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• Guardian photo gallery of the work of free-form architect Jan Kaplický who died this week. He’s probably best known in the UK for the Selfridges store in Birmingham.
• Moof – Nice looking single-speed from Dutch designer ‘Ties Carlier’ which features built-in solar powered lights.
• Pretty Loaded – US agency Big Spaceship curated gallery of flash preloaders.

• Want! Ben Wilson’s Mini V – Inspired by Japanese mini velo’s.
• Been playing round with Spotify. The application works a treat and the availability of music is pretty good. So far I’ve only found a couple of bands that aren’t listed but I did manage to find some Chrome which more than makes up for it.
• Architect Zaha Hadid as guest editor for Radio 4′s ‘Today’ programme looks at the work of 60′s avant-garde architect group ‘Archigram‘ who’s ideas have been realised in Graz’s Kunsthaus.

Pionen – White mountain. Amazing underground data-center in Sweden, built and designed around a former nuclear shelter. It looks absolutely amazing with the variations in lighting and contrast between the natural rock, the materials and technology used. The architects ‘Albert France-Lanord Architects‘ say they took a lot of inspiration from science fiction films such as ‘Silent Running’ and the work of set-designer extraordinaire Ken Adam (Dr. No, Dr Strangelove), which definitely shows.

• LittleBits – Open source electronic components for easy electronic prototyping. A bit like the Philips Radionic Kit I had when I was a kid but better!
• Pump-Hub – Semi-automatic bicycle tire pump that fits into a hub. Great idea!
• Enter the world of Eichler Design. Great resource on the Eichler range of modernist homes built during the period of 1949 to 1966.

• Modernism in Australia- Interesting Google Maps mash-up, though it could do with some more photos
• Issuu – A place where publishers can publish and readers can read. All for free.
• The 50 greatest arts videos on YouTube – According to the Guardian that is. Highlights include Kurt Russell’s Star Wars audition, John Coltrane performing ‘My Favourite Things’ and Joy Division’s TV debut.

• Monocycle – Ben Wilson’s ‘Monowheel’, a working prototype commissioned by Issey Miyake for the xx21st Centry Man Exhibition.
• 15 Fab Prefabs – Great list which shows how far architecturally, the prefab has come from its postwar origins.
• Derelict London – Paul Talling’s nicely categorised collection of photographs of a hidden London.

Architect David Fisher has announced plans for a rotating skyscraper or ‘Dynamic Tower’ to be built in Dubai and Moscow. Its planned that each floor will rotate at a different speed resulting in an ever changing profile, therefore as the architect puts it, “introducing a fourth dimension to architecture, Time”. The building’s have been designed to be built from pre-fabricated parts manufactured off site allowing for a construction time of seven days per floor. Their green credentials will be that once built, they will be able to generate their own electricity therefore becoming self-powered. If successful there’s plans to build a third tower in New York. You can download a brochure for the Dubai proposal here.

• Graphic Design Museum – June 11th sees the opening of the world’s first museum to specifically focus on graphic design. The museum’s in Breda, Holland, and opens with four exhibitions including the semi-permanent ‘100 Years of Graphic Design in Holland‘. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to visit this summer.
• Baumraum – Amazing tree houses from Germany

• The Russian Garbo – Design agency Pentagram publish number 38 in their series of Pentagram Papers focussing on the restoration of the Richard Neutra designed ‘Sten-Frenke’ House.
• 25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and “frilly bits” put together by Cameron Moll
• Information Design Patterns. A fantastic resource – Christian Beren’s Masters Thesis ‘The Form of Facts and Figures’. Let’s hope it gets published.

• Wow – Zaha Hadid’s winning design of Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius
• Me = We. Al Gore’s New Logo for the Alliance for Climate Protection’s ‘We can solve it‘ campaign.
• Fantastic story about the salvaging of the Cougar Ace and it’s $103million cargo. Via Wired