Designer Garth Britzman used 1,500 old plastic bottles to create a colorful parking canopy in Lincoln, Nebraska. Named Pop Culture, this beautiful installation “sought to stimulate creative alternatives for recycling and reusing materials.”

The artist received financial support from Fulbright Canada and the University College of Architecture, and together with University of Nebraska students spent a total of 200 hours on the project. Check for more information and pictures here.

Une Bobine (French for ‘A Coil’) is a patent pending flexible cable which allows you to charge and sync your iPhone while keeping it upright the whole time. From Huh Magazine.

Following from Marc Jacobs producing an Art by Art Jacobs t-shirt featuring the store Kidult vandalised in NYC (a source close to Kidult says it was definitely not a collaboration), FRY has decided to produce a t-shirt of the t-shirt to sell for a fraction of the price tag. The official Art by Art Jacobs t-shirt is on sale for $689, while you can pick up this one for $35. Funny? Boring? Shall we stop giving Kidult the press? More about this story on Huh magazine.

What can I say $689 is a lot for a t-shirt.

Photographer Philip Karlberg has just created a unique shoot for Plaza Magazine, sculpting famous faces by simply using clever lighting and carefully arranged wooden pins. Speaking about the project, Karlberg said:

“A couple of months ago I came up with an idea I have had in mind for years. I just did not know what I could use it for. But then I did a test with sunglasses, and it really turned out great. So I sent an image with the test to Plaza Magazine, and a week later I started shooting. It was a real challenge to ‘sculpt’ the faces of some classic wearers of sunglasses. It took me 6 days to shoot the 6 faces, and around 1200 sticks were used.”

Bubblegum hues, bulging balloons and contrasting textures comprise the new Melissa shoe shop in Melbourne, Australia.

‘The need was to create another world, a sensory delight,’ say designers Juliet Moore and Ben Edwards who were commissioned to realize the Brazilian shoe label’s first shop on Aussie soil.
They filled the space with 300 PTFE plastic spheres that resemble suspended balloons. Threaded onto cables mounted around the perimeter, the spheres hang in clusters throughout the shop. Called ‘bubbles,’ they can be used to hang and display shoes in various manners with the help of bespoke suction caps. More information available on Frameweb.

British artist James Hopkins created these wonderful skull sculptures out of bookshelves and household items.

Loop is the new Idiha design producr designed by Diego Granese. Idiha turns water into an excenting multi-sensory experience. Loop is a product to featuren indoor and outdoor spaces, garden, swimming pool or spa.

The Piano House is a unique design that looks like a giant transparent violin sitting next to an enormous piano. The building was made by the local government in Huainan, China to increase tourism to the newly developed area. It also serves as a place where local college music students can practice. The two buildings are connected by a staircase inside the violin.

Would you like to swim in a pool like that? I must be honest it’s a little scary for me. The new Holiday Inn Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao features a one of a kind swimming pool,located on the 24th floor of the hotel, the 30 meters long swimming pool is in suspension over the edge.

Hotels guests can experience swimming over the air, twenty four floors above the ground with nothing but a glass bottom underneath…! (via)

Located in Fukuoka, Japan, it stands harmonically with the rest of the architectural forms surrounding it. Considering that this has been the first time that Starbucks outsourced its design project, it is indeed successful and very attractive and at the same time share common attachment with its environmental setting. In addition, the restaurant design is efficient since the materials utilized were recyclable – meaning you can disassemble and reassemble it anywhere and anytime you want.More on ChicTip.