The cool concept for a new environmental education center
What can you make with 65 old, used shipping containers? How about a huge building with an amphitheater, offices and a sustainable development educational center.
Spot Cool Stuff has previously reported on creative shipping container architecture. We've had dinner with a prominent shipping container architect who designed Rhode Island's Box Office. ...
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Mark Twain meets Steve Jobs
Dusty books never sounded so good.
In a marketplace full of shinny, modern docks for MP3 players, California artist Rich Neeley went old school when designing his iPod product. Or, perhaps we should say back to school. Neeley's iPod chargers are all made from classic, discarded books.
His literary iPod-ification ...
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Telecommute from your own pre-fab pod
If you have a backyard you can have a private office. So says OfficePod, a British company that manufactures eponymous pre-fabricated one-room office structures.
When designing their OfficePod the company had four goals for the product:
A self-contained space that exceeded all standard office regulations & requirements.
An office that ...
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In the desert, a resort carved into the rock
With enough money, modern technology and piped-in water anyone can build a luxury resort in the middle of a desert. (Exhibit #1: Las Vegas.) But building a luxury resort in the middle of the desert in a completely environmentally sustainable way—that's a challenge. Yet Oppenheim, an architecture firm based in ...
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The Training Dresser and cartoon-inspired designs
With respect to the philosophy held by those tiger mothers amongst our readers, childhood should be fun. Kids' bedrooms should be fun too. Here are three unusual and creative dressers spotted by our editors:
Training Dresser
The Training Dresser by Washington state designer Peter Bristol is made mostly of maple plywood and ...
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Bordbar: in-flight carts become cool home items
Spot Cool Stuff previously wrote about an airline that was selling it's in-flight meals in local grocery stores. But if that doesn't sufficiently bring the airplane cuisine experience to your home, consider getting an artsy airline food cart from Bordbar.
Bordbar trolleys are, at their core, like those meal service carts ...
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