Ever wondered how sweets are made? Visit a Papabubble Sweet Shop and you’ll be shown exactly how its done! Papabubble have stores in Barcelona, New York City, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Seoul, Taipei and Lisbon shown below… Papabubble can do any sort of sweet you may request from personalised sweets to different mixture of flavours right before your own eyes. Its an excellent franchise that is very well branded and their sweets taste great!
TA Bags is an excellent design range of wallets, bags and belts from urban waste made in Portugal. Wallets, bags, and belts are made from old milk/juice cartons and coffee packaging. TA Bags bring new life to urban wastes, taking advantage of their shapes, design and quality to make very solid wallets, bags and accessories. All products are hand-made or sewn in Portugal in a small production and wastes are collected locally. Check out the TA Bags store on Etsy here.
The Spanish Pavilion for Expo Shanghai 2010 really is a work of art. The concept of the building is based on the handicraft of making wicker baskets, a handicraft evidnet in both China the expo hosts and Spain. See the an extract about the concept from the architects Miralles Tagliabue EMBT below.
“The project proposed by EMBT consists on developing the handicraft technique of the wicker into a practice of construction. With this goal in mind, the universal language of the material works to build a bridge between East and West, and among Spain and China. With the volumetric, material, and structural inspirations of a wicker basket array, the void of the stands will mold a pavilion in which tubular metallic supports will sustain a wicker grid that will filter the light and function as a climatic membrane that wraps the pavilion.”
It really is a spectacular pavilion and worth checking out in greater detail on the EMBT website.
image courtesy miralles tagliabue EMBT
image courtesy miralles tagliabue EMBT
Took a photo of the signage for Silvercup Studios, home of TV productions like 30 Rock, The Sopranos, and movies like Date Night and other numerous New York based shows and movies. Had to photograph the sign on top of building – wish there were signs like that in Ireland.
The art installation Event Horizon, Madison Square Park, NYC is running from March 26 to August 15 2010. Sculptor Antony Gormley’s installation has 31 life-size iron and fiberglass figures in and around Madison Square Park, 27 of them on rooftops of the area’s buildings, really is an impressive installation. See if you can spot the various sculptures on the buildings below…
