BKK Architects is a great architectural firm based out of Melbourne, Australia (the house itself is located in Victoria). It seems a number of their residential projects utilize wood and lots of it. The vertical wall planks of the first few photos and slabs of rock of the chimney faintly remind me of mid-century housing.

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Wikileaks

I bet if you closed your eyes and pictured what the Wikileaks offices would look like, it would come pretty close to the real thing. That’s because it is housed inside no other than a defunct war bunker located 100 feet underground! This is also where they keep some of those precious servers that contain their damning data leaks. Eat your heart out, Batman.

Etsy

This office space is a beautiful hodgepodge of furniture and décor — the perfect illustration of their own website. It all blends very nicely with the raw loft space. The large windows make the rooms feel lively while the open floor plans seem to be a common theme we continue to see in new offices which encourage collaboration and dialogue between workers.

Yelp

Situated in sunny San Francisco, this vibrant space is really the antithesis of a traditional work environment. We love the stickers/posters that adorn the walls as well as the awesome “bike lobby”. This is another space that feels much more like a home than a stingy office.

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Slow Sofa, by Dutch designer Frederik Roijé, removes the need for a separate coffee table, integrating it in a single piece of furniture. It can be reconfigured in various arrangements, including a corner sofa. Parts include a table, storage, cushions and a frame support that can be used for seating or as a daybed.

Slow Sofa. Yes, please!

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“If you make music or follow artists like Daedelus you’re probably familiar with the Monome, the grid based OSC controller that gave birth to new ways of composing and performing music. The same people that make the Monome are back with a new controller, this time in the form of the Arc, a high-resolution OSC controller with two knobs which double as push buttons. Like the Monome before it, the Arc is beautifully designed, outfitted in the signature walnut/aluminum casing. At $500 I can tell you right now I’m not getting one, but the Arc sure is pretty to look at; that led ring is absolutely stunning.”

“Whenever I see an elegant interface like this I’m always left to wonder why we don’t have more control surfaces for Photoshop (I know people have found ways to control Photoshop with midi but I’m talking purpose-built controllers). Really, if Adobe were to open up to native osc or even midi support, we’d be off to a running start with all the pre-existing musical devices out there.”

early arc experiment from tehn on Vimeo.

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What appears at first to be a flock of smart starling birds doing their thing around an invisible box between the US and Canadian border near Vancouver is actually a billboard sculpture by Lead Pencil Studio built from thousands of metal rods swarming a shape as if a billboard to draw attention to the living landscape behind.

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