Bird Series Pumps

From Kobi Levi, the Bird Series pumps are modeled after Mallards, Swans and Tucans for their unique and identafiable coloring/shape. If you like these, check out his controversial sex doll inspired shoes.

Soca

I am enamored with this chair from Soca. Isn't the citron cushon and relaxed posture just spot on?

Victoria Spruce Shoes

I'd daydreaming about slipping these on my feet and heading to cocktails. Aren't they charming? Check out more from designer Victoria Spruce here.

VOID V01

Hong Kong designer David Ericsson has put together this hot little number. Named VOID V01, the simple geometric design is compromised of mineral glass, copper and has a leather strap. Learn more at the Dezeen Watch Store.

Buro by DesignWright for Lexon

London-based Brothers Adrian and Jeremy Wright have released this set of stackable color-coded stationary in their DesignWright studio. The fantastic design was created in collaberation with Lexon.

Hong Kong PSi Tower by Michael Young

Great Brittan's Michael Young has designed a tower for Hong Kong with faceted surfaces that will change according to weather and lighting conditions.

The project is called PSi Tower and will house apartments, offices, a public outdoor space and an outdoor theater. To be constructed in the Wang Chai Cultural District, the plans will be unveiled in 100% Design Shanghai come November.


View more at Dezeen.

Slim Cup by Sharona Merlin

The slim cup is a project from Israeli student Sharona Merlin of the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Sleek and modern, I'm not sure how useful the product is, but I personally never finish a full cup of morning tea...

Merlin notes:

The title of the course was “Combination of tradition and technology” and my interpretation for this title was the way things get slimmer as technology moves forward.

Therefore, my concept was taking the traditional ceramic cup and making it slimmer. My vision was seeing the cup’s icon on the front side but as it turns, it’s slimness appears. I’m now working on designing a line of slim ceramics tableware.

KRUZIFIX by Stefan Strumbel

Neon colors and bright stripes cover these crucifixes by artist Stefan Strumbel from the Black Forest in Germany. These pieces are part of a solo show, "Home Sweet Home," which focuses on folk art and the symbolism of home within each piece. Strumbel exaggerates this concept with pop-art inspired design. The artist's intent is to dissolve and transform the cliched notions of home into an allegory of social status symbols.

Ark House by Axis Mundi

New York studio Axis Mundi designed Ark House, a project to be set in the mountainside of Madison Valley, Montana. Featuring a 60 foot internal bridge, the building will feature two steeply-sloping roof structures.

The living areas and bedrooms of the four-story barn-like structure will overlook the mountains, as well the home features a 4800 sq ft observation deck.


A word from the design team (headed by John Beckmann):

Montana’s Western mountains have been lifted and folded by plate tectonics and sculpted by glaciers over millions of years. The project is situated on a sloping windswept bluff overlooking Beaver Head National Forest with extraordinary views of Big Sky Mountain.

In a world which is increasingly becoming placeless, our clients requested that we design their home with cultural specificity. It should be of its time, yet be part of the place they love – the vast ancient landscape of Montana.

A House Made of Two by Akio

Japanese architect Akio Nakasa has completed his A House Made of Two project in Kanagawa, Japan. The design features two side-by-side homes meant for a single family.

View more at Dezeen.

Photographs are by Toshiyuki Yano/Nacasa & Partners.

MD. net Clinic Akasaka by Nendo

Japanese firm Nendo have completed their interior design of a mental health clinic in Akasaka, Tokyo, where the doors do not open and patients and staff move around the building by opening sections of the walls.

The facility includes sliding bookcases in which consultation rooms are found and a single opening door at the end of the corridor which reveals a window to the outside.


Nendo explains:

Rather than getting patients back to a ‘zero’, a neutral starting place, the traditional model for mental health care, the clinic aims to provide patients with something extra: a further richness in their daily lives that they did not have before starting treatment. The interior design is an attempt to express this philosophy in space.

Split Level House

Design studio Qb has completed a house in Philadelphia that features a glazed interior wrapped in a curved brick facade. I love the clean and precise feel of this 3-Story home.


Named Split Level House, the interior features bleached and blackened oak, polished steal and concrete. I imagine filling the home with Muji products.

A note from the designer:

Sited on a vacant corner in Philadelphia, this newly constructed house stitches itself into the neighborhood by responding to local cues. Curved brick corners negotiate the irregular street grid, while the cadence of typical rowhouses and a palette of brick volumes and stone bases are translated into a new vocabulary.

Housing 137

Located in Barcelona and designed by studio H Arquitectes, Housing 137 's trademark shutters seem to disappear into the stone-clad facade.

Terraces and balconies have been sculpted from wooden recesses.

From the designers:

The Urban Planning for ‘Plaça de l’Església’ in Granollers intends to regain the role of this square within the old part of town...The three facades of the building become a single skin that, thank to the continuous use of the stone even in the shutters, unifies the volume and consolidates the characteristic predominance of the massive-wall facades in the old quarter.Basalt stone has been used due to the fact that because of its porosity and texture constantly changes in colour and reflection according to the different degrees of humidity...The changing rhythm of the shutters that appear and disappear, as they are open or closed, project on the façade the interior life of the dwellings.

Urban Forest from MAD Architects

With the goal of bringing "the affection for nature lost in the Oriental ancient world," to city dwellers, Beijing's MAD architects have designed a skyscraper: Urban Forest.

The 385 foot building is MAD's third sky scraper, following the Absolute Towers in Toronto and the Sinosteel in Tianjin, China.

The architects envision a stack of horizontally shifted floors, each with a sustainable foliage. View more diagrams at Dezeen.

Bread Shoes

Let's discuss Bread Shoes by brothers R&E Praspaliauskas: they come in a variety of doughs and sizes- each pair in a box. Children's sizes are also available.