Red Bluff Residence

A modern and eco-friendly spin on the ancient pit-house

Austin-based Bercy Chen Design Studio often aims to modernize the architectural staples of yesteryear, bringing the sustainability of our ancestors into a 21st-century context. Their newest project, the “Red Bluff Residence,” works to reinvent the ancient pit-house—once common to hunter-gatherer societies—for an effective site-specific architectural installation. With sustainability as their goal, the original pit-house structure provides the Bercy Chen team with a fair starting point. …

A Series of Walks/A Series of Walks (Displaced)

A performance artist reinterprets Google Street View to create an immersive video installation

Google Street View summons panoramic, street-level images of cities and towns at the click of a mouse, wherever its car-mounted cameras can go. Nahanaeli Schelling, a recent graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), confronts Street View’s exhaustive documentation of where we live with her thesis project, “A Series of Walks/A Series of Walks (Displaced).” In her statement, Schelling asks, “What information are we afraid …

CH iPad Giveaway Number Eight

Tweet a song about a Cadillac to win an iPad. Be sure to @coolhunting and #cadillac

For the last seven weeks, we’ve been giving away Apple iPads and Speck custom cases to celebrate our Cool Hunting iPad app, sponsored by Cadillac. Each time around there’s a different way to enter; this week you’ll need to follow Cool Hunting on Twitter and tweet the name of a song about a Cadillac with @coolhunting and #cadillac included (only one entry per person per …