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honda fcev concept.

Nov 22, 2013

Another fuel cell car. The other is the [ hyundai ] Then again who has a hydrogen pump in the backyard?

[ official release ]
The sleekly styled Honda FCEV Concept, made its world debut today at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. The concept expresses a potential styling direction for Honda’s next-generation fuel-cell vehicle anticipated to launch in the U.S. and Japan in 2015, followed by Europe.

Honda’s next generation fuel cell-electric vehicle will feature the world’s first application of a fuel-cell powertrain packaged completely in the engine room of the vehicle, allowing for efficiencies in cabin space as well as flexibility in the potential application of FC technology to multiple vehicle types in the future.

Significant technological advancements to the fuel-cell stack have yielded more than a 60 percent increase in power density while reducing the size of the stack by 33 percent compared to the FCX Clarity. It is anticipated to deliver a driving range of more than 300 miles with quick refuelling of about three minutes at a pressure of 70 MPa.

Showcasing exciting and modern styling, the Honda FCEV Concept features sweeping character lines underscored by an ultra-aerodynamic body. The Honda FCEV Concept also delivers ample passenger space and seating for five passengers.

“The Honda FCEV Concept hints at Honda’s future direction for fuel-cell vehicles,” said Tetsuo Iwamura, president and CEO of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. “While this car is a concept, it points toward a very real future.

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mercedes-benz amg gran turismo concept.

Nov 21, 2013

Mercedes has produced whole new vehicle for the video game Gran Turismo 6 –but they also built it in the real world. The Gran Turismo concept is said to illustrate “sensuous purity” the emerging Mercedes design language, according to design chief Gordon Wagener. It was shown in gleaming steel at the 2013 Los Angeles auto show.

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Lady gaga's flying dress concept: Volantis.

Nov 11, 2013

Gaga lands at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Volantis, a flying dress at a press conference for her artRave party on Sunday 10 November 2013.

“Volantis is essentially a vehicle,” the 27-year-old entertainer told the crowd. “I wanted to make today about something even more important to me. And what that something is the youth of the world.”

Volantis was conceived by Studio XO in Gaga’s TechHaus. It has six booms in a hex formation and is powered by 50 volts of batteries. The dress also has a carbon fiber molded mimic of a fitted couture dress. It’s creative.

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3d printer that can build a 2,500-sq-ft home in 20 hours.

Nov 9, 2013

Architects and designers are very excited about the potential of 3D printing and expecting big things when the right people master it. Most everyone thinks of creating products and not bigger objects that would fall into the realm of architecture. A story making the media rounds right now is in fact ten years old. At the University of Southern California, Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, has been developing a process called [ Contour Crafting ] a robotic extruding system that could efficiently print habitats. Below is a video taken at a TED talk in Ojai, California in 2012.

tensile structures. zaha hadid.

Nov 1, 2013

audi design wall. pinakothek der moderne.

Oct 2, 2013

Audi uses a design museum, the Ur-Quattro, and aluminum to make a statement. Audi and Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich – are celebrating another highlight regarding the reopening of the Pinakothek der Moderne. From September Audi will be guesting in the Pinakothek der Moderne with a wall installation. The installation called the Audi design wall will form part of the Permanent Collection of Die Neue Sammlung for at least five years. The debut opened one day after premiering at the Frankfurt Auto Show. [ pinakothek ] [ audi ]

[ from official audi release ]
Die Neue Sammlung, the design museum located within the Pinakothek der Moderne, and Audi, a car manufacturer that is the embodiment of good design, are open to experiments. Following the successful exhibition “Design Icons” staged by Die Neue Sammlung at the Audi Forum Neckarsulm, from September Audi will be guesting in the Pinakothek der Moderne with a wall installation. The installation called the Audi design wall will form part of the Permanent Collection of Die Neue Sammlung for at least five years.

