Jill Fehrenbacher of Inhabitat talks with Michelle Kaufmann, architect of mkdesigns, about her new Lotus House on display during the 2007 West Coast Green Conference, SF.
longer version: http://www.scribemed ia.org/2007/10/09/mk lotus/
Architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (Lot-ek) talk about their work transforming shipping containers into livable homes at the Postopolis event in NYC.
The WET Lamp is an elegant and playful series of glass lamps with an alluring water-submerged light bulb at its center. Putting an exposed light bulb in water certainly raises some eyebrows, but it also creates an intriguingly simple dimmer switch. When a thin silver rod is slid into the water, the WET Lamp turns on and becomes progressively brighter as the rod is submerged.
