So where do New Yorkers go when they’ve tired of the rats, the rotten-vegetable smell, the $3,000 a month apartment, trying to catch a cab in the rain, the 1 train, the lines, the pasty tourists walking slowly in front of them, the pasty tourists stopping in front of them, the pasty tourists doing a cheer pyramid in front of them, Naked Cowboy (a pasty-tourist favorite)? Somewhere else in the New York area, of course!
Ah&Oh Studio has taken some of the most macabre figures in the history of western letters and given them their very own perfume bottles.
![Can St. Louis’s Arch Become a True Gateway, Rather Than a Black Hole? [Updated with VIDEO]](/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/642x368/Behnisch-Team-Museum-View-Full-1.jpg "Can St. Louis’s Arch Become a True Gateway, Rather Than a Black Hole? [Updated with VIDEO]")
St. Louis's biggest urban design problem is so obvious that it's visible from a plane. At the center of the city, its star, Eero Saarinen's 1965 masterpiece, the 630-foot Gateway Arch, easily one of the most stunning and unusual architectural triumphs of all time. Surrounding the Arch, 91 acres of rolling lush green grass and mirror-like pools designed by Dan Kiley.
You may know Paul Stamets as a master mycologist who lectures on the magic of mushrooms, like in his recent TED talk where he explains the six ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe. But he's also putting those mushrooms to work in a new product called Life Box, which uses the fertilizing power of fungi in a cardboard box that actually grows trees. Yes, that's right, it's packaging that sprouts pines.
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It’s hard being green in a high rise, and if you want operable windows, forget it. You might as well turn the place into a coal plant. But German architects Sauerbruch Hutton have figured out a way to let in fresh air without tossing their eco cred. The secret: a high-tech skin.
Rescue missions are confusing and harrowing, and, tragically, they too often end in failure. Can interaction design help?
LSSE -- shorthand for Locate, Support, Survive and Endure -- is a conceptual disaster network billed as a virtual lifeline between survivors and rescuers. Victims receive a touch-screen phone for talking, video-chatting, and IMing with rescue workers. Information is then dispatched to a central dashboard, on which emergency officials manage all aspects of the relief effort. Check the videos below:
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