recycled lamps and chandelier

this a temporary post. i'll get some better pics up soon.

recylced lamps

made for hangers and old bike parts

organelle

algoma central

i recently spent a few weeks in okoboji, iowa. and just outside of town there was an old passenger train. it was on highway 9, just parked outside a farm. i took a few photographs, unfortunately i wasn't able to do anything with the light.

underground manhatten

oh my god.
this is a great idea for the abandoned subway stations across manhatten. there will be rentable subway cars used for bars, wine cellars, restaurants, and whatever you want. using the space to make it available for private individuals to make their mark in the history of new york.

thanks bldgblog

i took these images from david sagarin
(an excellent photographer of the underground)

anyone who wants to learn the real plan for the subway extension,
go to the future beneath us.

swimming cities

SWOON has created these "junk rafts"- crafted from construction site cast-offs and recycled scraps. their manifesto is “bits of land broken off and headed to sea.” they're a part of a project called swimming cities. this is their third installment, one on the hudson, and one on the mississippi. this time their headed off to the adriatic sea, where their going from slovenia to venice.

lot-ek

this is by far my favorite architecture firm. they came from napoli, now they live in new york. where they openned this firm called lot-ek. they do buildings, renovations, objects, urban design and installations.

here an excerpt from their statement:

lot-ek is making architecture with existing objects, systems and technologies to be used as raw materials

lot-ek is the dialogue between existing objects and program needs to generate unexpected volumes/spaces

check it out: www.lot-ek.com







i don't know about the black text on the yellow background. come on guys. are you to make me vomit.

signage art

look at these cool trays/bowls made out of old recycled signs

by: boris bally

From Chicago With Love...

There is an incredible amount of active industry in Chicago, unlike any other major city we have been to. It is intermixed into the various neighborhoods, such that, a Trader Joes and CB2 abuts the trash heap you see below, for example.





Trying to find our way home, one drunken night when we had first moved here, we stumbled into a steel factory that was actually pouring bright hot iron ore. It was memorizing to watch, and surprisingly, no one kicked us out... in fact, one worker explained the process to us (at 3a.m.)





That same drunken night, Rebecca tried to climb a fence and explore the area depicted below, convinced doable, a good idea, and had water access... wrong!