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Pollution → Art

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Remember when this Chinese artist just stood on the roads of Beijing for a 100 days with a running vacuum cleaner and used all the air pollution he gathered to make a brick? The air pollution problem is usually underplayed by people, because like global warming, or any other environmental danger, its results aren’t immediate. Just imagine if you could take all that particulate matter in the air and just use it to create a monument to remind you that your planet and your lungs have a lot to worry about. The Air Stalagmite is a massive structure that uses vacuums and 3D printers to collect air dust over a year and use it to create an organic mega-sculpture out of it. With passing years, this sculpture gets thicker and more detailed, forming a sort of air-pollution map of your city. Not only does it very organically display the quality of the air you breathe, but it also reduces pollution because all that dust and dirt gets gathered up by the skyscraper and used as a building material for the Air-Stalagmite. Truly a beautiful and revolutionary concept!

Designer: Changsoo Park & Sizhe Chen.

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And we’ll call it The Droneycomb

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You may have noticed the ever rising love for drones our world has had over the past two years. Drones are pretty awesome robots, but they come with a set of complications. Drone laws are the latest set of regulations to enter the constitutions of many countries, with some countries (Denmark) training birds of prey to take down these flying gizmos. The Hive, provides a solution to most of the drone related problems faced by us and the government…the largest, by far, being regulation. The Hive is a massive skyscraper that uses its entire outer facade as a docking zone for drones. Commercial as well as personal drones of all shapes and sizes can dock on the facade at different points, giving it a sort of shape-shifting beauty that makes it look like a honeycomb with bees around it. The Hive not only docks the drones, but also charges them, giving people all the more reason to have their drones resting on the Hive, and providing the Hive with all the necessary means to keep track on the drones in the vicinity.

The Hive: Drone Skyscraper won the 2nd Prize at the Evolo Skyscraper Competition in 2016.

Designers: Hadeel Ayed Mohammad, Yifeng Zhao & Chengda Zhu.

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Central Park, now with more Park!

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It’s just the most amazing feeling appreciating good design that’s backed by a brilliant idea. Residents of New York have been complaining that their evergreen Central Park has lost its grandeur. The reason? Too many skyscrapers just outside the park have destroyed the view of park goers. Not only do you not get to see the city’s skyline properly, the sunrise and sunset get blocked by these massive structures.

Yitan Sun & Jianshi Wu came up with probably the most inventive solution to this problem. Instead of demolishing the buildings around the park, just surround the park with a wall of mirrors. This not only makes the park seem bigger, it also makes the buildings seem further away as a result, so you see more of the park and less of the concrete jungle. Isn’t that an absolutely marvellous solution?!

No wonder this concept secured the 1st prize at the Evolo Skyscraper Competition!

Designers: Yitan Sun & Jianshi Wu.

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LED Bulbs with 3D Printed Skyscraper Shades: Stalaclights & Huddle

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One of the advantages of LED bulbs over incandescent ones is that they generate significantly less heat. Product designer David Graas capitalized on that benefit by creating lamps with 3D printed “bulbshades”, which are diffusers that sit directly on the LED bulb.

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David’s newest bulbshade design features inverted Art Deco skyscrapers, hence their name Stalaclights.

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While I appreciate the novelty of Stalaclights, I actually think that they’re more pleasing to look at when they’re upright. The one that works upside down is David’s first 3D printed bulbshade, the Huddle.

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You can purchase both Stalaclights and Huddle from Layers in Design. Stalaclights cost ~$200 (USD) while Huddle costs ~$170 each. Each bulbshade comes with an LED bulb – 5.5W for Stalaclights, 5W for Huddle – an 8ft. cable, a lamp holder and a ceiling cap. I can see geeky bulbshades becoming a thing… for about a tenth of these prices.

[via David Graas via Fubiz]

 

Demi Lovato dedicates Song to Bruce Jenner

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Last night in New Zealand we saw that Demi Lovato threw her musical support behind Bruce Jenner. The pop star dedicated her performance of the ballad ‘Warrior’ to the Olympic gold medalist during her...

Vernacular Versatility

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This architectural accomplishment takes inspiration from traditional Korean Hanok houses that are defined by their wooden structural systems, curvy tiled roofs and strong formal gestures. The core structural element is known as Gagu – the point under the roof where column meets beam and girder without additional fasteners like nails. Using new modeling software, these traditional elements are merged with modern know-how to create a high-rise structure to meet contemporary purposes that also pays homage to the iconic, historically one-story residences.

Designer: Yong Ju Lee

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Ford Plans To Put a 2015 Mustang Convertible on Top of the Empire State Building

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Check out the image below and look at it closely. It’s an old and blurry image in black and white from the 60′s, but you can see clearly that is a Ford Mustang on top of New York City’s iconic Empire State building. The car was put up there as an advertising stunt to celebrate the launch of the original 1965 Mustang convertible.

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If you are wondering how the car got up there, engineers took the car apart into three major chunks and reassembled it on the observation deck of the building. Ford plans to recreate this marketing stunt for the all-new 2015 Mustang convertible.

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The new Mustang will be carried up the elevator as well and sit atop the observation deck of the building for two days during the New York Auto show this April. The engineers are still working out how exactly they will take the much larger modern Mustang apart and reassemble it on top of the building with only a 6-hour window of opportunity.

If you’re fortunate enough to be in town between April 16th and 17th, the car will be on display from 8am to 2am on the building’s observation deck.

[via USA Today]

Easy Fix for Skyscraper that is Melting Cars

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Reports appeared this week from London about a skyscraper that is melting cars. The so called Walkie Talkie tower has a mirrored surface that reflects sunlight at such intensity that cars parked at...