The Tow-N-Stow, with its around 50 cubic feet of lockable, water resistant storage capacity, offers the users to tow up to 1000 lbs of substances including landscape mulch, plywood, soil, sports/camping gear, sports bikes and lawn tractors. Aside from using it as a towing cargo, it can be used as a great place for you to store your seasonal or recreational items outside the home by turning it into an upright outdoor storage unit in no time. The outer shell of this innovative design is reinforced with steel containing durable polymer using 7% post-consumer recycled material, making the unit a green product.
Designer : Arnie Wolfe
The shine birch lamp concept has been designed to make the birch shaped lamp become alive with great innovation that was created from the designer’s dream and love for people. The base of the 25 centimeter lamp can be easily gripped by one hand and combines 5 duplicating segments that make the lamp like a full bloomed flower. Each segment contains individual bulbs inserted inside and covered with matte Plexiglas, a matte plastic made lamp material, to make the lamp a unique piece. The 5 luminous bulbs give a lot of light to make a shiny and warm environment that will surely tickle the user’s heart.
Designer : Katherine Semenko
The Deco Rides Liner and Scoot concept is combined with a Lincoln Sedan Delivery 1939 car, modernized by unique front-wheel drive chassis design developed by a team under Gary Brown and a 92 Harley Sportstar. The car Deco Rides Liner took around 3 years to develop that features a 9-foot sliding area powered by an electric motor in the center of the car where the bike can fit in easily. Though both the car and the bike contain all the innovative facilities that can usually be seen in latest cars, they still got the conventional appearance both from inside and outside.
Designer : Decorides
The Arbo concept is a futuristic transportation vehicle that has been designed with an extremely extraordinary appearance. This capsule like electric car has two modes, when it is in driving mode, its quite hard to distinguish the front and rear end, and when its in arbor mode, the doors lift up with the roof above, making a perfect open place to enjoy the road. It comprises two batteries, the primary battery can be charged via usual 220v electricity, and solar energy has been used to charge the secondary battery. To make it more efficient, these two recharging system has been designed to share the resourced by supplying power to one another when anyone comes lack of power.
Designer : Jeongche Yoon
The Eurasian Gondolas is a concept transportation network with a length of 12,000 km and 2400 gondolas that has been envisioned to connect 31 cities with comfort of luxurious rooms, smooth traveling and ultimate safety. The main stations are situation in renowned cities like Istanbul, Bangkok, Dubai, Shanghai and Mumbai and the trip offers the boarders to get off and change their gondola around after every 300 km. The toned 360 degree panorama window allows enjoying perfect view and gives privacy at the same time. The five main stations along with other 24 stop-overs allows the user to choose their route as they prefer and offers luxurious hotel, restaurant, spa, amusement park and other different sightseeing spots in the area.
The spacious cabin contains a profligate observation deck, a full-featured Cineplex or a seven-star restaurant, all can be chosen by the passengers before getting on. This massive project gives a huge impulse to the research and development in renewable energy field by using zero carbon – zero waste policy.
Designer : Matthias Pázmándy
A big set of wonderful pictures of patterns that nature creates from National Geographic, as so to say – natural beauty.
Rocks
Reflections
Spider Webs
Star Trails
Flowers
Water
Aerial Views
Snow and ice
Source: nationalgeographic
Once upon a time, in Germany, the first gingerbread houses were built after bakers were inspired by the Brothers Grimm tale, Hansel and Gretel. Since that time, gingerbread house designs have exploded with popularity. Some gingerbread houses are not houses at all, but some have intricate architectural designs inside and out, more like a home with electricity. Here are some of the best gingerbread houses ever created. We hope you enjoy these 32 astounding architectural designs of gingerbread houses.
Historical Newfoundland Home
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For some families, constructing a gingerbread house is a family tradition. This house was inspired by the winner of the Newfoundland Historic award. The original house is believed to have been designed by W.F. Butler, famed for designing many grand Queen Ann Revival Style homes. The intricate details on this gingerbread house are astounding.
This Old House
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The Victorian gingerbread house in the upper left took two months to create and is a replica of the Carson mansion in Eureka, California. The pink Victorian Christmas house was another winner in This Old House gingerbread house contest. Townhouses are another popular gingerbread major undertaking that pleases contest judges. Mansions and Victorian creations are wildly popular undertakings, even when they are blue.
Gingerbread Mansion
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This is a replica of Winchester Mystery House, a Victorian mansion and architectural marvel in San Jose, California. The real house, unlike most homes of its era, was a 160-room Victorian mansion that had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors, to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail. The same holds true for the edible version.
