Design Zealot

The Office for Metropolitan Art (OMA) has just revealed their final design for the New Hamburg Science Center and Aquarium. The structure, which will be 23000 meters square of space, will house a science centre, aquarium, theatre, offices, laboratories as well as commercial and retail facilities. The structural design consists of 10 interconnecting blocks that will form the shape of a ring. Not only is the design of the structure trying to encourage new structural forms, but also as being a leader in adapting new environmental technologies included in its' construction.

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wire sculptures and cramplingmade by polyscene

from edinburgh, scotland.

hippocampus, miniature wire and paper sculptures of mythological creatures, 2007

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New air/spacecraft design: Three fuselages, two aircraft, mated. That there is a rendering of SpaceShipTwo connected to its WhiteKnightTwo «mothership,» the crafts that will launch space tourists into their dreams.

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For people suffering from blindness, a highly trained seeing eye dog is a welcome companion when it comes to getting around. RED the robotic dog, its name an acronym for Reading Eye Dog, seeks to offer the same kind of comfort to budding readings and the reading impaired.

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If you love surprises then this rotating TV and bookcase will be fun. The twisting entertainment center, «The Gyre» from Reversica displays your flat screen TV only when you want it to. Not a new concept though, but a fine one if you are not content with you 50» plasma anymore or just want to display it more nicely.

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Sanyo has built an ark for the solar century – an impressive 630 kW solar-collecting building that boasts over 5,000 solar panels and kicks off over 500,000 kWh of energy per year. Even more outstanding is the fact that most of the monocrystalline modules used on the Solar Ark were factory rejects headed to the scrap pile. Located next to Sanyo's semiconductor factory in Gifu, Japan, the Solar Ark stands as one of the best examples of building integrated PV design to date.

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