This house in Tokyo was designed to more seamlessly integrate the natural environment with indoor space. The architects at Suppose Design Office call it “half-outdoor” space. It occurs by placing areas normally outdoors on the inside, creating a kind of liminal threshold. The transitional spaces are demarcated by the use of different materials.

[via ArchDaily]
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We’ve previously written about projections on buildings, and the technology and application of it seems to be proliferating. This time, NuFormer Digital Media from the Netherlands brings us a video demo of custom made 3D projections made to fit each building.

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.
[ via Scene 360 ]
Custom Interactive Projections On Buildings

Lights On is a synchronized light and sound installation on the exterior of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. There are 1085 LED controlled windows to coordinate with the sound playing from speakers around the building.

[today and tomorrow via swissmiss]

The Lumos Outdoor Fireplace is another well-designed piece of multi-purpose gear. In its starting form, it’s a sleek fireplace to keep you warm while enjoying the great outdoors. Slide down the chimney, flip down the top half, and it becomes a charcoal grill, with a side stand to hold food and cooking tools. Not the most revolutionary thing in the world, but a great example of a tool that can be put to use year-round.
[via Gizmodo]

While walking down Bedford Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we happened across this humorous mural poking a bit of fun at the commercialization of neighborhood. The piece comes from Colossal Media, an outdoor advertising company specializing in hand painted murals. Colossal is also responsible for those ‘authentic’ looking Dewars ads around the city, but the above mural appears to be nothing more that an ad for themselves – which is interesting in and of itself.
This is an outdoor media company who relies on their ’street creds’ and prides themselves on being able to connect savvy consumers with brands via [...]

Waiting for the bus no longer has to be an interminable process of staring slack jawed towards the horizon hoping for its arrival, in many parts of the UK at least.  As part of Cadbury’s gooey new advertising campaign – created by Saatchi & Saatchi – for their popular Creme Eggs, they have launched a touchscreen bus shelter game. The game is modeled after the classic carnival game that challenges contestants to hit as many “fill in the blank rodents” as possible as they unknowingly emerge from their burrows in set amount of time, only in this case it’s Cadbury Creme [...]

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