Porsche unveils its new 918 Spyder concept at the 2010 Geneva Auto Show. It is a two-seat supercar powered by a 3.4-liter V-8 engine and a hybrid drive system. Read more here. Bottom: Photo of the Porsche 918 Spyder from the 2010 Geneva Auto Show. Link via TheCarConnection

Vincent Callebaut has created a whale-shaped mobile garden designed to drift through Europe’s rivers while purifying their waters. "The Physalia is a self-sufficient ecosystem that generates all the power it needs from the sun and works to reduce water pollution through bio-filtration," notes from Inhabitat. This project sounds like a good idea! Technical details about The ...

A unique house buried under the earth in Vals, Switzerland. Designed by the architects of SeArch and Christian Müller. Notes about the project (by Inhabitat): (...) It’s difficult to imagine any new construction that wouldn’t impose on the beautiful landscape. So when the rare opportunity was granted to construct a new dwelling just a stone’s throw away ...

Leaf art by Christoph Niemann--he  has his work on  display at "Abstract City" at the The NY Times blog channel. About the artist (from bio): Christoph Niemann's illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration. His work has won numerous awards from the American Institute ...

"Deformscape" is an outdoor architectual project by  Thom Faulders (founder of Faulders Studio). Notes about project by Faulders: Deformscape is an outdoor extension to a private dwelling in San Francisco. Situated in a tightly packed urban neighborhood, this limited space outdoor sculpture garden inherits a large tree, and uses this sole arboreal presence to establish a gravitational ...