Office fires will be so much more fun now...
Well I highly recommend not smoking in this office, everything is made of cardboard, from cubicles to the meeting room table. Paul Coudamy designed this office for a French advertising agency, they were on a tight budget and wanted flexibility of their 180sqm space. So what better way than to grab some waterproof honeycomb cardboard, glue and tape, spend an all night bender on energy drinks and hope you don't slice a finger off...well they probably spent more time than that. There are some nice little spaces created from the massing of cardboard, and I'm sure the fumes from the glue would make you appreciate the space even more.

Link via Dezeen

Attention to detail for the bigger image.
I have always enjoyed looking at the finer details of design and how they can make the bigger picture more whole...look at this design by Susie Mendive of SUM. A floral print of fine leaves that creates a silhouette of a figure...

Link via notcot.org
Buy it at Design Public

Concrete is dull.
Well all those bland grey concrete panels that we see everyday could be more interesting...like artist Yuko Kanemura has exhibited for 100% Design.

Link Via Mocoloco
Other Works by Kanemura

Snaking Timber bench by Gehry Partners.
Check out this timber bench by Gehry Partners, it was designed and constructed for Design Tide which is a design exhibition running concurrently with the Tokyo Designers Week. More photos and links after the link.

Link via Dezeen

LAonline is...Online!
AILA's Landscape Architecture online magazine is now easily accessible via the aila.org.au website. You can access all the past magazines through an easy to navigate site.

Fresh playground images coming up soon...

Seen these around town?
These haven't really taken off as yet but, with the iPhone (murmur..) and other internet savvy phones, you may well be seeing these around alot more.

Good Morning.

Now this is a Super-stop.
We have nothing on it, our whole public transport system probably won't even compare to this one stop.
I'm not sure if this thing would stop much rain...but I'm sure lots and lots of people would use the tram network because they want to see this awesome stop. Or when they travel past it in their cars they will circle around the round about again and again wishing they had caught the tram. Link below...


Via Dezeen

Dog tired from boring playspaces?
I don't think your dog would be getting bored in this playspace designed for children, skaters and our fellow canine friends. As part of ExperimentalDesign2008 in Amsterdam, Droog have commissioned this play space designed by Maartje Dros, it is a space that aims to address the ever growing divide between urban centres and dogs, where the dog spaces are pushed out to the fringes and remove the fence that seperates children and dogs...make sense? Need coffee. Links below.

Via Dezeen
ExperimentalDesign2008
Droog

Be Ready to be Bedazzled!
So BIG as won a competition to do a public space in Denmark, and it seems they propose to have a red square, a green park and a black market made up of 57 objects from 57 cultures forming a "global vernacular". Well actually it is a lot more complicated than that but having wacky ideas and actually doing something with it is pretty cool. Have a read of the project information BIG provided to Dezeen, and then travel to their website to have a squiz at some of the other projects, but be sure to have some sunnies on, or turn down the brightness on your monitor...lots of colour...lots.

A photo speaks a thousand words. Does this mean I can have a 2 photo essay?
I find that photos have a way of interpreting a scene or a landscape that words cannot describe, they can create emotions and sensations that words cannot convey. So here are a couple photographers that I like...links below.

Corey Arnold
Dan O'day

Glowing Fields.
Little lights inspired by the campsite oasis in the Australian outback...
More info and pictures after the jump.

Link via Dezeen

EcoCity by MVRDV and GRAS
It seems that these sustainable ecological happy cities just keep popping up...
I'd like to see in 20 Years time what these cities would be like, spatially and economically...anyway pictures and more info after the jump.

Link Via Dezeen

Sketch to Documentation, Norwegian Style.
The University of Melbourne and AILA Fresh would like to present Jenny Osuldsen who will be informally presenting and exhibiting her design process, the event will take place after The Ellis Stone Awards.

Venue, Drinks and Food provided by The University of Melbourne.

Date:	Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time:	7:00pm - 10:10pm
Location:	2nd Floor Atrium
	Uni Melb Architecture Building

Please place green stuff here -->

Ever see a place that was perfect for placing a little garden?
Well you're probably not the first person...and you probably aren't that weird if you want to jump up and down and yell.."PUT SOME GREENESS HERE PLEASE!!!"..well maybe a little weird...

Anyway a certain Eve S Mosher is planning to do little green spaces all over a city with little signs pointing the way...look at the website

Greenies fight back with knuckle dusters...
Well not really, but what kind of cool fashion accessory that involves live moss and shiny metal won't grow on you...

Link: Via Inhabitat

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It's a Dog! No, It's a bike Rack!

Well someone is trying something different, a bike rack that is a wireframe or outline of objects that you may associate with the street character...pretty cool...


Link: Via Wallpaper