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As always we only bring the best books available. This one is about origami. The english author, Paul Jackson has been a professional paper folder and artist since 1982. It’s our bestseller!

FOLDING TECHNIQUES FOR DESIGNERS: FROM SHEET TO FORM

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I love it because it reminds me of the great Ansel Adams

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Dominus Winery in Napa Valley, California - Herzog & de Meuron

Photographs by Margherita Spiluttini

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This building is so much more brilliant than you'd guess from the pictures. The thick basalt rocks sourced from a nearby canyon ensure that the very modern building maintains a natural, local feel and simultaneously do an amazing job of keeping the building cool. These walls allow the building to use less energy as both the human inhabitants and the product are kept cool, ventilated, and shielded from the valley's warm climate. They augmented this natural quality of the rock by placing the wine in underground cellars, a naturally cooler place. You can see in the picture with light pouring through the gabion walls that the rocks at the bottom are smaller which is a brilliant way of keeping out snakes, rodents, and other local animals without making the building completely impervious to the nature around it. This building is one of those gems of architecture and technology. It serves it's purpose of highlighting the wine and the vineyard in it's unassuming and minimalist design and becomes such a natural part of the landscape. I only wish it was open to the public, I would love to see it.

#napa #winery

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As part of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development an enormous outdoor installation of fish was constructed using discarded plastic bottles on Botafogo beach in Brazil.

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Toshio Shibata

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Turntables driving a ball point pen.

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something i love and appreciate about music is how mathematic it is and this design is like a visual representation of the rhythm of music

#music #turntable

Sharks have always been my favorite animals. You know how every class has that horse kid that gallops around and neighs and eats the occasional blade of grass? Well I was a shark kid- I wore shark teeth necklaces, decorated my room with various pieces of shark carcasses, and brought a baby dog shark in a jar to every show-and-tell day I got.

All that is why this shark robot is so exciting to me. Developed by the US Navy, this GhostSwimmer employs the same mechanisms that fish use to propel themselves through the water. It can swim independently and can dive to depths of 300 ft (91.44 m), coming to the surface to transmit the data it has collected. What they'll use this little guy for is a mystery to me. Maybe replace the mammal program they have that trains dolphins and seals to detect bombs? Maybe put a camera on him and send him looking for treasure? Or maybe a fellow shark kid just got carried away with all the grant money he received? Either way, I whole-heartedly approve of our tax dollars funding an army of shark robots.

#robot #wired magazine #ghostswimmer #design #technology #security #usnavy #sharks

Do Ho Suh exhibit at The Contemporary | Austin,TX

#do ho suh #austin #south korea #new york #art #atx #texas

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Anish Kapoor.

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the quintessential southern garden, lush and green with spanish moss hanging from the tree

#neworleans #nola #anish kapoor #art

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The Taj Mahal | Agra, India

A mausoleum built in the early to mid 1600s by the emperor Shah Jahan, a great military mind and a charismatic leader of the Mughal Empire. He erected this building in honor of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, a woman praised by poets of the time for her grace and striking beauty. Although he has many wives, she was the nearest to his heart, even accompanying him on campaigns and participating as his military advisor. Their passionate and loving marriage ended with her death at the young age of 28. As a symbol of his great love for her and grief over her death, he had the Taj Mahal constructed. The building is beautiful in the extreme; it's decadence and stunning detail ensured that the building would forever stand as a symbol of his love for his wife. The scale of the building is breathtaking, it towers over the landscape and it's flawless marble exterior catches the light from it's surroundings allowing it to reflect the warmth of the hazy sunrise or the cool blue of a full moon. Equally stunning is the use of intarsia- a technique of setting stones in marble- which operates, not on the scale of the grand building, but on a more human scale. Once inlayed with precious stones, and now semi-precious materials, the attention to even the finest details sets the monument apart.

The use of rhythm, scale, and most of all beauty ensure the legacy of his beloved empress.

#taj mahal #india #architecture #agra #mausoleum