Dreamy Treehouse Architecture

“Two art movements have recently gained a lot of attention in Japan: the architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and ROJO”, is stated on Designboom.

Terunobu Fujimori seems to be known as the world’s only ‘surreal architect’. Fujimori uses simple, natural materials, like wood. The photos of the treehouses he built attracted my attention, reminding me of childhood. Wouldn’t it be great to bring those type of buildings into the busy metropolis?

Japanese fashion company Uniqlo has made this online calendar about the moving city. The time lapse movies show the city as an organism and give a good insight in the relation between moving and static bits of the city. Uniqlo made the calender available for intergration in a blog, a MySpace or a Facebook account,…

Cycling becomes increasingly popular in big metropolitan centers around the globe. That is perhaps the reason why new services for bicyle riders start to become interesting business concepts. Bike Fixtation is a DIY bicycle repair station recently launched to serve stranded bicycle riders in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. The smart initiative offers self-service kiosks on an extended-hours basis for bicyclists.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. That’s what the guys of SPAARbOD must have thought. In these times of financial disorder, there seems to be place for new ideas for earning money with money. Your savings are worth a lot of money since the financial crisis forces banks and other financial institutions to solve their solvability problems. The interest though, which is supposed to be the price of capital, remains to be low.