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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Put Their Apartment on Airbnb: Viral Power
Don’t tell Shredder, but it turns out New York’s sewers are just one of the Turtles’ hangouts. They also have a nice three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, and they let folks stay there while they were out fighting crime.
To promote the upcoming movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out of the Shadows, Paramount turned a Manhattan apartment into the Turtles’ lair, complete with a TV area filled with boomboxes, a basketball ring, a weapon locker and lots of graffiti. Then they put it up for overnight stays on Airbnb, throwing in a couple of free pizzas. It’s already fully booked, but at least we have these pictures.
Their Airbnb account says that for every guest that stayed, Paramount will donate money in their name to PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. Check out the Airbnb page for more shots and messages from Leonardo. So what’s next, Casey Jones on Tinder?
[via The Roosevelts]
Handmade Living
In a beautiful blend of old and new, Obelisken 29, located on Södermalm in Stockholm, consists of 20 brand new penthouse apartments, some with terraces and balconies, added on top of the old roof of an existing 1960’s building. The existing structure also received a revamped façade. The design features 4 key components:
The reverse plan:
When two storey penthouses are built the bedrooms are often upstairs and kitchen and living room areas are downstairs, a remnant of housing at ground level where it feels safer to sleep upstairs. For Obelisken 29, this has been reversed. The lower ”box” is more closed than the upper, which is filled with light that enters through the large glass partitions. “You arrive at the upper floor, via lift, and enter a generous space,” explains co-founder, architect and designer Ola Rune. “That’s where you want to be. When you become tired you just go downstairs to bed.”
The details:
Claesson Koivisto Rune has left their mark in the interiors in every detail. The penthouses boast, among other things, specially-designed door handles, railings, parapets, kitchen doorknobs, wallpapers, windowsills and sliding glass doors. “We have designed as much as possible of the fixed interior details,” according to Ola Rune. “It was commonplace in the 1930’s for architects to be given the opportunity to custom design the interiors of their buildings, but today this requires an unusually sensitive developer. It gives absolutely unique attributes and makes this building and its apartments a Gesamtkunstwerk.”
The division of the façade:
The 1960’s building, on which the penthouse apartments are built, was built as a long monochrome block. Claesson Koivisto Rune have transformed the monotonous building complex by dividing its length into four, where each part is given its own colour: three shades of grey and a terracotta. “This way the building fits in better with the other buildings along the street, gaining a the smaller scale appearance, which is typical for Stockholm,” explains Ola Rune. “The colour scheme was selected from the fantastic bricks that we are using. They are also colours typical for Stockholm. The division of the building makes the street more intimate and enjoyable I think.”
The bricks:
Danish Petersen Tegl has knowledge of making high quality bricks stretching back eight generations. Today, they are considered the world’s most exclusive. “They manufacture by hand and it really shows that every brick is a craft,” says Ola Rune. “The brick exudes solidity, quality, a material full of expression that only gets more beautiful with time. We are using it at street level, along the full length of the 1960’s building, as well as all of the penthouse. In this way we tie together the whole building – the brick becomes a bit of its hallmark.
Designer: Claesson Koivisto Rune
Divine Design!
This happens to be my first post about Interior Design, and I’m most certainly stoked, because this stuff is just fabulous! Titled the IK1 House, this interior design project by Igor Statov has something to please all kinds of people. It’s modern, with a touch of old, vibrant yet subtle, Scandinavian with a hint of grunge.
What really gets my blood pumping are the colors. Igor uses a relatively de-saturated color scheme but then introduces a piece of furniture with a bright hue, really making the space jump to life! Also, nothing screams WIN more than a fireplace!
Designer: Igor Sirotov
Star Trek Apartment Goes up for Sale
This studio apartment built to look just like Star Trek’s Voyager is for sale in the United Kingdom. And it is not located in London’s Delta Quadrant.
The small apartment is in Hinckley, Leicestershire and was created by Tony Alleyne. He converted the place after his wife left him. He built it to look like the USS Enterprise first, but it was too boring for him so he went full Voyager on the flat, with the exception of the transporter control deck, which is modeled after the Next Generation era. The windows are even blocked and constructed to look like you are looking out into space too. Nice touch.
He spent about £4,000 (~$6,300 USD) on the materials and did the work himself, which is pretty impressive. The place looks amazing. You may have even heard about this place in the news back in 2012, when Alleyne’s wife was trying to have the apartment sold as part of the divorce settlement. Well, it never got sold then, but now it is listed for sale at £70,000 ($110,000 USD)
Man I wish I lived in the UK. I would buy it.
[via Geeks Are Sexy]