UNStudio Plans A Gravity-Defying Watchtower Using High-Tech Concrete
Sure, it’s pretty, but it’s also an experiment in cutting-edge building tech.
Sure, it’s pretty, but it’s also an experiment in cutting-edge building tech.
Oh, look. It’s just another retreat shaped like a missile, painted like a Christmas sweater, and hanging clear off the side of a mountain.
Architects have officially lost their marbles!
Gabriela Ravassa’s Coco bucket is designed to reduce injuries in bean pickers, the unsung heroes of Colombia’s coffee industry.
British-born, Hong Kong-based designer Michael Young successfully blends sophisticated styling, green materials, and high-quality sound.
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Steve Prastka’s minimalist, gleaming designs look like what would happen if Jony Ive went into the funeral business.
The video is called Covers, and in it a woman uses books, candles, dishes, and old stereos to build exact replicas of modern icons.
It’s office-party season, which means, time to get your dranky-drank on!!
But wait! You don’t want to get so sloshed you end up doinking your secretary and accidentally running a lawnmower over someone’s foot. This stuff happens!
Okay, maybe just on TV. Still. It’d be a damned shame to get fired for ladling yourself one too many cups of egg nog.
Written by: Jump Associates
The key to growing in an uncertain economy is to cross disciplines, writes Jump’s Jonathan Gambrio.
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