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The architect Eugene Tsui

Translated by Silvia — Considering the growth rate of the world population and the tendency towards unbridled urbanization, the estimation is that by the end of next century, almost all of the surface of the Earth will be covered in houses, residences, malls and industrial plants. Projects such as ULTIMA Tower take on even more value and seem like concrete solutions towards the respect of the natural environment and the future generations.

An impressive building in the shape of a volcano, 3.2km high and capable of hosting 1.000.000 people is indeed the concrete answer given by the architect Eugene Tsui against the problem of uncontrolled urbanization that foresees, within the next 7 years, another important increase in urbanization that will bring to 22 the number of metropolises with over 10 million inhabitants, as said by the United Nations.

After being impressed by architectonic suggestions such as the Moscow City Tower and the Crystal Island, devised for Moscow by one of the most prestigious architects studios in the world, Fosters & Partners; or by the new tower scheduled to be erected in Tokyo, the X-Seed 4000, which recalls Mount Fuji from the Taisei Construction Corporation; here is today’s ULTIMA Tower that, in the world of bio mimetic architecture, is surely the most representative suggestion.

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Translated by Silvia — From Treg Bradley’s inventive mind and Karim Rashid’s biomorphic creativity was born Grobal, an innovative vase for the failed green thumbs out there, colourful, self-watering and… “techno-organic”.

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The enlargement of the Eiffel Tower by the Serero Architects Studio

Translated by Silvia – An early April’s Fool joke that will make you think about how word of mouth on the internet is ever more powerful: the news of the enlargement of the top part of the Eiffel Tower for the 120^th anniversary of its construction that will fall in 2009 was indeed a hoax. The denied piece of news comes from the actual Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE), the agency that takes care of the management of the monument, symbol of the French capital by excellence, and without a doubt one of the most famous towers in the world.

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Translated by Silvia – Rise and Sigh, a collection of sheets that leave on our skin intriguing and intimate messages about the night we just spent at the hotel is the amusing and tantalizing suggestion made by Martina Carpelan (class of 1979).

Presented for the Helsinki Hotel project, the young Finnish designer has literally transformed the candid, but often anonymous, hotel sheets into typographical models that will temporarily stamp phrases on our skin according to where and in what position in the bed we spent the night.

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