Aluminum is the epitome of lightness and stability. Audi has been closely associated with aluminum expertise in the automotive engineering field for many years. For the Audi installation, around 1,800 models of the legendary Ur-quattro form an “aluminum carpet”. Each of the models, weighing around 860 grams, were cut away from a seven-kilogram block of aluminum. The future of the Audi brand rises up from foundations formed of these aluminum Ur-quattros.

The sculpture evoking the Audi Sport quattro concept soars up vertically. The show car translates quattro technology and its tradition in motorsport into a futuristic formal idiom. A mirror suspended on the ceiling allows visitors to explore the installation from an unusual perspective. “The Audi design wall visualizes the bridge between the past and the future of our brand,” explained Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, AUDI AG Member of the Board of Management for Technical Development. “The common thread is quattro technology, which defines Audi more than any other.” The work was devised by the Audi Design team specifically for this room in the Pinakothek der Moderne. “We created the Audi design wall with the passion of an artist and exercised maximum precision in visualizing the core technology of quattro,” commented Hackenberg in describing its evolution. The idea for the exhibit itself came from an internal competition among Audi designers. The challenge was to come up with an object that communicates with the onlooker. The Audi design wall is also visible to passers-by outside the museum.

The model that inspired the carpet exhibit, the Ur-quattro, is in itself a legend. Since 1980, when the first Audi quattro was unveiled to the public at the Geneva Motor Show, permanent all-wheel drive has emerged as a core automotive technology. quattro stands for safety, power and sportiness – thus perfectly symbolizing the Audi brand. No innovation has had a greater formative impact on the carmaker than quattro.

After the reopening of the Pinakothek der Moderne on September 14, 2013 the first Kunstareal Festival will take place in the grounds of the Pinakothek museums on September 15, 2013, taking “Encounters. Kunstareal Munich” as its motto. As one of the festival’s supporters, Audi will be presenting design in a way that is specifically tailored to children. Children will be able to discover design on a paper chase taking them through the rooms of Die Neue Sammlung, and in a design workshop hosted by Audi. At the workshop, the children will have the chance to create small models, in the process gaining an insight into the work of Audi’s designers and model makers.

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renault’s initiale concept car.

Sep 23, 2013

Renault’s Initiale concept car at the Frankfurt motor show is romantic in yet another new way about the city. Its roof is etched with a map of the City of Lights. By Laurens van den Acker. [ details ]

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nova shoe. zaha hadid for united nude.

Jul 8, 2013

nova | zaha hadid | 2013 | image > united nude

Architecture for the woman’s foot: Right on the ‘heels’ of the last months ‘Prima‘ installation for Swarovski at Vitra Fire Station, Zaha Hadid launches the NOVA shoe. The design extends the conversation of Hadid’s remarkable journey as an articulator of complexity and daring. No doubt these shoes will appear on the scene though not designed to match the 10-year popularity of iconic Möbius*. Price: $2,000 / $200* usd.

The limited edition haute couture shoe NOVA is a collaboration of Hadid and Rem D Koolhaas of United Nude. A design statement that combines innovative material, ergonomics and Hadid’s architectural language to convey an inherent sense of movement.

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[ united nude ] is a design company specializing in high heels. Since the launch of its first shoe named Möbius, the company has opened studios in London and Guangzhou.

[ official release ]
Zaha hadid and Rem d Koolhaas of United nude are delighted to announce the new limited edition haute couture shoe designed by Zaha hadid will be launched at the iconic store L’eclaireur, 40 rue de Sévigné, Paris, on July 2nd 2013.

Zaha hadid and United nude’s Creative director Rem d Koolhaas have been talking about shoes since they first met years ago. Hadid, an architect with a passion for shoes, and Rem D, the original shoe architect, agreed to collaborate on the design of a shoe with no pre-conceptions and ignore all the rules to create an entirely new form of shoe.

