It’s felt like too long since we posted something on space exploration. So we took a rummage around NASA’s Image Archive, which has been loaded up onto Flickr for all to see. This shot that we love is of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin [...]
This is probably the most innovative use of tea we’ve seen in a bloody long time. German tea company Hälssen & Lyon has created the Tea Calendar, a calendar in which every day is a uniquely flavoured wafer of pressed tea leaves. Simply boil water, tear off the day from the calendar, immerse it in [...]
In the photo series “Ghosts in the Machine” by Mark Crummett, old electronic components serve as imaginary environments for tiny human figures (played by model railroad figurines). The “ghosts” in these machines are just folks, dwarfed by the technology that pervades their lives. Engaged in enigmatic activities in an out-of-scale, high tech landscape, workers toil [...]
Designed by Italian firm Act Romegialli Architects, Green Box is a small camouflaged garage for a private residence situated on the Raethian Alps. While the interior is organized into a gardening room, cooking area, and a small dining/hang out space, it’s the exterior that makes this contemporary hobbit home pretty remarkable. The architects created a [...]
As soon as 2014, the Burj Khalifa’s title as world’s tallest building will be no more. Sky City, a planned 220-story prefab tower in Changsha, China, is taking its place. Broad Sustainable Building, the company in charge of the build, will begin construction on this monster next month, and aims to have it the whole [...]
