While a tad late with this, couldn’t just let it slide.
Billionaire Boys Club – Ice Cream released their season 12 lookbook a short couple of weeks ago, and just added this video to go along w/ it. The brand has definitely grown up a bit. The lookbook can be looked at !!here!!
Billionaire Boys Club® Season 12 Lookbook – Promo from Billionaire Boys Club® on Vimeo.
Vacationing on an island is how the uber-rich spend their leisure time. Indulging in a relaxing resort-style experience will get even richer with the Floating Pleasure islands concept by Marina Housing, a company based in Espoo, Finland, which specializes in developing floating housing areas and other floating structures. The islands are anchored to the seabed with seaflex rubber cable anchors. The floating islands rise along with the water level, but do not interfere with the water currents owing to their heavy-duty eps-filled concrete platform, which makes the structure very stable. The islands are landscaped with artificial beaches, hills and growing soil for palms and growing other plants. All the islands have a mooring place for six tenders or small boats and islands B and C can even dock a 60-foot yacht for easy accessibility. The floating islands have the potential to become the hottest destination with the uber-rich if it’s actually developed in the future.
by MARINA HOUSING
Pharrell Williams is one half of super-production team The Neptunes. A few days ago, I posted Chad hard at work in the studio…now here’s Skateboard P showing off his Miami home.
Looks like he loves BAPE, KAWS, FamilyGuy and Louis Vuitton among many other things…
More pictures here – Pharrell’s Crib
This chair is made for anyone that spends an inordinate amount of time at the office. I know many people that would love this, so if you have a spare $500 dollars, think Christmas.
Available at THANKO.JP
While this phone might not look like it can do half the things your average smartphone can. It does look nice.
Designed by Japanese artist Mac Funamizu, click on his name to check out this freelance designer’s blog.
just a picture but if you grew up w/ the Transformers, Like my son is now(!!), or like I did, this is a pretty cool looking ice sculpture. Standing 8 meters tall.
The trailer for TRANSFORMERS DARK OF THE MOON should be in theaters within the next two weeks attached to the new Narnia or Tron movies.
The Sinking Love Boat.
Named the LOVE LOVE, this boat is designed to look like its sinking while in actuality it is fully seaworthy and safe. Nice concept, sure to turn heads everywhere it goes/sails.
This ship isn’t sinking. It’s “Love, Love” by Julien Berthier, a boat that’s been modified to appear as though it’s capsizing. The ship was originally a 6.5 meter yacht that was sliced in half and outfitted with a new keel which keeps it upright at all times. Apparently it’s actually seaworthy, and he has toured it around Europe. Watch the video of it in action after more. Berthier writes:
“Love-love is the permanent and mobile image of a wrecked ship that has become a functional and safe leisure object. “
Coming soon (sometime in 2012) to Taiwan is this sci-fi inspired tower. At 390-meters, it is designed to serve as an observation deck, office tower, museum, and urban park.
Designed by Romanian firm Dorin Stefan Birou Arhitectura
The project was inspired by the leaf, the shape of the island of Taiwan, and other Taiwanese symbols. Eight zeppelin-like elevators serve as observation decks for the tower and run on a track positioned vertically in a strong electro‐magnetic field. Each deck can carry from 50 to 80 people up to the top for stunning views of the city.
The tower houses vertical axis wind turbines and a facade covered in photovoltaic powers for renewable energy generation. Geothermal heat pumps help reduce the energy needed to heat and cool the facility, while fiber optic cables bring natural light into the museum.
Having just been in Buenos Aires a few days ago, I can say it’s highly unlikely a place like this would see the light of day…BUT…I can always hope. Vertical Zoo concept.
Hila Davidpu, Tal Gazit, Eli Gotman, and Hofi Harari recently shared their “ECO-CLIFF” proposal for the Buenos Aires Vertical Zoo Competition. The “ECO-CLIFF” is a revolutionary tower that will serve as a nesting ground for thousands of migrating birds as well as an ecological habitat for the different animals and species of the “Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve Zoo”.
Wrapped around a rigid structure, a system of nets and steel cables of varying densities covers the different functions, while maintaining, from a distance, the tower’s image of an organic cliff.
The perforated skin of the tower will allow the controlled penetration of natural light and fresh air as well as rain water, in preferred areas, along with a system of green vegetation ingrained in the netting system, thus creating a small eco-system within the buildings boundary.
In order to minimize the damage to the reserve by motored vehicles and the reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions in the city, the Eco-Cliff’s main entrance is via a cable-way which connects to a public transportation system. As an option, we suggest to re-use the old mill silos at Puerto Madero as a possible gateway station, therefore connecting the Av. De Mayo urban axis and subway station to the Costanera Sur Reserve.
As one of its primary functions, the Eco-Cliff will accommodate a variety of migrating birds which pass the Costanera Sur Reserve each year. The migrating birds nesting areas would accompany the human visitors along their ascending path throughout the varied elements of the tower, including the different animal spaces and the observation decks.
The cliff- like tower seeks to be self-sustained with the help of photovoltaic cell system along with an ecological recycling and water treatment facilities.
By taking a unique eco-educational point of view, the Eco-Cliff would create an unforgettable educating experience to the visitor on board as well as a spectacular landmark for the Costanera Sur Reserve and the city of Buenos Aires skyline.
Great looking spot, plus it serves a good purpose.
Solus4 entered their concept into a design competition in Indonesia, where they stated that the marine research center (housed 150m from the popular Kuta beach) would focus on tsunamis—specifically, getting an earlier head’s up on them, in wake of the 2004 disaster.
Not only would the research center have laboratories for working in, but it’d also contain bedrooms for the workers and even a seawater pool. You have to wonder why they’d need a pool with all that glorious water surrounding the vessel, but I do like the sound of the proposed aquatic garden library, too. Only if I could keep one of Ringo’s octopi in the garden, in the shade, of course.
To find out more about this project, check out DesignBoom.com