Various Shapes and Sizes
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Most gingerbread masterpieces are replicas of actual architecture, made with great patience and an eye for detail. What makes them so sweet is not sugar, honey, or even icing. It is the amount of love that goes into the project, from designing the house, to baking the gingerbread, to putting it all together for hours, weeks, sometimes months.
Unusual Shaped Gingerbread Houses
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Not all gingerbread houses resemble a house. The top candy house is gingerbread but not warm and fuzzy with happy cheer. Enchanted lighthouse, complete with gingerbread mermaid and candy sea creatures was among the winners in a contest. The old mill house was another winner. The tree house, called Forever Autumn won the grand prize. There is no limit to what can be created in gingerbread house fashion, even Noah’s Ark.
Castles
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Castles are magnificent architecture. Gingerbread castles are equally as marvelous, edible too even if rarely is such a creation eaten. The Sugar Castle, displayed in the historic Westin St. Francis hotel in San Francisco, took over 400 hours to create and was modeled after European architecture. Some of these castles were National Gingerbread House competition winners, but we think they are all winners.
Lighted Detail of Victorian Rowhouse
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Family tradition in baking gingerbread houses tend to make each house grander than the year before. This house was inspired by the winner of the Newfoundland Historic award. The original house is believed to have been designed by W.F. Butler, famed for designing many grand Queen Ann Revival Style homes. The intricate details on this gingerbread house are astounding. It took about 60 hours to complete this fantastic Victorian Rowhouse.
White House
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Some bakers set their eye on a high prize, so large and impressive it could only be the White House. Most of these fabulous creations go on to win prizes. Some don’t look like they were created from gingerbread, but each one was. The ones turned from obvious gingerbread to a lighter house took the white in White House quite literally.
2008 White House
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This lighted wonder was a 2008 grand prize winner. Yes, it is made of gingerbread but this grand work of art will not be consumed as food. In fact, it might even have Secret Service protecting it.
Disney’s
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Disney never does anything on a small scale. Their 16 foot high gingerbread house even has a store inside of it. What do they sell? Gingerbread of course. This Disney house took 600 pounds of sugar, 800 pounds of flour and over 3,000 egg whites. Disney also created a carousel made of gingerbread and chocolate. To top it off, this merry-go-round actually works.
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As the battle over climate change is waged, there’s a group of sculptors who are leaping ahead of the crowd and utilizing wind power already. Artists create wind powered sculptures to make a statement about the combination between nature and art, or just because wind is a plentiful power source. Whether sculptures are kinetic or static, gritty and down to earth, or large and exotic, wind powered sculptures bridge the boundaries between man and nature.
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Joshua Allen Harris is known for his unique and enjoyable sculptures made out of garbage bags. Limp and lifeless, they lay on sidewalk grates like piles of garbage. The wind from a rushing subway train below, however, will slowly bring the garbage bags to life, as they fill with air and inflate into beautiful creatures. Passerby are surprised and delighted, as the mundane street debris turns into a delightful sculpture.
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Theo Jansen is a renowned Dutch artist who creates kinetic sculptures out of plastic tubes, that are more creature than art. He places these wind powered beasts on the coast and lets the wind give them a life of their own. A mix between engineering and art, they are entirely wind powered, and will shamble along without any need for direction or internal power sources.
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The artistry of kinetic sculpture is varied and beautiful. Wind causes these sculptures to twist and turn, and their counterbalances and carefully weighted components require only the slightest nudge to begin a random and undulating movement. Wind powered art is no longer just a fake wind mill sitting on your lawn, it now makes up exhibition pieces in some of the most famous museums the world over.
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It’s interesting how many artists like to emphasize the combination of natural forces and man made materials by creating wind powered sculptures in the shape of trees or organic looking structures. Some artists go an entirely different direction, however, by creating sculptures that look entirely alien and disconnected from nature, until the whistle of wind through their tubes reveal them to be just as connected as the rest of us.
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The Singing Ringing Tree is a musical structure found in Lancashire, England, which makes beautiful tones whenever a light breeze sweeps by its exposed tubes. With the effect of blowing over the open neck of a bottle, times a thousand, this structure fills the air with music. The Singing Ringing Tree makes wind chimes seem like child toys; its music and organic shape reawakens a passion for the natural world that’s unexpected from something constructed out of such industrial materials.
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Primary Flight is a Miami-based, collaborative curatorial organisation dedicated to the production of site-specific, street level, mural installations. The main photographer, Jeremiah Garcia took more than 800 decent images..I have sifted through and brought you what I think are the best Graff artists & other artists….I truly wish I could have been there in person to have witnessed this orgy of art…
