Bordbar Recycled Airplane Trolleys
A great, albeit pricey, idea for reusing retired airplane trolleys.
via Inhabitat — Furniture

A hotel in a box
"There are hotels built on stilts in the ocean, hotels fashioned out of former royal palaces, even hotels set among jungle treetops. So why not craft a hotel that can be plugged into an existing space in any city in the world? That was the thinking behind Qbic Hotels, a low-cost, high-design concept made up of prefabricated rooms that literally come out of a box."
via MSNBC — Misc

Interview: Ed Templeton
"An icon of street culture, Ed Templeton is both a skateboarding legend and a prolific artist."
via Artkrush — Art

Vision and Clarity on US roads
The redesign of America's road signs began with the creation of the typeface Clearview, the brainchild of Don Meeker, an environmental graphic designer, and James Montalbano, a type designer. [slideshow]
via NY Times — Graphics

50 Manifestos
O.D. on designer/archi-babble from a cast of interesting characters including Rem, Bruce Mau, Thom Mayne, the Bouroullec brothers, Zaha... even fellow blogger Geoff Manaugh... the list goes on and on.
via Icon — Designers

Chinese eco-city heralds revolution in urban living
"A new urban concept for an entirely sustainable city that would minimally impact the surrounding environment."
via CNN — Urban

British pub endangered
It seems that the British institution is under pressure from (among other things) redevelopment. I'm going to go cry in my beer now.
via BBC — Urban

Detroit: Garden City?
Ah Detroit... lots of room for urban community gardens and mother nature to reclaim a foothold. (See also L+L 2/20/2006 Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland.)
via The Dirt — Landscape

Frozen music
A musical score has been discovered embedded in the carvings of Scotland's Rosslyn Chapel. Perhaps it is the opus of Simple Minds? Or perhaps Franz Ferdinand? Personally, I'm hoping for Big Country.
via Bldgblog — Music

Link Mugs
Clever way to carry six cups of coffee by linking/plugging them together. Makes me wish I had six mouths. Just imagine the caffeine buzz :)
via Gizmodo — Accessories

Woz tackles Energy-Efficient Housing
Steve Wozniak (of Apple fame) has set his sights on energy-efficient housing. It's all about "simple design".
via Slashdot — Architecture

The Canary Project
A collection of photographs shot in sixteen diverse landscapes around the word as a means to highlight evidence of global climate change.
via Inhabitat — Art

Fall Colors
DWR is showing off the new colors of their Eames Soft Pad Management Chair.
via DWR Design Notes — Furniture

The Octopuss is Sober
One of the wittiest calendar designs I've seen to date. What's your favorite month?
via swissmiss — Accessories

Bamboo makes its sink debut
Just when you thought they couldn't make anything else from bamboo, Stone Forest puts out a bamboo sink. Just remember to have the help regularly seal and wax it.
via LA Times — Kitchen

Bicycle Architecture Tour of Venice
David Hertz is leading cyclists around some of Venice's greatest architectural s.f. hits. Rolling, rolling, rolling...
via QuiksilverEdition — Events

MuNiMulA Wine Tray
For the "cool, but why?" category... this aluminum tray (which I like for its high weight to strength ratio) holds four glasses and a bottle of vino. From our friends at MuNiMulA (seen L+L 2/21/2006).
via uncrate — Accessories

Modernism gets brutalist treatment
Yeah, yeah, yeah... Modern architecture is threatened... feels like I've Clipped a million of these articles, and yet I Clip again. Read it, will ya?
via Financial Times — Architecture

MFO Park
A fascinating structured urban Zurich, Switzerland designed by Burckhardt + Partner AG and Raderschall Landschaftsarchitekten AG.
via Archidose — Landscape

Rice Paddies As Art
Which gives me a kick ass idea... a Rice Paddy Elvis, anyone? No? Just me then?
via Treehugger — Art

Obsessive energetic visions of city life
Chris Dent is a U.K. based illustrator Chris whose work explores his fascination and intrigue in all forms of buildings, cities and street culture.
via Cool Hunting — Art

Angkor was a city ahead of its time
"The ancient Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia was the largest preindustrial metropolis in the world, with a population near 1 million and an urban sprawl that stretched over an area similar to modern-day Los Angeles."
via LA Times — Urban

Queens Botanical Garden
Archidose takes a sneak peak at the new Visitor's Center for the Queens Botanical Garden which has been designed with sights on a LEED platinum rating. (see also L+L 9/16/2004).
via Archidose — Architecture

15 Green Colleges and Universities
Save the world while you get edumacated. My school didn't make the list... which is bogus man... we were the biggest bunch of treehugging hippies ever.
via Grist — Green

Frank Lloyd Wright the player
The juicy story of Wright's infamous affair with a client's wife.
via NPR — Architecture

Loan Nguyen
Switzerland based photographer.
via swissmiss — Art

Video: City Slickers
A city is the sum of its parts... Monocle complies list of the top 25 urban elements that make a city.
via Monocle — Urban

Interview: Will Alsop
Will Alsop talks about his methodology for painting and urban planning, and how he thinks architecture is "dead easy."
via Metropolis — Designers

Crowd Power
A couple MIT students have developed a concept to harness the mechanical movement of hundreds or thousands of assembled people to produce electrical power. Now if only they could harness the stench of that stanky dude who you always manage to be crammed next to. Seriously.
via MSNBC — Green

Furniture Causes FedEx Fits
Looks like FedEx has their panties in a wad over some guy making furniture out of their boxes. Waaah.
via Wired — Furniture