This is the Carmen Sprung Icosahedron. A little Googling suggests that Carmen Sprung is (a) German, and (b) a hugely prolific inventor of origami pieces. (Without being able to read German, that's as much as I could gather.) This icosahedron seems to be particularly popular. I really enjoyed making this piece, the units (30) were relatively easy to make, and the assembly mechanism was quite clever. It's surprising how solid and resistant to compression the final product is. Instructions for this piece can be found at:
http://www.origamiseiten.de/diagrams/kmodul02.pdf
You can also make an octahedron using 12 of the same units - very flexible. And just a heads up - the instructions are in German too, but it was pretty easy to work around the language barrier given the clear diagrams and universal origami notations.
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