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We have received this iphone app called AntiMosquito Fumigator. The app claims to keep mosquitos away as long as you keep it running in the background. It emits a high-pitched sound that humans don’t hear but mosquitos do and not appreciate. ,…

"The city as a set" explores the architectural and social context of the Can Framis Museum and the district 22@ of Barcelona, where the building is located, from a multidisciplinary approach to photography. This is a compilation of projects…

We just discovered this deck chair called Curt. Interesting concept by Bernhard Burkard. , full_html

The Cité de l'Océan et du Surf, located in Biarritz, France will open to the public on June 26, 2011. The museum, a design by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Brazilian artist and architect Solange Fabião, aims to raise awareness of…

Steven Holl designed elements of this museum, dedicated to the Norwegian writer, as emblems of a human body and figures in Hamsun's work. , full_html

Next Thursday, on the 7th of July, Barcelona is host to one of the most interesting conferences at the Barcelona Design Festival which will explore the current state of European design. The European Wow Factor is the third edition of the ADCE…

We've talked in the past of this brilliant project, now in detail: the Torre Diagonal Zero Zero, new corporate headquarters of Telefonica in Catalonia, a project by study EMBA, led by the architect Enric Massip-Bosch., full_html

The OMA Vimeo Channel put on line, a few hours, this video on Rem Koolhaas's conference on 8 June, given at the Salon du Bâtiment Méditerranéen, in Sfax, in Tunisia: "The Smart Building and the Optimization of Infrastructure, Systems , Services and…

It's summer and everyone seems to want to do more sports, hills make some surrender quickly. A bike with pedals and electric may be a solution. One model could be further (by the technology applied and respect the environment) is the prototype of…

When you use the internet have you thought just how much energy you're using? This story may give you some idea of just how much energy the wired world sucks down. , full_html