Bernard Tschumi Architects won a competition to design a performing arts center for an exclusive prep school this month. Entirely befitting a school made up of the malformed spawn of the astronomically rich, the place looks like a flying saucer.
Kids connect foam noodles that look like pool toys to square cubes with cutout openings; others mash together piles of sand and water inside a fortress of moveable parts they just built.
It sounds like an expensive day care or a water park--but it's latest New York City public park, the Imagination Playground, which opens today at South Street Seaport (pictured above). Both the city and the designers, The Rockwell Group, hope it'll become a new paradigm in how kids play.
It's been less than a month since GM unveiled its Yves Behar-designed electric car charger, and already the mega-corporation is being challenged by another design-savvy charge spot: the Blink charger, designed by Frog Design for charging station veteran ECOtality.
Yesterday, WikiLeaks scored one of the biggest scoops in its young life: over 90,000 raw field reports from the war in Afghanistan. And to coincide with that leak, the Guardian has created the most useful tool out there for deciding for yourself what the memos mean.
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