Magnificent Revolution Headquarters. Carl Turner Architects. London.

Carl Turner Architects created the headquarters for the not-for-profit organisation ‘Magnificent Revolution’ (MR) at Hackney City Harm. MR is made up of artists, musicians, designers, ecologists, and engineers, and functions as a cross-disciplinary organisation working in education, ecology, engineering, design, art, music and film. The multi-purpose space was created from a converted shipping container. The space demonstrates and teaches energy efficiency principles. It is insulated externally with lambswool and wood fibre slabs, it has a wild flower roof, the timber cladding is made from recycled palettes, and the Joinery and floor are made from straw board. Built by volunteers with low- tech construction techniques.
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magnificentrevolution.org

Project Cocoon by Be On Degi. Design for Humanity. Korea.

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Manifesto Architecture. Bike Hanger. NY.

The Bike Hanger is MANIFESTO Architecture firm’s solution to bike storage in crowded busy cities like New York. Serving as a bicycle storage facility, The Bike Hanger has the capacity to vertically store up to 15 bicycles. This may not be a large quantity, however the Hanger was not designed with just function in mind. Its main goal was that it could be installed in narrow, underutilized urban spaces, allowing it to make a small environmental footprint, and freeing up space for pedestrians. The Bike Hanger does not rely on any power, requiring only the appropriate pedaling motion of the user.
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Roman & Williams. Architecture + Interior Design firm. NYC.

Founded in 2002 by Robin Standefer + Stephen Alesch, the team has forged an uncanny ability to create projects that consistently find the tension between spontaneity and rigor, refinement and rebellion, high and low, and past and future. Among the firm's completed and current projects are: the renovation of the iconic Royalton Hotel, the Standard Hotel for hotelier Andre Balazs - including the Standard Grill and the 18th Floor Club - and the new Ace Hotel - including The Breslin restaurant and Stumptown Coffee Shop - all in NYC. In addition, the firm recently completed the renovation and expansion of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's important Usonian houses. New projects currently on the boards include a second new building - a hotel tower - on 57th Street, two prominent new restaurants, the firm's first retail store, which is part of the rebranding of a major American footwear brand, and several product and furniture lines.
romanandwilliams.com

Olson Kundig Architects. Projects. Seattle.

Olson Kundig Architects began with architect Jim Olson, whose work in the late 1960s explored the relationship between dwellings and the landscape they inhabit in the Northwest. Olson started the firm based on some simple ideas: that buildings can serve as a bridge between nature, culture and people, and that inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives. Rick Sundberg joined the firm in 1975, and its commitment to urbanism became evident as they began designing modern buildings in and around Seattle’s national historic districts. In 1996, Tom Kundig joined Olson and Sundberg as an owner, helping the firm grow internationally. Alan Maskin and Kirsten Murray joined the owners group in 2008, continuing the evolution of the firm. The firm now numbers over 80 employees. Olson Kundig Architects’ work, including museums, commercial design, academic buildings, exhibit design, interior design, places of worship and residences, often for art collectors, is now worldwide.
olsonkundigarchitects.com

Eames: The Architect and the Painter. Documentary film. 2011.

JASON COHN, Producer/Writer. BILL JERSEY, Producer. A First Run Feature film, NY.
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life-from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age-has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
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Andreas Stavropoulos. Airstream Life: Mobile Studio. California.

Video by The Werehaus. SF.
Andreas is a registered landscape architect in Berkeley California. He is the founder of XS LAND and teaches at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont. He is also the co-founder of ChickenCribs.com, home of the modern, self-assembly urban coop. Thanks for the tip Dave!
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The Aptos Retreat project. CCS Architecture. California.

2,800 square foot retreat residence comprising “a “living” building and a “sleep” building that overlap at their roofs to create a linkage and sheltered outdoor space.” Completed in 2009 and designed for a family of eight, this beautiful residence is located in inland from the beach town of Aptos, in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Move in? no prob.