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The world should have known that the spawn of Jef Raskin, the “father” of the Macintosh computer, would one day revolutionize a genre of his own - office furniture. Enter the Bloxe, interlocking pieces of cardboard that click together like a life-size lego set to form walls, benches and tables. Aside from its green credentials (far superior to the toxic particle board that most office furniture is made of), the air spaces within the Bloxes help to dampen sound, so you won’t ever have to hear your cubicle mate fighting with her fiancee again! Plus the assemble process looks like a bit of fun if you are mechanically inclined.

The Vanishing Point, a site dedicated to urban exploration and secrets of the built environment, has a page about the massive abandoned Tailrace tunnel at Niagara Falls. (The entire Vanishing Point site is mesmerizing, rich with great writing and fantastic photography.) Part of the decommissioned Toronto Power Co. hydroelectric plant, the tunnel is ten stories underground and only accessible through a hidden slit in the ceiling. From Vanishing Point: Lying below a river that will relentlessly tear into the bedrock until all has been obliterated from Queenston to Erie, this tunnel thirty-three feet in diameter is imprinted into my being forever. A swirling army of red brick millions strong, the eye of a petrified hurricane leading us right into the centre of the stalled but fighting storm that is Niagara Falls. Standing in its back-blast, in a place far deeper and darker than any middling storm sewer, I breathed and drank from the fount of the universe and swam closer to its centre than I ever will again.Link (via DIGG)

In retaliation, So Me's devised a video that would get back at them and he succeed with flying colours - the t-shirts in the D.A.N.C.E. video slid right under the radar of France's TV censors and sales boomed:

the uae's eco-war is on fire.

“A view on Dubai” by Rem Koolhaas, Architect, Founder of OMA, The Netherlands - will no doubt be awesome. Sunday 16 March. 07:30 pm XVA courtyard Dubai by Rem Koolhaas

Brian Jungen's "Shapeshifter" and "Cetology" made from plastic chairs.

io9 found this great concept by Norweigian design architects BIG which places a hotel against the side of a mountain with the idea that hotel patrons can finish off a ski or snowboard run by riding directly to their floor. The hotel looks absolutely epic, and I like the way the wavy lines of the hotel match the tracks left on snow by skis and snowboards. [BIG via io9]

"That we are here today is testimony to the courage of Alstom, because during its worst period it decided not to sacrifice its research and development," Mr Sarkozy said in front of the new train at Alstom's rail test centre in La Rochelle, western France.

The House that Shaped an Architectural Generation: Frank Gehry’s First ‘Deconstructivist’ Building

Una alfombra roja seduce a los visitantes a entrar en el teatro a través de una escalera monumental, lo que subraya el amplio hall de entrada levantado en torno a las salas de cine y teatro, que conduce a la cafetería.

Many times we have found ourselves in a restaurant, café, or even a public library without a secure place to hang our jackets or hand bags. We either uncomfortably hang our belongings on a public coat rack, or across the back of our chair for the world to see. With “Chair Wardrobe”, we can confidently place our belongings in a secure location and keep them within reach. The “Chair Wardrobe” is a design concept by Erohina Yulia that allows for the outside of the chair to appear as a normal chair, but the secret is the inside storage or wardrobe for your special items. The design is made of two different colored plastics signifying the double features of the chair. The choice to use different wood or textiles is also available.

Finally someone has put on paper what we all have thought for years.

Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets of wood, metal or even cardboard. In addition to being clever and simply aesthetically awesome, flat pack furniture is also eco-friendly and highly creative. Without further ado, here are 20 more examples of incredibly compact and transforming furniture for cramped urban living.

Xerox today unveiled the most sweeping changes to its logo and brand in the companyss history. This morning CEO Anne Mulcahy and president Ursula Burns hosted a town hall meeting and live webcast that first revealed the new logo and brand identity to Xerox’s 57,000 global employees.

With the technological boom of the last century came a huge increase in construction capability, and rivers, seas or valleys which were once thought to be completely uncrossable were finally overcome by the advent of numerous new, spectacular bridges. So in honour of these incredible engineering achievements, we have selected our favourite few bridges from around the world. We have the very old, the very new, the very-nearly-finished, the very long and of course the ones which just look very, very cool. Take your pick!

Yes, Latin Jazz, American Journalists, and the Year of the Rat are all very noteworthy new USPS stamps for 2008, but we're about to hoard these Charles and Ray Eames sets at our local post office. (So sorry in advance if you go to the same post office as us.)

A new ad in Australia highlights the dangers of crossing the road with your MP3 player rumbling your inner ear canal at full volume. And of course, it shows the iPod in a new twist of Apple's original silhouettes campaign, now using the headphones cable as a way to draw the place in which a body lies dead. Ah, nothing like a great morbid image to start up a pre-Macworld Wednesday.

The University of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Visual Technologies is developing VideTrace. I don't think it's available to the public yet. The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modelled over one or more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a realistic 3D model. Each of the sketching operations in VideoTrace provides an intuitive and powerful means of modelling shape from video, and executes quickly enough to be used interactively. Immediate feedback allows the user to model rapidly those parts of the scene which are of interest and to the level of detail required. The combination of automated and manual reconstruction allows VideoTrace to model parts of the scene not visible, and to succeed in cases where purely automated approaches would fail.Link (Thanks, Conor!)

The Pixel House is an interesting project designed by Mass Studies and has an innovative design and a curve like geometry. It just looks like each pixel of stone jelled together to create this astonishing building, which apparently gives you an effect similar to that of a 3-dimensional picture.