1. fun can be this easy and beautiful!

    play equipment.  Kyoto, Japan

     

  2. Toronto brand of incubator opens in NYC, centre for social innovation, May 2013.

     

  3. ‘Free’ TIMEANDDESIRE collective. Toronto, 2012

     

  4. Artist Karen Abel remodels a public planter using the existing materials.  Toronto, Canada.

     

  5. Inspiration for detroit, usa

    (Source: aestheticdetroit)

     

  6.  Architect Michael Jantzen, LEGO clad bridge.   Making walking stairs more fun.  Design not yet built.

     

  7. Material repurposing.  Thailand.

     

  8. Inspired adaptive reuse.

    MDW Architecture - Savonnerie Heymans, conversion of a former soap factory to social housing, Brussels 2011. Via, photos (C) Filip Dujardin.

    (Source: subtilitas, via komalantz)

     

  9. Speaking to the new design for teaching kids to learn, to learn, in Ordrup School, Denmark. 

    Designed by Rosan Bosch & Rune Fjord Jensen

     

  10. Renderings.  The Botswana Innovation Hub is under development at a strategic location in Gaborone near the (SSK) International Airport and is to be a national center of excellence for innovation in key priority areas - being ICT, Mining Technology, Bio-Technology, and Energy/Environment.

    Designed by SHoP architects, www.shoparc.com, claims sustainability without any details… please send me a link if you find out more information on the building.  thanks!

    (Source: 1memar.blog.ir)

     

  11. bike fix station,  Vancouver, Canada

     

  12. riverao:

    (by James Nord)

    Vines can do a building good. Summer shade reduces cool requirements and winter bare vines let the sun through to supplement heaters.

     

  13. Courtyard of The National Galleria of Art in DC, USA.

    Creating all season ‘outdoor space’.

    (Source: marvelingphotography)

     

  14. In the wake of the quake that levelled much of Christchurch, New Zealand, this pop up mall made of shipping containers has become a new community retail centre.  Dreamed as a temporary fix, its popularity is ensuring it a more permanent place in rebuilt Christchurch.

     

  15. Reuse of wooden pallets into terraced seating.  comfortably genius.