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Meta MoCo | 10 Nov 07 | Comments (0) | Stumble
This week's MoCo picks, Tokyo Design Week edition, II.
+ Tokyo Design Week coverage at DESIGNWS.COM, "This year, for the first time the focal point of the weeks activities is Jingu Gaien, a unique and beautiful open space in the heart of Tokyo.". Part 2 is here.
+ PingMag's Best Of Tokyo Design Week 2007: Extensive TOP 20! "Why 20…? We don’t want to see it as a ranking - these are simply 21 ideas we found most lovely!"
+ TDW round-up at designboom and Studio 22's concrete rings.
+ Cuma and Cross by Takehiro Ando at Dezeen "consisted of interlocking felt components".
Elsewhere,
+ Spect Harpman Architects' 650 square foot Zero House, "The design proposes to have self-generating electricity created by the canopy roof; as well as a 2700 gallon rooftop water collection, and a waste composting system at the lowest level.". Via architechnophilia.
+ ModCell Zero Carbon Homes, "ModCell is a sustainable, prefabricated straw bale and hemp cladding panel". Via eye candy.
+ The Complexities of Keeping It Small and Simple at the NYTimes, architects Paul McKean and Amy Donohue build a modern, green home outside Portland, Oregon. Via Apartment Therapy. See more here.
+ NOTCOT visits CITIZEN:Citizen at Paper's 24 hour Department Store on La Brea, "a one day only pop-up mall".
+ Steven Holl's Riddled hingeless front cabinet for Horm at designboom.
+ Sow & Codfish cable control by Ett La Benn. Via DESIGNSPOTTER.
+ Alma, Orlando and Björn, a container, fan and lamp by Anita Meyer, are "three siblings [that] are parasitic helpers that ease the burden of everyday life and make us more comfortable.". Via DESIGNSPOTTER.
+ Dry Tech video at designguide.tv, "A partnership between Droog Design, the Delft university of technology and some of the brightest minds in design. The aim is to bring high-tech materials and creativity to a higher level.".
+ Saba Italia's modular Scoop bed and sofa, "two semi-circular sides of the bed separate to make playful yet practical half-moon shaped seating". Via Trendir.
+ The wrong Wong, yep it wasn't a store and it's not Tobi at UnBeige.
