Architecture & Interior

These are the smallest homes in the world

The days of three-family houses are long gone. Young people now think more economically, also in the context of the environment. Well, probably also for economic reasons. How to have your own home, but for little money, is an eternal question and some people have apparently already answered it. What do the smallest homes that you can rent even just for the weekend look like?

Standing desk Stan - has something that the others don't

Desks, at which we do not sit, but stand, are quickly becoming popular due to the positive effects on our metabolism and back. Unfortunately, they are not exactly cheap, at least not the slightly better ones. Twikit presents a new, revolutionary table, adapted to the measurements of each individual, but at a completely affordable price. They named her Stan.

Architecture & Interior

A dream garage for a dream vehicle

Rumors circulate in many places around us that cars are an extension or a substitute for a man, ammmm, a friend. And so it's no wonder that the garage in which this man's dream car is parked is a kind of shrine or residence of this mythological creature.

Architecture & Interior

A floating vegetable garden in New York

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.

Architecture & Interior

How do you waste $5 billion - ask Apple

We've all fantasized about how we'd spend our money if we won the lottery. We usually imagine a new house, a car, a longer trip, some even perhaps a yacht or other luxury toys. It's probably harder to imagine what we would do with 5 billion dollars, isn't it? This is as much as e.g. annually generated by the country of Mauritania. Well, that's how much they spent at Apple on their campus.

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IKEA: A smart home is coming to Ikea already this fall

Sweden's Ikea, which is just one step away from opening its store here, has announced a new line of home products. Well, they do all the time, you think. Well, certainly not like that, because they are smart products. If phones are smart, why not light bulbs?

Architecture & Interior

Jump into the water from bed – with the Dream-dive platform you can now

At the edge of the lake, right next to the water, there is a small wooden sleeping cabin with a pier. You fall asleep in it, and in the morning you start the day by jumping into the water. Well, this is not the beginning of a fairy tale, but an outline of the actual scene at Bobs Lake, Canada. Architects from the North studio designed and built this 6 square meter bivouac, which they say is basically intended for families.

Architecture & Interior

This summer's trend is home-made swimming pools

You won't have to worry about built-in or inflatable pools this year. The trend is home-made swimming pools, affectionately called "hillybilly tubs". What they look like and what we need to pay attention to, below.

Architecture & Interior

Retro furniture PLAYplay - playful, colorful, bold

The design duo Francesca Lanzavecchia and Hunn Wai, in collaboration with the Singaporean furniture retailer Journey east, designed the PLAYplay line. 6 new pieces of furniture, decorated with new materials, colors and shapes, are, if nothing else, a real feast for the eyes.

Architecture & Interior

Slovenian mountain wooden house: a little more modern than we are used to

Times are changing and maybe, just maybe, the image of mountain houses as we have known them until now will also change. Log cabins built from solid wood and logs, sometimes even thatched roofs, etc. of course they have their own charm, a fairy-tale touch if you will. In the Slovenian Studio Pikaplus, they designed a slightly more modern version of the house, but it is no less fairytale-like.

Architecture & Interior

Pop-up hotels in the Czech Republic made from containers

We always worry about where to go with the bottles, broken plastic, used toaster and the rest of the waste. But it's good that we have solutions for this. But what happens to shipping containers when they expire? After all, these are huge metal bodies that are difficult to put in the trash can. Well, the Czech architecture studio Artikul came up with extraordinary ideas; they made a pop-up hotel out of three containers.

Architecture & Interior Tech

Nike: the first LED treadmill that is ahead of its time

What would it be like to run against yourself? Not just against the best time, but against the real you. Well, almost to the right one. That's what Nike thought about.

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