Recently, there has been a lot of outrage over plastic waste that ends up in seas, lakes and rivers. It causes an increase in pollution, and at the same time it is very dangerous for animal species.
Architecture & Interior
On Italy's Lake Iseo, everything is ready to bring to life the project created by the Bulgarian artist Christo and baptized as the Floating Pier. It is a 4.5 kilometer long installation that connects the town of Sulzano and the island of Monte Isola. It will be open to the public from June 18 to July 3, 2016.
American professional skater Bob Burnquist realized his dream and built a floating skate park on Lake Tahoe.
When art and the public good collide, extraordinary stories are often written, and this one is one of those. Markets are nothing new in New York, but they haven't had anything like this before. The Swale, as it has been dubbed, is a vegetable garden on a transport vessel plying the waters of New York. It started its journey last summer, but this year it was presented in a new, improved image.
Basketball courts, indoor and outdoor, are more or less all the same. Parquet or concrete, marked with lines and any sponsors' markings or visiting teams. A Playground in Italy is a different kind of basketball court. It is an art installation, but it follows all the rules of the game.
As part of the collaboration between the French artists Céleste Boursier-Mougenot and Smarin, the beach was created - as an art project. In fact, it is a set of modular and hybrid floating parts, whose appearance resembles groups of raw concrete blocks, which are otherwise surprisingly soft to the touch.
At the design studio North Arrow Studio, they tackled noble recycling and made a modern bar from waste storage containers, which is a real feast for the eyes.
We present to you an architectural landmark that you must see the next time you are in a hurry in Prague.
Many people today live on the edge, but metaphorically and not voluntarily. But if you really want to live on the edge, we suggest you book a holiday in a house designed by Modscape. Namely, it hangs from a cliff above the sea, which clings to it like tendrils, sea crabs cling to rocks.
Straight Line Design is a Canadian design studio whose founder, Judson Beaumont, has embarked on an unusual project that we don't know whether to cringe at what people come up with or melt with cuteness: he designed caravans for your favorite furry dogs.
Celje is one of those towns lucky enough to have forests in the immediate vicinity, which are also criss-crossed with forest paths. Thanks to European funds, the municipality of Celje, together with the Celje unit of the Forestry Institute of Slovenia and Croatian partners, has now upgraded the city forest with equipment for recreation and educational and experience content. As part of the GREEN4GREY pilot project, the biggest attraction of the project, the tree house, has also grown, which will be officially opened on September 19, 2015.
POD-iDladla is a mobile home from a box, which is like a box. You get this 24 square meter home in a box and it is assembled on the spot into a small but comfortable apartment that has everything that adults have. The authors of POD-iDladle are North African architect Clara da Cruz Almeida and the company Dokter and Misses.