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ROA in Australia – Urban Art meets the Outback

ROA is one of the most illustrious / notorious urban street artists in the world. ROA’s artworks show that “Spray Can art” can be very intense, curious and beautiful.
ROA paints intriguing murals of animals in hidden places – underneath bridges and on walls that strayed from the beaten path. Based in Ghent, Belgium, ROA is [...]

Australians @ World Architecture Festival 2011

The WAF Awards celebrate architectural excellence the world over and allow architects to showcase their talent and their unique responses to the ever-changing economic climate. There is now an increasing need for innovative approaches to architecture, inspiring architects and designers to think in new ways about buildings.

(Michael Heenan – Allen Jack + Cottier Architects)
Australia once [...]

Container Architecture = Pop Up Architecture ? or Cargotecture ?

The NRW-Forum Duesseldorf (Germany) invited renowned architects, designers, and artists from around the world to submit designs for container architecture.
The ‘Container Architecture’ exhibition offers a fascinating overview of what is possible. Submissions included not only existing container buildings, but also new designs that were created especially for the exhibition.
24 of these designs have been reconstructed as [...]

Escama – Upcycled fashion

Upcycling, as it is referred to is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new better products – turning trash into treasure. Humble materials elevated through design and integrity.

Based in San Francisco and Brazil, Escama Studio makes beautiful recycled fashion accessories using crochet and recycled aluminum pull-tabs.

The Escama “Capsule Collection 2011″ takes Escama [...]

Richard Buckminster Fuller – Dymaxions, Geodesic Domes, the Universe & Sir Norman Foster

Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the great American creative thinkers of the 20th century.
Philosopher, forecaster, designer, poet, inventor, and advocate of alternative energy, Fuller is probably best known as the originator of the geodesic dome, but his theories and innovations engaged fields ranging from mathematics, engineering, and environmental science to literature, architecture, and [...]