Scandinavian web shops

 

: : these are currently my two favorite Swedish/Scandinavian web shops, offering a wide array of products from the best of Scandinavian design .

.Swedishness. I came across just recently, I love the layout of their shop that allows you to browse products without having to navigate through categories necessarily. It's a much more visual way of navigating. And I appreciate their selection of very unique and recent Scandinavian design products. They carry several items that I have been looking for for a long time.

.Huset. has a great collection of everything from housewares to clothing. I particularly like their coffee& tea category since I've started collecting coffee and tea cups in Swedish vintage patterns.

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Packaged cardboard structure

Artists from london, Miwa Takabayashi has designed this, who let loose with origami, and cardboard structure 10kaki. The results of this work have shown at The Mall in Chequers shopping Center in Maidstoneinside two years ago.

Float high design bed

This is an environmentally friendly mattress with attractive appearance. Many furniture manufacturers sell this bed with designs such as Float with a price of $ 25,000 along with the mattress. The bed was designed by David Trubridge, designers from New Zealand.

Float is the origin of New Zealand crafts, are made of a waterproof timber and also accompanied Acrylic fabric to encase the mattress base.

Ascension: Crane based from origami

This work is made by the LA-based Collective Crimson.Ascension is a giant origami crane that will be installed at the entrance to this year's Coachella Music Festival.

crane was made of modular aluminum tubes and Textilene - a cloth mesh. and stands firmly with a wingspan 45 meters 150 feet, features multi-color LED light that gets power from two photovoltaic station nearb

Modular Cardboard Building System based on origami

This Bloxes creating origami structure is strong enough so that all arrangements can stand on and assemble without tools.
How to origami architecture menyusunya is mixing with the new brand system Bloxes with pieces of cardboard two-dimensional structures with well-organized and robust

Economy origami

Wishlist item no. 3 IKEA PS SVARVA lamp

: : love the quirkiness and the character of .this lamp.

wishlist item no.4

: : I found this beautiful tray by designer Maria Holmer Dahlgren on .from Sthlm. I'm so disapointed that it's already sold out. I need to be checking their site more frequently. Hopefully I can find it somewhere in Sweden though. I think it would be the perfect breakfast tray for bringing my breakfast with me out on the balcony.

Kerja Solar City Tower

Solar City Tower, which will be located on the coast of Rio, designed by Zurich-based RAFAA Architecture & Design for 2016 Olympic Games Rio. The Solar City Tower features a large solar systems to generate electricity during the day and pumped water storage systems to generate power at night. RAFAA purpose is that a symbolic tower like this could be used as a starting point for the global green movement and help create more sustainable Olympics in 2016.

IKEA fest (party)

: : my lovely friend .erica. is celebrating her birthday this weekend (Grattis på födelsedagen! Happy birthday!) and got in the mood to throw a party when she found this IKEA website focused on different party decoration themes. I love how they created drastically different themes and put their own products in context. And I am completely in love with the white .PS Svarva floor lamp. in the second photo. It's going to have to go on my wishlist. Happy Friday!

Gotland house

: : Beautiful traditional Swedish country home on the island of Gotland off the Swedish east coast. Found via .husligheter. Such soft, welcoming floors and I really appreciate the simplicity of the interiors. Wonderful!

Minimalist Design House with Black Parallel concrete walls

Wilson House, is a Minimalist Design House with Black Parallel concrete walls, designed by Denton Corker Marshall. Yarra Valley is located in north-east Melbourne.Two thin rectangular sheet - roof and floor - lying on a sloping hill above the vineyards that stretch on the main road. Land of black metal plates supported by a series of parallel concrete walls perpendicular black pigmented. One end is based on a hill, the other cantilevers 11 feet beyond the retaining wall. plaque hangs above the roof, separated by full height windows to the front and end, and returned with two screws that attach to the length of the green between the plates. Each dish is 50 meters long and 11m wide. their uniqueness and clarity of the collar is strengthened by -2 m depth on the front and rear and 5 feet on the overhang projection - exterior wall. Cover plates supported by steel columns inside.

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The new storefront

Standard, multidisciplinary Los Angeles-based architecture and design practice, has completed the task of retail, shop online store ships for couture clothes spinning (rotating).

The new storefront, the first ever retail space ranges's brick-and-mortar, is understood as a high fashion gallery that also functions as a flexible space and a purpose for art, fashion and creative activities.

"For retail rotates's debut, our design needed to meet the needs of our clients from both functional and symbolic perspective," said Silvia Kuhle, Standards Partners. "As a young company made a significant leap into the next phase of its development, turning requires a comfortable space will feature changing the brand of their choice while also incorporate couture retailers rose from cyberspace into the real world of fashion destination."

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All photos by Benny Chan

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Bottle House from Indonesia

This Bottle house is belong to Ridwan Kamil

Earthship house

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This house made of tires, bottles and beer cans pop.
• It has two bedrooms, bathroom and a hallway greenhouse.
• have a system of recycling gray water.
• Having a reservoir buried in the soil that holds up to 6000 gallons of water.
• have the space to change the battery into household current.
• This house does not have equipment such as microwave or electric mixer.
• Having a well-insulated refrigerator that runs on 24-volt direct current.
You can call it an Earthship, which is owned by Scott Elder and Karla Lund and built by the garbage warrior with 12 people and several volunteers. is the latest prototype from earthship built by the Taos, NM and architect Michael Reynolds (the garbage warrior). This name was given to him in the documentary, which describes the approach to housing.
Adobe wall in the master bedroom, provides a good background also hides in closet, and interior walls made of adobe mud mixed with straw and glue. This house was built in just eight weeks, using the tires, pop cans and beer bottles, and united by Reynolds, crew and some volunteers "650 tires to make bricks bonded steel" empty soda. pop cans and beer bottles cemented together, which is then covered with adobe mud to form the interior walls of homes that are environmentally friendly.

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Bolivian bottle house

Bolivian bottle house.Some young environmental activists in Bolivia to collect about 25,000 plastic bottles and build a house from the bottle within six months. Filling the bottles with sand and reinforced with steel and cement, which creates a strong wall. The first bottle of the house is completed in Warnes, in the eastern province of Santa Cruz. TSB fanatical group plans to build ten houses again.Bolivian bottle house

Bottle House pada Seattle’s Music and Art Festival

A translucent sun dome is made of hundreds of empty plastic bottle recycling is proof positive of the artist Jasmine Zimmerman's. Not like home, the dome of the sun will grow vegetation. After the festival ends, this house will be traveling to various places.

Alfredo Santa House

Alfredo Santa Cruz house to seek support for his family to make his dream house. Not satisfied with the result, it offers a 'free course of construction with recycled materials (by paying only for the cost of travel and lodging)' so that others can follow what has been executed perfectly. yes this really noble people,

Serbian House take in 13,500 of them

Tomislav Radovanovic, professor of mathematics from the central Serbian town of Kragujevac, has created an area of 60sq meters house. Worked for five years, Radovanovic use plastic bottles as the majority of the construction. only the concrete foundation

Serbian House take in 13,500 of them

Mexican House made frm bottle and glass

Mexican House made frm bottle and glass such an extrentic house designmade from glassesand bottle here are

New Schoolhouse In Guatemala

6,000 reuse plastic bottles to make an innovative New Schoolhouse In Guatemala . Laura Kutner volunteers from the Peace Corps uses plastic waste as construction materials and plastic bottles filled with shopping bags, chip bags, and other waste. Truly Inspiring and innovative