CES 2007 – Hometech Middle East
Last January 8-11, 2007, I have been to the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, and celebrated its 40th anniversary. There were 2,700 exhibitors spread around 1.8 million sqft of exhibit space, and over 140,000 attendees from across the globe experienced the latest consumer technology products. One of the events I [...]
10 Photographs That Changed the World
Photography can take us places, we’ve never been before, perhaps never dreamed of. There are some photographs that will make you stop and think. These 10 photographs stopped the world and people hold their breaths for a few seconds to take it all in.
Cardstacker
Can you believe this? Bryan Berg Guinness world record cardstacker creates new record at Disney. If you haven’t heard about him, read below and check out his website as well. “Bryan Berg broke the Guinness World Record for the World’s Tallest House of Cards in 1992 at the age of seventeen, with a tower fourteen [...]
The 51 Best Magazines Ever
Do you know anyone who hasn’t read a magazine in his/her life? If yes, too bad!… Magazines are part of our daily lives. Here are my picks of the best 51 smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most influential, most necessary, most important, most essential, etc. magazines: 2. New Yorker – “…has remained a beacon of intellectual [...]
Santiago Calatrava is Hoping His 80 South Street Realized
With its peerless architectural design, the Eighty South Street tower stands conspicuous against the skyline of New York City. This 835-foot-tall residential building houses just ten ultra-exclusive townhouse condominiums, with a starting bid for each unit at US$ 29 million. Each townhouse, contained within its own individual cube with roughly 10,000 square feet of floor [...]
Tomorrow’s Garden City
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation and North Hertfordshire Homes, in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects, are delighted to promote “Tomorrow’s Garden City: A Sustainable Approach to Modern Living”.
2007 Design Award Winners
Over 400 submissions from 50 states and 12 foreign countries poured in for the 2007 Design Awards, sponsored by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Amazing New Billboard Concepts
This is an innovative idea from Ian Hart for a Mustang billboard campaign. According to Hart the billboards are “constructed from GE Lexan EXL semi-transparent resin, the billboard accurately blurs the scene behind it regardless of day, weather or season.”
Housing project in Los Angeles
Situated in an area of downtown Los Angeles, California fast becoming one of the largest homeless populations in the country, Skid Row Housing’s 43,000 sf Rainbow Apartments examines the role of creating a space of transformation within an extreme socioeconomic and urban context.
Four Season Opens on Island in Thailand
Luxury hotelier Four Seasons has opened its 74th property world wide—this one on Koh Samui island in Thailand. Featuring 60 villas surrounded by 88 pools, Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, Thailand is a remote waterfront retreat, built into the landscape of the Laem Yai peninsula, and invisible from the sea. Four Seasons also has resorts [...]
Countdown Clock Unveiled
The clock’s design is influenced by the natural and urban surroundings of Vancouver and Whistler. At left, the design team’s initial concept sketch. At right, Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan with the real thing.
