Steeped in the ancient history seeping from the traditional building it inhabits, and the piping hot tea it distributes, the Tea House in the Hutong district in Beijing is something truly special. Continue reading
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The Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mining Museum
The Sterling Hill Mining Museum in New Jersey, United States, is known for its variety of immersive and educational exhibits, but is best known for its massive collection of fluorescent minerals. Continue reading
Mushroom Lamps Embedded with LEDs on Driftwood
Japanese artist Yukio Takano has a knack for recreating the delicate properties of mushrooms with dyed resins illuminated from the inside with hidden LED lights. Continue reading
Albertinum Museum, Dresden, Germany
The new depot building is designed as a sort of enclosing roof, a Noah’s Ark on stilts, with the added advantage did it will forever be beyond the reach of floods. Continue reading
Harbin Opera House
MAD Architects unveils the completed Harbin Opera House, located in the Northern Chinese city of Harbin. In 2010, MAD won the international open competition for Harbin Cultural Island, a master plan for an opera house, a cultural center, and the surrounding wetland landscape along Harbin’s Songhua River. Continue reading
A Caravan Into The Sky
French artist Benedetto Bufalino, known for his amusing urban interventions, has sent a caravan into the sky.
‘La Caravane dans le Ciel’, as the work is called in French, takes the form of a trailer set on top of a sky jack, which pushes the caravan up into the clouds. In a statement about the work, Bufalino says: Continue reading
Quantum Product Design Museum
The museum and exhibition center is designed to host the forefront in product design.
Vasil Velchev is an electrical engineer with more than ten years of experience as a graphic designer. Product design for him started as a hobby, but after some worldwide publications, he started to believe in his designs and to take it more seriously. Continue reading