A boutique hotel in Barcelona is designed to channel everyone’s favorite brooding Wes Anderson character. Where are the cigarette burns?
Margot Tenenbaum—the excessively eyelined, mink-clad Wes Anderson character who’s inspired many a Halloween costume—has expanded her influence into the hospitality industry. Margot House, a boutique hotel in Barcelona, pays homage to the fictional character with a design that supposedly channels Margot’s now iconic preppy bad-girl style.
Can architecture be future-proof? OMA reckons so and has created a mutable behemoth that combines offices, housing, retail, and more.
There’s no shortage of grand gestures in high-profile buildings tailored like a bespoke suit for a specific client and function. Once the original tenant moves out, however, the structures are often gutted—which is expensive—or demolished—which is taxing on the environment. In designing Rotterdam’s new city hall—dubbed the Timmerhuis—the Office for Metropolitan Architecture opted for a multi-purpose approach. Intended to be future-proof, the pixelated mixed-use structure can morph over time, demonstrating a new paradigm for sustainable urban design.
The Reality Editor is a Minority Report style AR app that makes programming your smart home as easy as connecting the dots.
The end goal of the Internet of Things is to make every object in your life programmable. But our smart objects are still pretty dumb. They don’t talk to each other, and most are only capable of doing one thing; a smart lightbulb for instance can dim and brighten but it can’t tell your TV to change the channel for you. The result of three years of research at MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Lab, Valentin Heun’s Reality Editor aims to address these problems. It’s an augmented reality app that lets you link the smart objects around you together, just by drawing connections with your finger between them.
“Everything we do is about storytelling,” Stout says.
The cover of Texas Monthly‘s July 1992 issue features an portrait of then governor Ann Richards sitting on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. She’s dressed head to toe white leather, her hair is coiffed in her signature gray bouffant, and she stares confidently at the camera. To DJ Stout, the cover’s designer, this portrait of Richards, 60 years old at the time, was “the perfect metaphor for capturing her salty wit and irreverent personality,” he once wrote. In a fleeting glance, readers knew it wasn’t business as usual at the Texas statehouse. The audacious concept is also one of the perfect examples of Stout’s evocative, eclectic approach to visual design.
The comedian came up with his new Adult Swim series “Neon Joe” as a joke for Fallon, so we had him make up MORE show concepts on the fly.
It’s the kind of story that could drive anyone with a polished script languishing on their hard drive to an appointment with the nearest ledge: Comedian, actor, and writer Jon Glaser got a series greenlit based entirely on an off-the-cuff joke.
As the world eats more meat, methane emissions from livestock are becoming a bigger climate concern. It’s time to take that seriously.
Our food habits are a big cause of climate change. Because the world wants to eat more animal products these days, the cow, sheep and goat population is growing (3.6 billion at last count), and consequently more emissions are going into the atmosphere. We tend to associate global warming with industry and energy generation, but ruminants shouldn’t be forgotten. Collectively, they produce more than 11% of human-related greenhouse gas emissions, a study last year showed.
Despite generous paid leave policies, examples set by the CEOs of Facebook and Yahoo may have a bigger impact on how much employees use.
Paid parental leave has become one of the most talked about issues in 2015. Netflix just revised its already expanded policy to offer between 12-16 weeks off to its hourly workers.
Product Hunt’s newly overhauled iOS app turns the recommendation site into something much more useful.
When Product Hunt launched over two years ago, it seemed like an unlikely success story: A site for posting, up-voting, and commenting on apps, websites and other products? Isn’t the Internet awash in enough recommendation engines?
Code-named “Big Sur,” the new computing architecture is the result of 18 months of design work with partners like Quanta and Nvidia.
Facebook said today it has developed a new computing system aimed at artificial intelligence research that is twice as fast and twice as efficient as anything available before.
As platforms like Facebook and Twitter struggle with safety, an insurance company is selling a policy to compensate.
A U.S.-based insurance company announced a new policy this week that specifically covers the damage of online abuse.
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