Objects in mirror are wider than they appear
This is an interesting story. It shows one more time how we design spaces affect people’s behavior. Robert Kilroy-Silk (on the photo) currently an independent MEP, has raised the issue in the European Parliament of intentionally distorting mirrors in clothes stores, specifically Marks & Spencer.
How to Use Converging Lines to Enhance Your Photography
Don’t you like digital cameras? Take a photo, look at it, if you don’t like it, delete and re-take! Here are some tips for capturing good photos! When framing a landscape shot one of the types of environmental features that many photographers look for an like to incorporate in their shots is converging lines.
20 Houses by Twenty Architects
This volume, now also available in paperback, inaugurates a new Electaarchitecture series on residential architecture and presents an illustrated portfolio of 20 innovative, talked-about houses built around the world during the past decade by both celebrated architects and emerging young designers.
Royal Haskoning’s winning design
Nakheel invited architects to make a concept master plan design for Palm Jebel Ali, just off the coast of Dubai. The winning design submitted by Royal Haskoning and D103 International consists of a surface area of 300,000m² to be used for sports activities, residential housing, a retail sector, and office buildings.
Tabanlioglu Architects design Istanbul’s sparkling Tower
Istanbul is a city of youthful dynamism with its eye on the high-tech future and the profits and innovations. The 261 meter tower will be one of the highest structures in the central business district of Istanbul. Rising upward, the building gets slightly thinner. At the fourth level, it slightly broadens downwards and the glass [...]
For cat lovers!
This a cool design for cat lovers, like me! It’s zebra wood and an aluminum base for great looking furniture that your cat will actually enjoy. It’s from James Owen Design. You may have seen his stuff before, he won the Michelin Design Challenge in 2006.
