Design

Creativity Beyond Belief!

Abandoned German Nuclear Plant Transformed Into Wunderland Kalkar Amusement Park! Wunderland Kalkar Inhabitat

Digging into this story, in Kalkar in 1972, construction was started on the SNR-300, the first large breeding reactor in Germany.

The reactor was designed to use plutonium as fuel and be cooled by sodium, giving it a higher potential for disaster. Opposition built to the power plant, and the highly controversial was continually delayed.

Finally completed at enormous expense, the nuclear facility never opened. Besides community concerns, the reactor would have rendered the building contaminated and unusable, becoming both a political and environmental nightmare.

The building is essentially one of the most expensive, complicated pieces of trash in the world and lives a new life as an amusement park.

Functional Fair Tales

‘Charms & Disguises’ by Jenny Ekdahl Core77

Jenny Ekdahl is currently pursuing her Masters degree at Sweden’s Lund University School of Industrial Design. Her Spring 2011 project “Charms & Disguises,” which was recently exhibited at DMY Berlin, is an exploration of the deeper meaning of fairy tales.

Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club

Stefan Andren of Krown Lab Corel77

Miss Piggy Goes to Bergdorf

In truth, we can’t take any credit for this idea. It all belongs to Racked but works here because — after all — we began this Daily Smarts with Germany turning nuclear power plants into amusement parks. Max Farago has lensed some very sophisticated images of Eniko Mihalik for Bergdorf Goodman Pre-Fall 2011. Farago images are very ‘haute’ — shall we say.

Now for the amusement part, thanks to Racked. Inside the Bergdorf Goodman Magazine, Glenn O’Brien interviews Rivers about working with Miss Piggy, being a Bergdorf’s customer, and all the guff she takes in the press.

Ms Piggy & Joan Rivers Work the Beauty Department at Bergdorf’s