With the late 2012 opening of the Gehry–designed Biomuseo, officials are hoping the “Bilbao effect” will make it “a new icon for Panama.” But while iconic, the design says little about the museum’s green mission, writes Kelly Chan.

Balthazar Korab calls himself as “an architect who makes pictures rather than a photographer who is knowledgeable about architecture.” Imagery by Eero Saarinen’s in-house photographer are collected in a new book.

Through his New York Times quiz, “Are You A Pessimist or An Optimist?,” filmmaker Errol Morris attempts to expose a link between perception and typography. He asks: “Are there certain fonts that compel a belief that the sentences they are written in are true?”

Berlin-based Christopher Bauder has partnered with Philip to create the LivingSculpture 3D module system. Using new light technology, “the sculpture consists of tons of small mirror-flat panels that seem to undulate and flow like the ocean overhead.”

Artist Koo Jeong-A, alongside consultants Brusk and Barricade, has created OTRO—a skateable, phosphorescent moonscape in the middle of a French reservoir. Jeong says the park will add to the island’s “unreal, phantasmagoric, and powerful dreamscape.”

Designers Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel are uniting fashion with digital photography. Come September, their CONSTRVCT label will print any digital image—photograph or illustration—onto shirts and dresses designed by their clients.

Bicycling to work is about to get a bit greener. Israeli designer Izhar Gafni has built “water-resistant bicycle, made, from seat to spokes, entirely of recycled cardboard.” Production and global distribution will start in 2013.