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Bloom – a conceptual design by French architectural firm Sitbon Architectes has been selected as a finalist in the ‘architecture and weather’ category of the Architizer A+ Awards – a semi submersible spherical lab and garden tethered by cables to the ocean floor.

As well as desalinating seawater for use by a resident staff of marine biologists and researchers, the structure is designed to cultivate C02 consuming, oxygen producing microscopic marine phytoplankton and monitor ocean chemistry to provide advance warning of tsunami and other natural events.

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The-Lake-Monsters-of-AmericaFull sized map and descriptions of some of the cryptozoological oddities from ‘nessies’ to webbed hominids and a ‘giant eel pig’ at Atlas Obscura.

A 1923 eyewitness account of the monster of Alkali Lake in Nebraska reported that the single-horned alligator-esque creature let out a “dreadful roar” from the water. Described as 40 feet long with a horn like a rhinoceros, as well as an atrocious smell that is near fatal in itself, it’s apparently a very hungry creature and devours anything in its path. Mostly this has been livestock. Sightings peaked in the 1920s, but have since faded, so perhaps Alkali Lake, now called Walgren Lake, is free from its fearsome, smelly unicorn beast.

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A customized aluminium and steel vintage racing motorcycle by Sebastan Errazuriz produced by Worth Motorcycle Company and built by NYC Norton, which goes on show at Art/Basel Miami Beach next month.

The artistic message, aside from the spectacular build, is encapsulated by a taxidermied bird fitted inside a glass sarcophagus in the fuel tank – a symbol of ‘the fragility of life and the recognition of death’.

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Fed up of space-invading fellow commuters on the packed commuter trains of Singapore, industrial designer Siew Ming Cheng repurposed strips of spiky plastic material normally used for keeping birds and cats away from plants to create the Spike Away Vest.

It’s her take on a wonderful Japanese design concept known as ‘chindogu’, which you can read about here and decide for yourself whether or not she’s achieved.

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