This week's MoCo picks.

+ ARCHIKUBIK's 2,260 sq. ft. Colin's House @ noticias arquitectura.

+ Cristian Marino C.'s Casa Marino in Santiago @ Plataforma Arquitectura.

+ "I drew my floor." says Olle, and added a green grass countertop to round out the outside-in kitchen. Via Hemfeber.

+ Ryker/Nave: RN Residence in Montana @ TreeHugger, "one of our big goals is to make beautiful buildings and help people understand that green materials don't predetermine a certain style" (Nave adds) "we're not talking about earthships.". More here.

+ The American Institute of Architects (AIA) launches How Design Works For You, a website with tools that help clients (us) answer questions like; Does your project really require an architect? At what point should you involve a design team? What is it like to work with an AIA architect, and how do you get the most out of the experience? Watch how an experienced AIA architect helps her client define what she wants in a new house in A Sustainable House. Via Inhabitat.

+ KO Basalt garden by Krill @ designws.com, "They refused to treat their backyard as a tiny piece of nature, but rather as the ideal opportunity to enjoy sun and rain in their own secluded world.".

+ Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects' Dunedin Street extension, "A small extension to a city edge house this project creates a language of new parts by manipulating and exaggerating existing qualities of the dwelling to form an sympathetic dialogue between old and new whilst exploiting every part of the site.". Via architechnophilia.

+ Introducing Space with Elica Deep Silence (EDS³), which "now means that at low speeds you’ll barely hear the hood at all!". Via designrepublic.

+ SOZ Re:mo "carpenter blocks" for building your own furniture. Via The Cool Hunter.

+ Champagne's vertical grain EST Engineered Solid Timber furniture. Via DESIGNSPOTTER.

+ Space Invaders: New Objects for Small Spaces @ Metropolis. Via TreeHugger.

+ Bellato's Action Wardrobe, "Large sliding doors reveal tons of storage for the bedroom, living room, kitchen, home office". Via Apartment Therapy.

+ CA Boom design show coverage at Land+Living, Curbed, NOTCOT, and Inhabitat.

+ Freedom of Creation to launch four new rapid-prototyped products in Milan, including the Cambrian lamp above, @ Dezeen.

+ Burovormkrijgers’ Transfurniture "an amazing table that transforms into a chair when someone sits on it.". Via Sensory Impact.

+ Oscar Narud's Butler Furniture, "Furniture exploring our day-to-day rituals around the home.". Via Yanko Design.

+ Daniel To's magnetic hangers, "These hangers replace the hook with a magnet, accompanied by a suspended piece of metal to allow full freedom of arrangment and display.". Via aptbroadcast via Reluct.

+ Xavier Lust's "Crédence" credenza for dePadova. Via obdesigner.

+ Kose "brings classic lines and classic materials together into beautiful vases" @ style-files.

+ Method to launch a new bodycare line called Bloq this month, "available in four formats: body wash, lotion, shave cream, and bar soap" @ Happy Mundane.

+ Looking forward to seeing the Smallest, Coolest Kitchen.

For magazine lurvrs...

+ Andy Warhol's Interview, arguably the modern interview original, gets a new look online. Via magCulture.com/blog. Check out the audio interviews, the first one is Quentin Tarantino interviewing Rose McGowan.

+ A lone dissenting voice rips Monocle the mag, but "the website is brilliant" (for non-UK readers, a Thomson directory is a phone book).

This week at Art MoCo we took a look at a few LA-based artists and started with Lola whose canvases sport oddly endearing characters who could fit right into a weirdly parallel Dr. Seuss universe.

A lot of Nathan Spoor’s work is all blues, greens and purples, deeply mysterious and extremely compelling, especially his recurring tangles.

Don’t be fooled by the bright colours and candy hearts – Jason Maloney’s work is far from sugar sweet. Ken and Barbie found that out the hard way.

Tim McCormick’s paintings are a little less harsh, but the softened edge is there nonetheless. McCormick fills his pieces with images and text and it is always intriguing to peer into them in the hopes of putting it all together.

Art MoCo has a soft spot for vintage paintings of little value, so when we found that Anthony Ausgang embellishes found art with his high-energy cartoon characters driving fast cars, well, it seemed like the perfect Friday way to ride. SM

Todays' MoCo picks.

+ Daniel Carratalá's Casa Ramos "is located in austere and dry territory", but with a lap pool sunk into the first floor and views into the pool from the bathroom below, it's both wet and dry @ Arkinetia.

+ Ross Lovegrove two-meter high Muon speakers for KEF @ Dezeen, "made from super-formed aluminium.".

non·object book author and industrial designer Branko Lukic has sent us a new bottle design for a new vodka called Vertikal. I haven't tried it, but I like the bottle design, the "World's First Neckless Bottle", especially the wide mouth screw top, and the fact that it was intentionally designed so that "after its initial life as a product, the bottle was designed to be re-used as an elegant vase" or in my case, an elegant water bottle (if I can get my hands on one).

+ nonobject.com/Vertikal

Timpins designer Nate Archer has chosen his favorite answer to the question Tell us what your favorite snack food is, and, if well-designed, would you wear it with pride?

Says Nate,

i like jw's "Right now, though, I'm all about the Girl Scout Cookies, so an assortment of GS cookie pins would be fantastic." I'm assuming here he means the vanilla and chocolate ones before the redesign. so that is my pick.

Starting tomorrow at 6pm, Very Brooklyn is the next show at Commissaires design gallery in Montreal. Several new objects by Brooklyn-based designers will be on display including David Weeks’ Votives candleholders for Kikkerland (above), as well as his Oval Boi Chandelier #418 and Hivemindesign’s Wooden Stools, with sections that can be recombined, see them after the jump. Also at the show, works by Rob Teeters, Historically Inaccurate, Nicholas Furrow, Matt Gagnon, Carlos Salgado (from Scrapile) and new jewellery pieces by Alissia MT.