RECYCLED WINDOWS GLASS HOUSE

Modern house from recycled windows, Christiania

Glass house made from recycled glass windows in Freetown Christiania, neighborhood/commune in Copenhagen, Denmark created during the hippie movement. Christiania has its own flag and its own set of rules independent from the Danish government. Within Christiania itself no cars are allowed, stealing is forbidden as well as violence, guns, knives, bulletproof vests, hard drugs and bikers’ colors.




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Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on July 19, 2009




SUSTAINABLE TRAILER PARK

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Emergency Response Studio, by Paul Villinski, is a solar-powered, mobile artist’s studio, rebuilt from an old trailer. An artist needs to be mobile and free just in case of the ocean water rising because Greenland is melting, and other devastating natural disasters, such as Katrina in New Orleans. 

CATEGORIES:   LIFESTYLE, REDESIGN, WISDOM / BOOKS, restoration,


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PLASTIC WORLD INTO CERAMIC

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Ceramic rubber duckie by Futility l.t.d Really cool.

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Ceramic milk carton bt Hanna Risgaard.

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COEXISTENCE…...MINEO MIZUNO

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I ♥  Mineo Mizuno sculptures. Mineo Mizuno was born in Japan and currently resides in Los angeles, CA.  Water-drop/pebble like large ceramic forms are covered in small holes in which mosses are planted.

CATEGORIES:   ART, ECO ART, CERAMICS, NATURE,


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Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on July 18, 2009




NEW PARK IN NYC

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The High Line was built in the 1930s. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980. Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit group, formed in 1999 when the historic structure was under threat of demolition. Friends of the High Line works in partnership with the City of New York to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park.

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CERAMIC TEACUP

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Ceramic Teacup by Jonathan Trotter

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CLOUD SCULPTURE

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Cloud sculpture by Jennifer Forsberg.

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PAINTINGS OF NIGHT SKY - CONSTELLATION SERIES - ALEXANDRA PAPERNO

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ALEXANDRA PAPERNO
“Lepus”, from the “Star Maps” series
2003
Mixed media on canvas
150 x 120 cm


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I really like these paintings by Alexandra Paperno. Alexandra was born in Moscow, studied art in New York at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and currently resides in Moskow.  In Constellation Series Alexandra paints night sky, star maps and stars. Vladimir Levashov writes about her work : her paintings are set on the “borderline between abstraction and figurativeness, between the image of an object and the interpretation of its attributes. However, it is not always exactly the maps. Sometimes it is a globe, sometimes – just a single star. The star, however, may as well turn out to be the “Grey sun”. Not a point, but a tondo (a professional term), a circle, expressively painted over with the most low-key, the most complicated colour. It so happens that the sun is not exactly the sun, and the stars are more like points, celestial nebula – coloristic surfaces, but altogether – it represents sheer painting. Nevertheless, it is not “merely painting”, not a superficial formalism, but a huge mass of deeply emotional substance. It is the very thing, which the night sky represents for each of us: fairytale, mysterious and inaccessibly sublime. And the best art for it is nothing else but a map”

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Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on July 07, 2009




FLOATING ECO-ORIENTED BARGE HOUSE

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The Waterpod is a floating art project, community and living space on a barge. The structure is built from recycled wood, billboard sign material, metal and powered by a hybrid solar/wind system that also runs all on-board equipment.  The barge also incorporates a garden with vegetables (lettuce, sunflowers, corn, eggplant and e.t.c ) grown with purified water from the vertical agriculture. Four artists live on the barge and are very friendly to talk to you about their project.  There is also a chicken coop made from recycled shipping crate previously used to ship artworks. 

CATEGORIES:   LIFESTYLE, design, ART,


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Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on July 03, 2009




BIKES IN AMSTERDAM

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CATEGORIES:   neigborhood / community, photographs,


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Posted by DESIGN SQUISH on July 01, 2009




VIRTUAL FISH AQUARIUM

I love the idea of a virtual interactive fish aquarium mainly because you do not have to have a real fish aquarium and because by adding it to your desktop, website and google you can look at it every time you go on your computer.
P.S ( It is really fun to feed them!)
You can change the fish colors, fish food color and background.  This is how my fish aquarium looks like:

virtual interactive fish aquarium

CATEGORIES:   LIFESTYLE, WISDOM / BOOKS, ART, DIY,


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