How can a well designed idea change a community?

Look at the following design ideas in action. Each has been inserted in an urban context as a solution to a certain problem. These designs also have unintended consequences that elevate their usefulness. Really well designed buildings, objects or spaces can captivate your imagination, re-orient your way of thinking and in some cases re-define how you perceive reality.

1- Opera house in Oslo, Snohetta




2- Quiet outdoor space- Paley Park and Art Institute South Garden







3- Art museum- The Pompidou Center in Paris by Piano and Rogers
& The Bilbao Guggenheim by Frank Gehry







4- Retail store- Apple Store in NYC by BCJ & the Prada Store in Tokyo by H deM






5- Library- Seattle Library, OMA







6- Playground, Isamu Noguchi at Piedmont Park



7- Sculpture- Picasso at Daley Plaza




7- iPod by Apple

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How to design "green" with shipping containers. Follow the link below for a collection of images that show shipping containers being re-purposed in new and inventive ways.

www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/shipping-container-homes-460309

Why is re-purposing a shipping container a good idea for the environment? How is this a sustainable idea?