Danish architecture firm Bay Arch (their site is worth a look, too) had a solution for the vulnerable Hollywood sign (until Hef stepped in to save the day as announced today). No one wanted to see the huge white iconic letters-in-the-sky get lost to a huge development project and architect Christian Bay-Jorgensen has a very LA solution: Turn it into a hotel.

Via Trendland
The hotel design project includes building the highest city hotel and transforming the Hollywood sign location into letter-shaped hotel units. Supposedly the best hotel in LA will offer 308 hotel rooms, each of which will offer beautiful accommodation, the hotel observation deck and panoramic view from the hill above the city.

“I am white. I am shiny. I am ceramic. I was made by hand moulded and shaped and glazed. I am unique. I am like a sculpture, a vase, a bowl. I am brilliant. There is no other like me. Inside me is a powerful machine.”

PlushDepartment of Amsterdam introduces computers for a modern lifestyle. Inside each handcrafted, ceramic casing is a high-powered PC ready to tackle all of your mouse-driven needs. Artists are commissioned to create one-of-a-kind pieces as well. The possibilities are endless. See them all here.

Through December 21st, an experiment in audience-participatory art is live at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. Social Souvenir has 300 t-shirts on display for purchase. Each shirt includes a quote from one of fifteen renowned artists like Yoko Ono, Erik Satie and Marcel Duchamp. Once you purchase your shirt, you enter your name and location into a database, which adds your info to a Google map. As the shirts disappear from the gallery, the map grows.  An interesting experiment in community-building and the use of new media.