Bits ‘n Pieces is a traveling exhibition of work by international designers, architects, computer scientists, and material and technology researchers. It will showcase projects still in their development stage, as well as furniture, architecture, jewelry, graphic design and products that anticipate the next phase of the digital revolution, focusing on how society is imbued with, shaped by and shapes technology.

Czech firm A1 Architects recently explored the small living paradigm at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague last month, creating a whimsical exhibition called “The Small House.”

Solar Roadways is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that can be driven on, replacing all current asphalt roads, including driveways and parking lots. The panels would collect and store solar energy to be used for our homes and businesses.

Casa Huerta (Orchard House) is a small scale greenhouse / vertical farming system proposed to better life in the poor areas of the world’s cities.

Paul Coudamy is a French architect whose work is a contemporary mash up of inventiveness supplied by today’s technologies and materials.

Social networking site Architizer is being promoted as a “Facebook for Architects,” enabling architects, architecture curators, clients, critics and fans to interact.

Hands down this is one of the most interesting examples creative architecture and community spaces we’ve seen all year. But the finished project almost falls in the shadow of the story about how this library came about.

Alex Creamer, a student at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, has designed a package for NYC Spaghetti that recreates the Chrysler Building in hard pasta form.

There’s a long list of new large scale buildings in Manhattan that have skewed the focus of architecture critiques and design reviews of the city towards grand projects. But New York Magazine recently uncovered several small city projects tucked away in the outerboroughs that are examples of good architectural solutions meeting challenging community and city service building projects.

Sculptor Christopher Fennell created a bus shelter in Atlanta from three decommissioned school busses. Exterior slices of a ‘62,’72, and ‘77 buses were joined together and the seating is from an old city bus. Interesting mix of creative reuse of materials and their context.

Andy Woodruff at Cartogrammar has created a series of maps that use Flickr as a paintbrush.

The Living Wall Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is aimed at creating electronically enhanced wallpaper that will be able to turn on and control devices.

The Hotel Everland is a portable, bright green, rectangular one-room hotel that has been stationed in various locations in Switzerland, Germany, and France.

A cleverly painted sign greets visitors on the elevator up to the Nissan HQ outside Tokyo.

The Shapeways blog points us to a unique new product they’ve produced for designer Alexander Pelikan. As part of a project with Dutch research institute TNO, Pelikan has made a set of 3D printed door handles.
[via Shapeways]