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The stairs seen by Nils Eisfeld photographer become art

Le stairs are focal architectural elements and as such attract the eye, in this case that of the German Nils Eisfeld photographer.

Born in 1982 in Halle and raised in Dresden, his goal is to capture the beauty and harmony of the objects. More properly the unusual figures, architectural and graphic images geometries.

Architecture

House of Vans indoor skate park, Waterloo Station, London

House of Vans indoor skate park, under the London Waterloo station.

Developed through five tunnels winding under Waterloo Station, House of Vans offers visitors the chance to experience the only indoor skatepark in the British capital, consisting of an area in the shape of a concrete tank, a straight portion and mini-ramps.

Architecture

The suites of the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi in Sweden

Every winter a small village in northern Sweden welcomes visitors all about 50.000 ' "Icehotel", which each year opens with a new framework and a new artistic theme.

Hundreds of designers from around the world have chosen to participate by adding their influence to a "suite."

Product Selection

SDM Products Selection, a selection of design products able to improve the liveability of indoor and outdoor spaces, while at the same time expressing a mood.

Girotondo basket, King-Kong for ALESSI

Architecture

O-Office turns a dormitory in a hostel for immigrants.

The Chinese study or office, has masterfully reinvented this concrete structure abandoned and dilapidated, trsformandola in a hostel, part of the district city of art project.

The original building served as a dormitory for workers of Honghua factory that housed the first group of immigrant settlers.

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Google officially presents the Google Car, the first car that drives itself

Google has done it: has completed and officially presented (No big event, only one post on the page of Google Plus), the prototype of its autonomous vehicle, which is defined as "the best holiday gift we could've imagined" (the best gift for the holidays that we could have imagined).

The software engineer Sebastian Thrun in the company blog added: "We have always been optimistic about the possibility of advancing society through technology, that's why we pushed so much on self autonomous".

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Superheroes as immortalized in Flemish paintings from the photographer Sacha Goldberg

"Super Flamish" is the series of portraits where the French photographer Sacha Goldberg captures the modern superheroes as in Flemish paintings.

The icons of American culture from Superman to Wolverine are located within the atmosphere low light typical of Flemish paintings. The models chosen eerily resemble the interpreters of the film, dressed in costumes finely crafted processed according to the characteristics of the clothing of 17 century.