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.”

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

The Energy Belt designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini is a solar powered monorail proposed as a sustainable transportation solution, connecting the Italian city of Bologna with the city’s international airport.

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

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.

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

“A building is important for people who live and work but it but it is far more important for people who pass it.”

In Medellín, Colombia an inspiring story has unfolded which illustrates how design can help initiate positive change.

In preparation for Tuesday night’s Good Ideas Salon in Tokyo that PSFK is putting on in collaboration with Nissan, I’ve been gathering images of ‘Pure Living’ in Japan.

6a Architects has created a multi-use space where library stacks are used to display K-Swiss products.

Beautiful Decay points us to Ester Stocker’s installation work which transforms space using minimal elements.

This weekend, Brett Snyder and Irene Cheng are kicking off The Museum Of The Phantom City: Other Futures, a mobile media project that explores a wide variety of forward thinking architectural and artistic designs for New York City that never came to fruition.

The world’s tallest wooden building is being constructed in Kirkines, Norway, and will serve as the town’s cultural center in addition to housing energy-efficient offices for the Barents Secretariat.

Flemish artist Jan Fabre has created the ‘Heaven of Delight’ using 1.6 million Buprestidae beetles. Fabre and his team of thirty people took 4 months to glue all of the beetle shells to the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels.
The jewel beetles were obtained from universities and connections Fabre had in the open market. They are a non-protected species that are abundant in certain countries like Thailand where the beetle is fried and eaten.
Jan Fabre on his creation:
As far as the ceiling is concerned, I first created a wide variety of forms and patterns by gluing beetles onto small [...]