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Archiporn from Hotel Puerta America in Madrid! Each floor is designed by a different architect/designer.

Beautiful cut and spliced photography by Osaka based Palla aka Kazuhiko Kawahara. He will also provide photographs that’ll be used for visual development of the warping environments and buildings for the upcoming open-source movie A Swarm of Angels. You can vote for your favorite here.

Mc’s garage shot with my mobile and polaroized here

an architect’s nightmare…

I just got back from Designertopia in London which was pretty cool and inspiring (thx) but nothing ‘really new’ except Ray Hammond’s amazing prophecies about the future. And while reading some local press I discovered Kabaret Prophecy, a tiny club with an amazing visual installation done by UVA. LED love for next visit!

Every building has a shape and seen from above some of them even look like letters. With this nice little mash-up you can write and send geogreetings. Cool!

or on something else?

The Wind Shaped Pavilion is a design proposal for a large fabric structure that can be used as a public or private pavilion. As a lightweight fabric structure, the wind slowly and randomly rotates each of the six segments around a central open support frame. This continually alters the shape of the pavilion, while at the same time generating electrical power for its nighttime illumination…Great alternative for the future!

Well, I’m still renovating my house and as expected there are some delays for numerous reasons so I have plenty of time to look for a decent kitchen. I won’t buy a branded kitchen as I prefer something custom made and functional. I’m not a cook at all but the kitchen is a place where you spend a lot of time, so for me it’s an important place in a house. As we’re finalizing the plans for the kitchen, here are some inspirations from the Designboom 2006 competition. The entry above called “taste dj” is quite amazing and reminds me of Charley Case’s video installation comparing a cook and a scratcher or Mathew Herbert’s concert at Sonar where he was cooking on stage while sampling the sounds and feeding the audience at the end of his gig. Mmmm, Kitchen Inferno! Burn Baby! Burn!