Iller Hydroplant - Becker Architekten

Hydroplant by Becker Architekten on the Iller river South-West Germany.

http://www.a10.eu/magazine/issues/37/hydroelectric_power_station_kempten.html
http://www.becker-architekten.net/index.html

Thought this place was amazing, it's like a piece of Glacier has floated down the river and got wedged here.
Generates enough power for 3000 homes apparently...

Reminded me of Zaha Hadid's Sand Dune inspired furniture which are interesting but I think these amorphous work better on a larger scale.

Cascade - Atelier van Lieshout

I just saw this and thought I would post this for purely pesonal reasons. I worked in Rotterdam for a while and I often cycled by this sculpture by Atelier Van Lieshout an thought it was interesting. I just saw a blog post of it from 5th March 2010 saying it was going up in Rotterdam the next day, turns out we arrived in Rotterdam on the same day. I'm sure this isn't interesting for most people...

I suppose it's quite "dark" really and as the Dezeen post said "evokes associations with the current economic crisis, the exhaustion of raw materials and the bankruptcy of the consumer society" but for me it can't help having a humourous quality, the figures look like Morph...

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New work is not long off!

Here is a little sneaky view of something I've been doing...

It is honestly more than just a cushion...

Els Woldhek

http://www.whatels.net/index.php?/naturally-false/

I just saw this and remembered I had seen some work by this designer in London this year, I really like it. Using veneer and copperplating, both usually just used for decorative purposes but here also structural. Ended up with some really organic looking objects, especially the copper growths. The overal organic, kind of wobbly look reminds me a little of some Maarten Baas work.

Beta Tank - Taxing Art

http://www.betatank.net/taxing-art.html

I saw someone had blogged a chair by Beta Tank just like this table which reminded me I had seen these people in Basel. A really interesting take on the Art-Design debate. This is a table but once you turn the squares over to make lots of pyramids it loses it's function and is now art. Meaning in Germany initially it would be taxed as a functional object at 19%. Turn the pyramids and it will be taxed 7% as a work of art.

The same is true of this box of hammers/work of art/coffee table. On the way to basel someone on the border will have decided which category this fits into.

Christoph Thetard - R2B2

This is Christoph Thetard's final project at Bauhaus-University Weimar.

Designed to reduce energy use in the kitchen a foot pedal and flywheel power a coffee grinder, food processer and hand blender. Looks like something Brunel would make...

Has other nice work at http://christoph-thetard.de/christoph-thetard.de/Blog-engl/Blog-engl.html

Sylvia Pichler

Nice lamps...

Used to have some of this tape kicking about the flat. Missed opportunity...