Prairie garden and 75 foot long lap pool at the Vynbos project in Lagunitas, California. Designed by Bernard Trainor + Associates Landscape Architecture.
Koen Vlecken
Krohn & Hartvig | Architecture D’Aujourd’Hui | 267 1990: 69
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Alfred Hendrickx S3 Chairs, Sabena Airlines first class lounge, Brussels 1958
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Norway’s Atlantic Ocean Road
Accession by Ben Thomas.
“It’s a sad and beautiful world …”
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Top Gear: “Renault’s given us a mid-engined tribute to the R5 Turbo and Clio V6. Just a concept, it only serves to preview what the next Twingo will look like, but lordy it’s cool.
Called the Twin’Run, it was bolted together by a French motorsport chassis tuner, and features a spaceframe with composite bodywork on top, and a Mégane Trophy V6 in the middle. As in an actual 3.5-litre, 320hp engine from the manufacturer’s one-make racing series.”
So, this proper hooligan tool picks up where the R5 Turbo and Clio V6 left off. With almost triple the amount of power, it will be much much better than the very, very disapointing — but equally kawaii — Abarth 500 Esseesse. The Twin’Run ran its first laps at Monte Carlo during practice for last Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix, with RenaultSport’s boss behind the wheel.
The promo video is well, er… French. Call it Eurotrash or Eurocrash, I was amused to learn the music is from a DJ called ‘Birdy Nam Nam’. I wonder if the model in the R5 is meant to look like a man in drags — in reference to the villainous lady in the red R5 Turbo from Never Say Never Again ?
Business as usual (via Fria Tider)
“A meter maid issues a parking ticket for a burnt-out car following a night of riots in a Stockholm suburb. When questioned, the officer explained that the ticket was issued because the vehicle lacked a tag showing its time of arrival. The fact that the vehicle had been effectively destroyed – its windshield smashed and the interior heavily damaged by fire – was irrelevant according to her.” Befehl ist Befehl.
Brasilia em construção, 1959
Brasilia in Google Maps
Steve Martin rides with Satan at the wheel (John Candy) in Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Madison, WI by Adam Senatori
Mediterrrani 32 by Isern Associats. 190 sqm near Barcelona.
via love-england, by Scott McFadyen
An Italian architect, engineers at MIT, Coca-Cola and Bacardi teamed up to create Makr Shakr, three robotic cocktail shakers that er… mix drinks. Patrons were invited to download an app and create their own recipe before sending it to the robots to be mixed up. The cheap video editing tricks reveal the robotic movements are neither spectacular nor gracious - although the programmers did film a ballet dancer in action to inspire the robots’ gestures.
