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venice’s historic caffè florian — the oldest one in italy and in the world — just celebrated its 300th birthday in a bitter way.
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the design draws influence from the sculptures of artist luo xu, and integrates a series of art deco elements to form its own unique identity.
a coconut leaf roof covers the entire ceiling.
the architects planted trees in the corner of both houses, allowing them to protrude outside the envelopes of the two dwellings.
not sure why you consider them silly, they require dramatically less amount of construction materials and transport fuel. They tend to be mobile, light weight, and custom printed. Those are some pretty interesting features.
Brilliant!! not silly. Pop-up stores very cool I get it 🙂 will you be creating pop-up living with air and heating capability?
Some of these designs (the first inflatable, for example) would provide excellent prototypes for literal “pop-up” stores. Permits could be issued to help develop various areas of cities, suburbs and town centers. Cities could even provide rental opportunities for these “pop-ups” in order to facilitate local economies, increasing small business, buying local, etc.
Why do people do these obviously silly things? It isn’t as though there aren’t people creating serious and practical systems for ‘nomadic living’.
shades of Ant Farm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_Farm_(group)