An IKEA House

After posting recently about artists inspired by IKEA, I couldn't resist posting on the news that IKEA is soon going to start selling prefabricated houses in Germany. Apparently the houses are made by a company called BoKlok, a collaboration between IKEA and Skansa. They offer apartment buildings or houses that are "light, open, and well laid-out." I guess this was an inevitable next step in the IKEA revolution!

Metrotastic

Check out this article on cool subway stations round the world.
The Bund sightseeing tunnel in Shanghai reminds me of Leo Villareal's Multiverse in Washington DC:

In Stockholm, the stations are carved out of natural rock, and then often painted with murals:

Neat stuff!

Portable Opera

Munich has just unveiled a new opera house.

Pretty, no?
Here's the thing: it's portable! It can be packed up and fit into a shipping container.
Yet it seats 300 people!
I want to check it out...
from here.

Leo Villareal's Multiverse

I took this video at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. It's not the best quality but you get the idea. It was really cool to walk through, especially emerging into I.M. Pei's East Wing Building, with a basement full of contemporary art, on the other side.