Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Modern Fossils by Christopher Locke
We’ve all seen technology improving at a breakneck pace over the last couple of decades. While it’s nice to have fresh and shiny new gadgets that work better, we are discarding outdated electronics in alarming numbers.
These modern fossils are hand-made in Austin by artist Christopher Locke. Each one represents a different piece of "modern" technology that has already become extinct.
The artist has also collaborated with the local Goodwill computer and electronics recycling program, insuring that there is zero e-waste from this project.
The Atlantis Palm Hotel and Resort in Dubai
Dubai possesses already world’s most luxury hotel, The Burj al Arab.
Very soon another highest class hotel will be added: the amazing Atlantis The Palm Hotel. It is a hotel with 1729 rooms and 17 restaurants, and will be opened to the public on 24th September. The construction lasted 4 years and cost 1,5 billion dollars.
This hotel is dedicated to water: it has a huge water aquarium under the hotel ( more stocks, 11 billions of water ) and a huge water park near the hotel ( the biggest from Dubai and Middle East ). The 113-acre Atlantis hotel in Dubai is hoping to defy the credit crisis as it opens, with rooms costing up to £13,000 a night.
