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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.

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• 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.

• Materialicious’s Material and Product Roundup.
• Try something new and Advertise on a Zebra Crossing.
• AA Hijmans van den Bergh Medical Faculty by Erick van Egeraat.
• Mixing up ancient and modern in the Renovation of an Old Rural House.
• Ben Rousseau created The Suite for the Ice Hotel.

• Another interesting and inspiring Material and Product Roundup.
• Philippe Starck talks about design at TED.
• Domestic launched a collection of mirrors designed by various designers.
• Download some Free AutoCad Human Figures.
• Illustrations of Iakov Chernikov’s 101 Architecgtural Fantasies.
• Architecture Photos by Plataforma Architectura.

• Wallpaper* launches the graduate directory with this year’s 110 Best Young Designers of photography, illustration, architecture, product design, fashion, textiles, jewellery, graphic design and art.
• Another interesting and inspiring Material and Product Roundup.
• Walls made up of alternate bands of timber and glass at The Dairy House.
• Some interior photos of the New Museum by SANAA opened in New York.