Architects: Fiona Winzar Architects.
Location: South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia.
Photographs: Emma Cross.

Via Archdaily.

In the city of amsterdam, Stefan Sagmeister was exploring design for the urban landscape and looking at how it fulfills. From informal interventions to happenings which are sometimes illegal, experimentadesign 2008 proposes that the city’s public space becomes a place in which architects and designers develop the urban area into a playground which initiates social interaction amongst city dwellers.

Via Designboom.

Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has sent us in images of his new work ‘filio’ ring. Made from silver the ring is a one off piece that uses the same geometry of a cut gemstone.

Via Designboom.

“Spin: the art of record design” looks at record design from the past four decades. The show examines the relationship between the art and design or record packaging with the music itself. An eclectic array of work is included in the show, representing many different musical styles and time periods.

Via Designboom.

The building is scheduled for completion in 2010. The project is led by OMA partners Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with project architect Jason Long. The 23 East 22nd Street tower cantilevers eastwards to provide views of Madison Square Park from the upper floors.
Via Dezeen.

The central feature of the club is the dance floor designed by Studio Roosegaarde, with basic concept by TU Delft Industrieel Ontwerpen. Composed of modules made from recycled PVC and glass, the dance floor is a complex moveable surface that converts the kinetic energy from dancers into electricity, which is then used to power the floor lighting. Creating a direct relationship between the dancer and his or her actions, a light metre indicates the amount of energy generated and the LED lighting in the floor becomes more green the more you dance. ‘In this way, people become more aware of their actions and become active in the design.
Club Watt in Rotterdam. By Kossmann Dejong

Via L’effet Papillon et Design.nl.

Beijing-based architects MAD have designed a conceptual, star-shaped, mobile Chinatown.

The architects describe the project as “MAD’s response to the redundant and increasingly out-of-date nature of the contemporary Chinatown”.
Moving around the world, the mobile town would produce all it’s own energy and recycle all its own waste, requiring no resources from its host city.
The town would be home to 15,000 people and include health resorts, sports facilities, drinking-water lakes and a digital cemetery.
The project will be presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the exhibition ‘Uneternal City’ curated by Aaron Betsky, which opens this week.

Read more at Dezeen.