Estudi Josep Cortina has designed the Umo Japanese Restaurant as part of Hotel Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.
Design: Estudi Josep Cortina
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Seabob Cayago F7 Underwater Jetski Allows You to Move Just Like A Dolphin At Depth or On The Surface
Underwater world is fascinating, exploring this world with Seabob Cayago F7 Underwater Jetski would be a great experience for anyone. This cool vehicle features strength, technological intelligence, and great function to allow you swim like a fish, just like James Bond in Thunderball. This watercraft utilizes powerful engine that generates over 700 Newtons of thrust and reaches the speed of up to 9mph or 15km/h. This extraordinary performance is regulated by 10 gears along with precise up shifts for different individual driving styles. The company claims the jet system used in this watercraft is the first in the world that features an impeller, an electric powered rotor that sucks water and fires it out back out of the jetski.
From : Seabob
Take your water sports at a new level. This watercraft allows you to dive safely underwater, it’s possible to move through water just as smooth as a dolphin, both on the surface or at depth. The hydrodynamic shape makes this vehicle pretty agile in the water, you can steer and dive using your own bodyweight to angle it. The nice onboard computer display informs you about power usage, water temperature, speed, and depth. Driving is easy, you can use controlgrips to regulate your speed, with its motorization between 3HP and 7HP, it’s a child’s play to drive. Most people consider this watercraft is for children and teens, in fact, adults enjoy this water toy as much as kids.
Made in Germany, Seabob Cayago F7 Underwater Jetski encourages you to re-discover water, it is fantastically engaging with many actions in water and unlimited thrills. For safety purpose, all underwater jetski models from Seabob have been set at 2.5 meters but scuba divers can use the on-board electronics to set the diving depth to a maximum of 40 meters.
Seabob Cayago F7 Underwater Jetski Allows You to Move Just Like A Dolphin At Depth or On The Surface is originally posted on Tuvie
Google Amsterdam by D/DOCK
D/DOCK have designed the offices for Google in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Project description
The garage where founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google, was the inspiration for the interior concept. Quirky elements throughout the office illustrate this era – from graffiti walls and cardboard box lights to the exposed ceilings and container wall in the 70-seater auditorium, also referred to as the Tech Talk.
Sustainability played a vital role in the restyling of the office. Existing meeting furniture, individual work places and parts of the micro-kitchens were offered a second life after refurbishment. D/DOCK adhered to Google’s healthy material list by using non-toxic materials only and designed with a great focus on energy and water consumption.
Situated in the Southern part of Amsterdam, the office is considered as an intelligent landscape. Each floor features its own cave; the zone build around the core of the building where all general facilities such as meeting rooms, huddle rooms, video booths and micro kitchens are located. The neighborhoods with the individual work places surround this central cave and represent the various departments. Every work place is adjacent to the window affording all employees a 180° view overlooking the city while working. This layout makes the office space highly adaptable. It allows the Googlers to communicate and work together in a diverse environment while having personal space at the same time.
Each floor gives a nod to typically Dutch elements – whether it is the carrier cycle reception desk, the Stroopwafel ceiling panels, Gingerbread wall covering or the Delft Blue graphics in the restaurant. The re-used Febo snack wall that once served the Amsterdam cafeteria, now acts as a distribution point of computer accessories. For those wanting to spice up their meeting, the real life sixties caravan in the middle of the office is the solution. It is nowhere close to an ordinary meeting room with the comfy cushions and cozy vintage furniture.
According to D/DOCK’s partner Coen van Dijck, the Amsterdam office is a feel good office. “It is a place that makes the employee perform better by offering a work environment that meets their needs”, he explains. “Happiness, comfort, flexibility, relaxation, well balanced nutrition, exercise, daylight, fresh air and visual stimulation are some of the fundamentals that makes this office a healthy one”, van Dijck continues. Google’s Healthy Food program ensures well-balanced menus in the restaurant, seating up to 80 Googlers. The gym, meditation room and the desk bikes all offer opportunities to stay in shape, both physically and mentally.
Design: D/DOCK
Photography: Alan Jensen
Compact Iota Folding Toilet Concept Drastically Reduces Water Waste
As space becomes more expensive and smaller, we need more innovations to company our compact living space, including smaller bathroom. Iota Folding Toilet has smaller size compared to standard toilet, it’s almost 1/3 smaller and saves up to 10,000 liters of water/person/year. Just in case you didn’t realize it, ordinary toilet tends to use excessive water due to large volumes of water used to force waste around water trap in order to leave you with only clean water in the trap. In order to reduce the water waste and size, a new mechanism is introduced to allow the bowl of toilet to be folded away.
Iota looks like a snail to us, a smart solution to use less water compared to standard toilet. It has small footprint, folded in upright position, the rimless design makes sure it’s easy to keep the bowl clean. This bowl contains inbuilt U bend that disengages from waste pipe while maintaining an air tight seal. In a closed, flush position, this U bend re-engages simultaneously when the storage tank flushes. If a standard toilet requires 6 liters of water to flush, Iota only requires 2.5 liters, yes, that is less than 50% reduction.
Designers : Gareth Humphreys and Elliott Whiteley
How does it work?
Iota’s internal frame supports the bowl using a sliding hinge mechanism and a nylon roller. This hinge is the one that keeps bowl straight and operates flush mechanism while the nylon roller takes the weight of user and transfers it through the frame to the floor. The hinge system makes sure any industrial looking frame doesn’t interfere with the clean aesthetics of the exterior, it also prevents any gaps that might compromise cleanliness and structural ability of the bowl.
Iota Folding Toilet concept is one of toilet designs submitted to The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) Student Design Awards where the goal is to re-invent the toilet and make it more environmentally friendly.
Compact Iota Folding Toilet Concept Drastically Reduces Water Waste is originally posted on Tuvie
Fitzroy Residence by Carr Architecture
Carr Architecture have completed the contemporary renovation of a family home, located in Melbourne, Australia.
Project description
The renovation of this Brunswick Street House effortlessly marries together two architectural influences – a refined industrial aesthetic and traditional Victorian architecture.
In many ways, the story behind this inner-city renovation is a common one: a young family had spent the past five years living in a dark two-storey terrace and wanted to make it lighter and more accommodating for their two young children.
Although inner-urban projects of this type usually stick to a formula, Carr’s approach is far from generic. While the floorplan of the house is what one might expect, the subtle detailing and robust forms reveal a deep consideration and design intellect.
Behind an idyllic heritage-listed facade is a spatial arrangement typical of the period: a formal living room and study are arranged off a hallway at the front, before opening up to an open plan kitchen, dining and living area typical of contemporary terrace refurbishments.
The treatment of an existing light well ensures an engaging connection between the old and new sections of the house. From the study it also offers views through to the rear garden and living spaces.
The semi-industrial detailing of the immediate vicinity is referenced in the steel framed windows and projecting steel canopies. The architectural expression of projecting steel portals serve to limit the penetration of the western sun.
The palette is intentionally achromic with natural timber, calacutta marble to ebonised veneer providing a backdrop to the owner’s contemporary art collection.
Framed and borrowed views, guided by a refined industrial aesthetic are rooted in the Fitzroy context whist being true to Carr Design principles.
Design: Carr Architecture
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