In preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics Beijing people designed great sculptures portraying a greener version of China than we are used to seeing every day.

In the last few decades China has become a country of consumption which lead to devastating environmental consequences.

So what is China doing about these serious environment issues? Is appearing that Beijing is trying to make the city greener with the Olympic Gardens that have a beautiful design and amazing landscaping.

It has more than one million of rarity flowers and trees of over 1,000 species from 205 countries and regions in the five continents.

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Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland, started a project that became one of the most ambitious public gardens created in Europe since World War II.

Only two thirds of the project, has been built so far, at a cost of about $86 million, most of which came from public financing and private donations.

Jacques Wirtz, a Belgian landscape architect is considered by some the modern equivalent of the designer of the gardens at Versailles.

He was hired by the duchess to design some parts of the garden.

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Why is your chair obese?Maybe because it is designed for couch potatoes being very confortable to stay all day in it ?

The first chair is designed by Charlotte Kingsnorth of Buckinghamshire New University which took First  place in a Furniture Design Contest.

The idea behind this chair was ” inspired by the new Vitra Edition collection that is unencumbered by commercial constraints and pushes the boundaries of innovative furniture design”.

Kingsnorth says she was inspired from the obesity of people and Jenny Saville’s paintings: “a sofa that has been devoured by its obese occupier”. “The flesh has spilled and encased the sofa… until the two have married into a new grotesque form,” she explains.

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A ‘Demolition Party’ is a party where they VIPs are invited to smash, wreck and generally annihilate anything left standing in the building: corridors, stairways, lobbies, rooms, etc.

Belgian designer and artist Arne Quinze created a temporary installation at the 5 star Parisian hotel Le Royal Monceau last month, before the hotel’s closure for a year with Philippe Starck designing the new interiors.

The installation called REBIRTH is a unique futuristic wooden sculpture, the hotel didn’t plan to go quietly giving an exclusive party.

The installation features 15 km of fluorescent red wood and 40 video screens to offer the public a mind-bowing and unique experience.

“REBIRTH reflects the transition moment in which the building’s DNA reveals its disorder, history and countless stories. It bursts out all it’s captured energy of the hotel’s last decades.

It is an organic fragmentation bomb that hangs still in the air, just for one moment, in perfect formation, before dissolving, disappearing and turning into a new, well-structured pattern again…”

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Fashion designer Luana Jardim presented a collection of dresses, Specular, made of iron at Fashion Rio.
The dresses are interesting but kind of weird…

What I wonder is … if they need some reparation you need will need a welder or a blow torch?

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