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Much like the United States, Holland has strict rules regulating child labor and the legal working age, which is usually set at 14. Children younger than that can work for three hours a week or less, a stipulation that hasn’t stopped Dutch designer Lucas Maassen from opening Lucas Maassen & Sons, a furniture “factory” run primarily by his three young sons, who design, build and paint the pieces for a fee of one euro per piece (as stipulated by a contract the trio entered into with their father).
Read more about Lucas Maassen & Sons and check out a video of how their furniture is made HERE.
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Three Cubes Colliding
“Three Cubes Colliding” is an immense cubic kite made of carbon fiber rods and aerospace fabric and held together with 1,700 3D-printed connectors. The experimental kite, designed by Sash Reading and Ivan Morrison, openly defies preconceived notions of the physics of flight: its cubic shape stands opposite the streamlined bodies of modern aircrafts, like a block of marble yet to be carved into a smooth sculpture. Its visibly dense make-up also counters notions of the inflated object, which hinges on a gas-filled hollow interior to levitate.
(Source: architizer.com)
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(via architectureblog)
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The Indicator: 101 Things I Didn’t Learn in Architecture School
1] Even if your boss is your friend he may have to axe you to save his business.
2] Read the book, On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt. Carry it with you. It’s pocket-sized.
3] Do not drink at work and especially do not get toasted around your colleagues under any circumstances.
4] No matter how highly you may think of yourself you may still be a minion in the eyes of others who hold more power than you.
5] Once you leave architecture school not everybody cares about architecture or wants to talk about it.
6] All eating habits and diets acquired during school should be jettisoned.
7] The hygiene habits you kept in architecture school are inappropriate for real life; bathe regularly and change your underwear.
8] The rush and exhilaration you experience in studio may be inversely proportional to how much you will enjoy working for a firm.
9] It’s architecture, not medicine. You can take a break and no one will die.
10] Significant others are more important than architecture; they are the ones who will pull you through in the end. See 49.
(Source: archdaily.com)
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MVRDV’s Cloud Will Be Built As Is
Despite the outrage provoked by MVRDV’s ‘The Cloud,’ which saw the world-renowned architectural firm lambasted with complaints and calls for design revisions, the South Korean developer financing the project will not make any changes to the scheme. According to Australia’s News.com, a spokesman for the Yongsan Development Corporation today stated that ”allegations that it [The Cloud] was inspired by the 9/11 attacks are groundless,” adding that the project will continue unchanged onto construction phases, which are set to begin in January 2013 as scheduled
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Pantone Christmas ornaments made by Studio Badini Createam.
ed: Now THIS is a brilliant product.
![MVRDV’s Cloud Will Be Built As Is
Despite the outrage provoked by MVRDV’s ‘The Cloud,’ which saw the world-renowned architectural firm lambasted with complaints and calls for design revisions, the South Korean developer financing the project will not make any changes to the scheme. According to Australia’s News.com, a spokesman for the Yongsan Development Corporation today stated that ”allegations that it [The Cloud] was inspired by the 9/11 attacks are groundless,” adding that the project will continue unchanged onto construction phases, which are set to begin in January 2013 as scheduled](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/r3darch/14509828534/1/tumblr_lwib1zbr2w1qaxlow)
