Homeless Are Making Money With Their Handwriting
In order to raise money for a local charity, HOMELESSFONTS has made the handwriting of ten homeless people in Barcelona available as downloadable fonts.
Sidewalk Pop-Up Store Offers Free Clothes To The Homeless
Cape Town-based advertising agency M&C Saatchi Abel and the local Haven Night Shelter Welfare Organisation have joined forces to create a pop-up street store that offers free donated clothes to the homeless.
Emergency Shelters Made From Paper
After working for wealthy costumers year after year Japanese architect Shigeru Ban started to question his contribution to society and decided to give his career another direction with a very different clientele. He decided to create and build emergency shelters that help people in need in disaster struck areas with nothing so simple but paper. Being on this noble course since the 1990s he has not lost sight of it ever since.
IKEA Launches Flat-Pack Modular Refugee Shelter
With plenty of experience in manufacturing prefab design, IKEA has launched a modular refugee shelter that can be set up in only four hours at any place in the world. The light-weight construction comprises of a steel frame with insulated light-weight polymer panels and comes flat-packed in a cardboard box, like all IKEA furniture. The panels, pipes, connectors and wires can be assembled pretty easily thanks to a classic IKEA manual.
A Pigeon Fertilizing Tower Made Of Paper Bricks
Some weeks ago we highlighted the Freezing Favela, an artist community in Amsterdam that's building an indoor favela in a huge industrial hall. Different kinds of projects are stacked together here, creating an interesting urban micro-climate. One of the projects built during the Freezing Favela event is a pigeon tower made out of recycled paper.
Inspiration And Process In Architecture By Moleskine
Moleskine, purveyor of quality stationery, has added books to their repertoire. As of late, the brand has been branching out to better reflect our contemporary nomadism. These include city guides, reading accessories and, the latest addition, books. Moleskine's new collection, called Inspiration and Process in Architecture, is dedicated to four key figures/offices in contemporary architecture: Zaha Hadid, Giancarlo De Carlo, Bolles+Wilson and Alberto Kalach.
