Eruption of the Cordon del Caulle. Chile.

via: National Geographic Photo Content 2011

I would love this as a coffee mug. I wonder what it’s like to grip. 

I also wonder if this is part of a series of animal mugs.

(Source: happinessbythekm)

via: ourbirthmarks

(Source: soulhunting)

Bilgili Holding Office Interior by Tanju Özelgin

Nice considerations for hotel design and architecture too.

via: Contemporist

A cloud of charged particles from the sun slammed into Earth [this past] Monday, setting off an intense geomagnetic storm that spawned northern lights across the U.S.

(photo: Michigan)

Ethereally surreal.

via: National Geographic

(Source: Flickr / _miaslo)

Walk through clouds, literally. 

TRANSSOLAR & Tetsuo Kondo Architects created Cloudscapes. Visitors experience a real cloud from below, within, and above, floating in the center of the Arsenale. Venice, Italy.

via: ourbirthmarks

Heinz Isler’s ice structures. 

This is what I would call the art of nature and physics.

Heinz Isler, a swiss engineer, started experimenting with ice just a few years afer graduating from university. He would hang nets, cloth, strings and balloons on trees; supporting them from below with rods. Taking on their natural form through their own weight and the wind, they would then be sprayed with water and ice over to form self supporting structures. A millimeter thick layer of ice was enough to allow the supporting structure to be removed, leaving them suspended.

via: safetythird

A molded plywood elephant designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1945.

The molded plywood division of Evans Products Company was kept busy by the Eameses, first during World War II manufacturing splints and stretchers, then afterward with their sturdy molded plywood furniture. The elephant was among their first designs for children.

via: Dwell

(Source: ummhello)

ARQMOV Workshop have designed the Kiral Apartments in Mexico City.

via: Contemporist

Wryneck Table by Pool Design Studio

via: Contemporist

(Source: ummhello)

Czech designer Rony Plesl has created the Uovo D’argentis and Uovo D’oro hand blown glass chandeliers for the lighting producer Lasvit.

Modern palatial. Would be a beautiful chandelier in appropriately sized large lobbies or restaurants or massive halls.

via: Contemporist

A Manhattan Apartment Makeover by Shelton, Mindel & Associates

via: Architectural Digest