined history, going through years hand in hand. But what if you could literally wear music – or even convert your body movements into musical symphonies?
These artists and artisans know how to satisfy sugar craving. Although their pieces are ephemeral and not created to last, they are literally what one calls an eye candy.
A data centre is a facility that centralizes an organization’s shared IT operations and equipment for the purposes of storing, processing, and disseminating data and applications. Though we, as users, often do not have an idea where our data are stored, data centres are utterly integral to modern society, emerging as a crucial piece of infrastructure and industrial architecture. Contemporary data centre architecture comprises colossal structures, shaped by the need to provide space for thousands of pieces of equipment, together with the security and cooling requirements. Engineering sustainable and efficient data centres is the next design frontier for architects worldwide.
When you think of furniture, you think of pieces made using the most traditional materials. We are conditioned to associate furniture primarily with wood, plastic, and metal. In the meantime, product designers explore the potential of cardboard as a material for short-use furniture, creating designs that are light, portable, and easy to assemble.
It takes a long time for a tree to grow, but every day, a lot of trees are cut down to clear the lot so new buildings can be erected. Creative and environmentally conscious architects take the existing trees into account when designing a new home, thus saving trees and helping preserve nature and our oxygen supply.
The unfortunate reality of urbanization is the lack of trees – more often than not they come in the way of urban development and fall victim to it. However, sparing them helps to preserve nature and our oxygen supply, as well as our mental health. That is why, instead of getting rid of the issue, creative architects find ways to build around it. We have selected a few great examples how a tree melds into the house, or the other way round, as a nice blend of architecture and nature.
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has returned to the California desert after a two-year break, with immersive installations by international architects, artists, and designers, responding to the unique topography and biodiversity of the desert. Through explorations of scale, light, sound, and colors, the installations deal with the global themes such as connectedness, environmental sustainability, immigration, social behavior and architecture, pop culture, and the community.
“Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that’s life-enhancing is worth doing,” wrote the world’s famous science fiction author Ray Bradbury. Hoping that going to space will soon just be another option people will pick for their vacation, designers cooperate with space companies to develop spaceships and space hotels that will make the dream of space tourism come true.
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