The result is quintessentially hadid. the revolutionary design of the nOVa shoe combines innovative materialization and ergonomic considerations with the dynamism of hadid’s unmistakable architectural language to convey an inherent sense of movement; revealing the experimentation and invention of Hadid’s process through every stage of design and construction.

“United Nude’s collections are provocative yet sensual. Rem D Koolhaas’ unrelenting experimentation at the cutting edge of fashion never fails to capture our imagination.” explains Hadid. “I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. Our collaboration with United Nude reinterprets the classic shoe typology; pushing the boundaries of what is possible without compromising integrity.”

The NOVA design incorporates intricate striations juxtaposed with dramatic realignments, establishing a direct formal relationship with the shoe’s primary structure and expressing the dynamic forces applied by every step of the wearer.

[ zaha hadid architects ] [ united nude ]

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Scorpion. A concept boat by scott henderson.

Jun 26, 2013

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Scorpion: A 32’ Launch Vessel designed by Scott Henderson.

The 32’ launch concept Scorpion was inspired by Scott’s long-time appreciation of the Chris-Craft brand, and designed as an unsolicited speculative concept pitch to Chris-Craft. Chris-Craft’s mahogany runabouts from the 1940s, 50s and 60s, with their deep-V hulls that twist dramatically from an extreme negative slope at the bow, reversing along the way toward the “barrel-back” at the stern, are iconic, timeless and sought-after pieces of design to this day. Scorpion’s design challenge would ask the question: What should a ‘next generation’ launch vessel express to honor the tradition of those fantastic wooden power boats by instead using a contemporary fiber glass construction.

Scorpion’s top surface and wind screen frame are one continuous surface—a uni-body. The glass from the wind screen transitions seamlessly into a long side window on both sides of the forward deck- reminiscent of a scorpion’s claw- communicating speed and power while maintaining the expression of luxury and style.

The center window over the forward deck has a boarder that continues through the windshield, on down to the floor, and up and over the aft deck and through the swim deck at the stern. This “racing stripe” ties SCORPION’s composition together from front to back. The large center window and the two integrated side windows on the bow (the Scorpion’s ‘claw’) provide 180 degrees of naturally bright and airy illumination to the V-Berth quarters below. By allowing light and visual line of sight to the outside world, the inhabitants of the forward cabin space are connected to their surroundings rather than cut off and shielded from the water while inside.

The unique integration of the top hull with the wind shield as one thought — one singular statement — sets Scorpion apart. Traditionally, no matter how well designed a launch or tender vessel’s windshield component is, they typically read as “stuck-on”, or as necessary afterthoughts rather than being visually linked to the vessel’s holistic point of view. By contrast, in automotive design, forms that are required for function are holistically integrated and considered with the vehicle’s overall statement. Scorpion’s treatment of this detail propels boat design into the future and makes Scorpion instantly memorable and iconic.

“The 32’ Scorpion Concept is designed to feature a Twin Mercury 8.2 MAG HO (430hp) engine, with a top speed of 60 miles per hour (53.0 knots @5000 RPM), a cruising speed of 35 mph / 30 knots (@3000 rpm), and a cruising range of 280 miles”.

[ scott henderson ] is an American product designer working in New York City. Known for his innovative consumer products in the areas of Houseware’s, Electronics, Furniture and his line of Museum Store gift objects called MINT, the 32’ Launch vessel Scorpion follows his earlier Mega Yacht concepts- Priona, Quillon and Manta, designed in 2012.

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22 story hotel concept pays homage to a silkmoth.

Jun 22, 2013

Paterson New Jersey a city founded by Alexander Hamilton as America’s first industrial park is also known as the silk city. Silk of course is made from the cocoons of certain moths. So the architect– still anonymous–of a proposed new 22 story hotel chose the cocoon as inspiration.

The hotel plan was unveiled recently by Paterson Mayor Jeffery Jones who describes the $65 million hotel as a tribute to Paterson’s silk industry roots. He says it “doesn’t require any city investment whatsoever.” [ some details ]

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