Kerenyi Zoltan is a Hungarian architect from Budapest who came up with an astonishing idea of combining old and new Budapest in an ongoing series of photos in a project called Ablak a multra, or a Window to the past. The idea is simply brilliant. By merging old photos of Budapest with the new ones, …
Hotel de Glace, or the Ice Hotel is a construction that is built every year. It is made of 15,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice and its freezing four feet thick walls that keep the temperature inside the hotel between -23⁰F and -28⁰F. Even though it does not sound like the most …
Ada Bridge in Serbia is a part of the city of Belgrade’s huge project that aims to reduce the traffic congestion, being a part of the Inner City Semi Ring Road and connected to the highway. It is a single pylon cable-stayed asymmetrically built construction. The product was awarded to the Ponting company from Slovenia. …
Here’s another pioneering product from the Chicago-based Innovation Factory. Earlier, we have featured a project by one of Innovation Factory’s interns Sanjeet Das called Opus, a combination of an iPhone and iPad stand and amplifier, and, this time round, we are showcasing the Magic Cube, a modern take on Rubik’s cube but with numbers and …
Romaniticism and intimacy are not extinct. Well, at least not in the case of furniture design thanks to Il Treno, a dining compartment reminiscent of sentimental train journeys. Designed by a Dutch studio Tjep, which was founded in 2001 by the renowned Dutch Designer Frank Tjepkema, Il Treno (‘train’ in Italian language) is a modular …
German designer Markus Krauss made this multi functional rocking chair and named it Sway. It is a surprisingly comfortable and adjustable piece of furniture. The Sway rocking chair is big enough for two people. It has a comfortable padded seat and a cleverly designed steel frame that allows it to be used in numerous different …
Simon Frambach is a German product designer and Soft Light is not the first of his products that can be used for illumination, but it is definitely unique and conspicuous. This soft, pumpkin shaped product gives off soft light, but its nature lets it be used as a crevice filling device, or a simple pillow. …
Mix and match some architecture, famous London landmarks and a board game, and you get a cleverly designed monochromatic chess set called Skyline. Designers Ian Flood and Chris Prosser say that they “developed the idea over a few chess matches and went on to model the pieces in 3D.” “From there we had them 3D …
The first words that spring to mind when you mention ‘hostel’ are cramped, loud, smelly and small. You’d be pleased to know that there is a hostel / hotel that is anything but… It is called Generator Hostel, and it is located in Barcelona’s Gràcia district, a ten-minute walk from Antoni Gaudí’s famous Casa Batlló …
Just an hour’s drive away from Lisbon lies this beautiful retreat, called Casas na Areia, a perfect place for a tranquil holiday near at the beach, but including all of the benefits that modern technology offers and you would be reluctant to leave behind. Before the purchase and renovation, the land was owned by local …