Keiji Ashizawa has crafted an elegant modular home storage system.

This simple, flexible line by Moredesign for Italian furnishing specialist Myour creates considered furniture pieces that can standalone or interact with others to transform from table to seat to sofa and back again.

We’ve seen many examples of conceptual vertical farming, and of course high-rise living – but what about a combination of the two? Architects from Tzannes Associates in Sydney have dreamed up just such an idea with their Skyburbs concept design.

Architectural firm Visiondivision have designed a stylish and imaginative storage facility around a power plant in Gothenburg, Sweden. The storage area presented a unique design challenge because of the large industrial supplies that need to be quickly accessible by a crane truck at all times. Their solution was to create a modular wall that protects the equipment inside, improves the visual look of the facility and permits easy access.
The exterior facade is made out of perforated steel plates, which minimize wind loads, and permit interior views while maintaining a consistent, clean look. Visiondivision has also added a clever narrative illustration [...]

Zoybar is an open musical instrument development platform, implementing some very innovative ideas that are usually thrown around only in the realm of software development. The instrument’s components can be swapped in and out, and a standardized structure means newly-developed components can be easily integrated with existing designs. Explains the Zoybar site:
Think of the Zoybar platform as a hardware version that might be similar to the Firefox browser concept. Independent developers could create new add-ons and plugins (sound effects) that will become relevant to the whole Zoybar users and community. Almost any application can be easily attached to the Zoybar [...]

The “future dining table” designed by Petr Kubik is a multi-purpose kitchen appliance that combines the functions of cooking and eating in the form of the familiar dining room table.

The table has hidden compartments to store your food and appliances, and the surface OLED changes from opaque to transparent to reveal the refrigerated food underneath. Different foods are compartmentalized and drinks can be retrieved from the centre core. A mini-dish washer, toaster, micro-wave, coffee maker are stored underneath the inner circle. While making meals, you can browse for recipes or read the news off the tabletop that functions as a [...]

Curbly points us to an interesting dining room setup designed by Ilja Oelschlagel that seems to disappear into a wall. A table and benches fold out of a tiny wall unit and storage space is reveled behind a flat facade.
[Compact Kitchen via Curbly]

We like this set of modular couches designed by Philippe Nigro for Ligne Roset. The customizable nature of the design allows you to rearrange your seating set up depending on your mood and needs.
It’s a combination of the shades of pleasant colors, the ability to personalize it, and the organic, lounging aesthetic of the chairs that differentiate them from, say, standard assemble-yourself furniture choices.
[via Design Boom]