Coolboom. Architecture and Interior Design News

• The Kaufmann House Goes up for Bids.
• Pontón Habitables is a fishery floating house with a surprising interior.
• Beautiful exterior shell with an Organic Pattern.
• Really useful l/o Desk Organizer made of walnut wood and felt.
• All you want to know about Arch.Maaik.

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• The Bishan Community Library by LOOK Architects.
• Some Stange and Amusing Door Designs by Nicolai Wallner.
• OR is The Boldest Installation at the Milan International Furniture Fair.
• The Sunset Cabin by Taylor Smyth Architects.
• Richard Rogers in Conversation with Deyan Sudijc at the Design Museum.
• Claesson Koivisto Rune designed A Modern Swedish Barn House.
• The exhibition of Arne Quinze’s work includes An Impressive Installation on the facade of La Galerie de Pierre Bergé & Associés.

Chair Exam by Blue Art Studio

• A new Material and Product Roundup by materialicious.
• NE Apartments is a block of eight apartments for motorcycles enthusiasts in Tokyo.
• A really interesting Ted Talks with architect Norman Foster.

Meditative Walk

• The Nomad Yurt that you can pop up in a half hour, by EcoShack.
• Yeshop Papercut is part retail space and part sculpture.
• SHU is a great stool and a great tool.

• The Slow Chair & Ottoman is another great design of the Bouroullec brothers for Vitra.
• Japanese designer Nendo created an incredible Office Space Divided by Walls with Cut-Outs.
• The Hotel & Igloo Village Kakslauttanen offers you the chance to stay in a glass igloo.
• A beautiful Wedding Chapel designed by Bunker Arquitectura.
• Architects DSDHA have created two Cafe Pavilions at Pottersfield Park in London.

Instant Architect

• Cylindrical booths seats at the Blue Frog Lounge by Serie Architects.
• Great Floorplan Plates at Fishs Eddy.
• And the “Interior Innovation Award Cologne 2008″ goes to… Stingray Rocking Chair.

• Shay Alkalay has invented Cut Attachez, a system that allows you to attach a drawer to an existing piece of furniture.
• The Watercube, aka National Swimming Center, in Beijing recently made its official opening.
• Florian Kräutli has como up with a new idea for curtains: a Magnetic Curtain.
• And some sad news… UN Studio’s VilLa NM Destroyed in Fire.

• The world famous Egg chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 and manufactured by Fritz Hansen celebrates its 50th Anniversary with 999 limited edition collection in chocolate brown suede on the back and dark chocolate brown leather on the front.
• Materialicious’s Material and Product Roundup.
• Tadao Ando uses Platinium-Glazed Ceramic Tiles.
• Steelcase WorkLife by PearsonLloyd.
• A Vertical Wardrobe that catches your clothes.
• The Twinline Tub Shower is a combination bathtub and shower that doesn’t skimp on style.

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• Learn more about The Technique of Burned Wood.
• Lighting Objects made by US architect and designer Johanna Grawunder.
• Dutch architects MWRDV show us An Animation of Gyre, the recently opened retail center in Tokyo.
• Materialicious’s Material and Product Roundup.
• The New Building for The New York Times.

Architect Humor

• Materialicious’s Material and Product Roundup.
• Oktokki Space Center by Mass Studies.
• Amazing Video of Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church.
• Pluviae, the shower head at the end of the shower curtain rail.
• Gravesend Public Toilets by Plastik Architects.