Folding Plug (UK)

Much like everyone else who has picked this up today, I must add my voice to the chorus that is hoping this concept makes it into production; this has to be one of the neatest, even simplest solution for making plugs compact and similar designs could be applied to the world’s plugs – if it can be done with the world’s “biggest standard plug” then it could also be applied to others. The multi-plug concept is even sweeter

Veyron

Veyron Grand Sport

From a design perspective this is elegance in the extreme. It flies in the face of the trend towards hybrid, non-gas-guzzling with a middle finger raised ever so high. In all probability, anyone buying one of these will probably do so to stick in the lounge and just admire it for it is a work of art; that said, anyone who buys one of these to have as a work of art is probably being more ‘eco minded’ because it will mean it never hits the road at full speed. Fabulous design.

Eiffel redeux

Adding a thrill aspect to the tower, or a spider’s web

• Trend Hunter

Object Charts

I am new to this site, but I already like it. Fabulous

• OObject

Crystal Island

If they build it, it stays up, and they fill it then I might, finally, be tempted to visit Moscow.

• Inhabitat
• The Guardian

Other peoples’ houses

For at least the last few years, maybe longer, The Daily Telegraph has been part of a competition for find the best home building and renovations done in the UK. I’d like to think of it as the complete antithesis of the tat and eye corroding designs that the general “house builders” of the UK seem to get away with (and charge huge buckets of cash for).

Most important of all it does show that with a little imagination, and not so many buckets of cash, that new, or renovated, but certainly exciting houses can be built in the UK. These example are nothing short of inspirational, fabulous!

• The Daily Telegraph

Down the pan

• Concierge

The Icon Hotel, Prague

[The Icon - Prague Post]

Office space

There are two reasons for noting this building. One is that it is close to where I work, and secondly because it will add a huge clock to the surrounding area. Well, its got to be better than concrete high-rises.

[Prague 4]

Eco design

Prague’s many high rise apartments are being transformed from their original drab, grey exteriors to brightly painted buildings that look more like new developments rather than the concrete, architectural disasters they once were. It would be interesting to know the changes in energy consumption because of the addition of exterior insulation and double glazing, if anyone ever checked these things.

In Germany, it appears that the same transformations are taking place to older apartment buildings also. Spiegel online has an article all about it.

[Spiegel - English]