October 22, 2006 – 4:50 pm
The current redevelopment of East Darling Harbour to create some of the most expensively mediocre real estate in Sydney also produced an attempted piece of culture history whitewashing, the renaming of Hickson Road. This roadway surrounded by cliffs and warehouses has always been colloquially known as The Hungry Mile in memory of the [...]
October 22, 2006 – 2:20 pm
The ScrapHouse was built exclusively of scrap and salvaged material on Civic Center Plaza adjacent to San Francisco City Hall in conjunction with World Environment Day 2005.
According to the press release
“With walls sheathed with everything from street signs and shower doors to fire hoses and phonebooks, ScrapHouse is a sight to be seen, the ultimate [...]
October 22, 2006 – 1:22 pm
That ubiquitous fixture of garage sales, the Etch-A-Sketch, has finally been turned into something useful (did anyone ever manage to create a recognisable image on one of those things.. er yes, sort of.)
Here it is, the Electr-O-Sketch, the computerised, adaptively reused Etch-A-Sketch. Two Cornell University engineering students, Jason Levin and Chris Hopkins, replaced the knobs [...]
October 22, 2006 – 11:48 am
Louise T Blouin is a squillionaire Canadian publisher with an interest in the arts. Having acquired the iconoclastic art magazine Modern Painters and turned it into a fashion magazine she has now set up a foundation in her own name and its new headquarters have just opened in London.
The Louise T Blouin Institute is one [...]
October 17, 2006 – 7:04 pm
The Mini desk reminded me that few years back I’d seen a DC3 wing desk in one of those house porn magazines so I went looking for it and here it is.
You can get a single wing
or if you are particularly obese you can get a double winger
and you can accessorize - a nose cone [...]
October 14, 2006 – 11:44 pm
The world’s smallest, cheapest and best selling guitar amp is the Smokin Amp, housed in an adaptively reused cigarette packet. They’re having a bit of trouble sourcing cigarette packets these anti-smoking days so they suggest you send in your own used packet with your order.
Have a listen here.
We were looking for the earliest example of [...]
October 14, 2006 – 9:08 pm
We’ve all seen those silly adaptations of the arse end of cars, where there are seats or beds in the boot (trunk to you seppos), all sitting in an awful tacky motel room. Or if you are feeling more tasteful, perhaps a car desk? (Thank you ChipChick).
Should we regard them as kitsch or post modern? [...]
October 14, 2006 – 6:52 pm
that’s what it says, honest, go see for yourself. Although the site does seem to have lost something in the translation, or at least adaptively reused the english language.
However, we did like the way the bell was described as “The latest foppery equipment” and that morse key mouse has a strange appeal. We found it [...]
October 11, 2006 – 11:44 pm
Our last post about gas holders brought another almost identical one to our attention, demolished in Ipswich Queensland at about the same time as the Lithgow gas holder.
In case you think we are being a bit silly about this you have to remember that there are now very few left in Australia. In the [...]
October 11, 2006 – 9:13 pm
One of Lacaton & Vassal’s neatest tricks is to cover the roof of a more conventional building with glasshouses to extend the amount of usable enclosed space.
Here is a project that combines shipping containers (yeah!) with plastic carports in a similar way to produce a beautiful and elegant remote rainforest research centre. It can be [...]
