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Chapel in a Garden

Monday, March 2, 2009

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Chapel in a Garden

BUNKER ARQUITECTURA,Chapel in a Garden – La Estancia Chapel,2008,México. Designer: Bunker Arquitectura Location: Mexico Visit the website

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‘Harads’ Tree Hotel by Tham & Amp; Videgard Hansson Arkitekts

Sunday, February 8, 2009

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‘Harads’ Tree Hotel by Tham & Amp; Videgard Hansson Arkitekts

‘harads’ tree hotel by tham & videgard hansson arkitekter all images courtesy tham & videgard hansson arkitekter this is a concept for ‘harads’ a tree hotel created by swedish architectural firm tham & videgard hansson arkitekter. the cube design incorporates a kitchen, sleeping area, living area and a terrace. http://www.tvh.se

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Bird Island: Zero Energy Home in Kuala Lumpur

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

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Bird Island: Zero Energy Home in Kuala Lumpur

Bird Island is a stunning urban renewal project that is currently being developed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Designed by Graft Lab architects for the YTL Green Home Competition, the project comprises a zero energy home made of sustainably-sourced silicone glass fabric. Its lightness and flexibility will allow it to sway organically with the breeze just [...]

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50 Amazing Buildings of the World

Friday, January 16, 2009

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50 Amazing Buildings of the World

1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland) Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish drawer and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings. Image via: brocha 2. Forest Spiral – [...]

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2+ Weekend House by Conhouse

Monday, December 22, 2008

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2+ Weekend House by Conhouse

Designed by Jure Kotnik Arhitekt, the 2+ Weekend House is a container house with a difference – it’s made with containers manufactured expressly for housing (vs. cargo containers). “As opposed to the other container projects, which mostly feed on the excess of available cargo containers, ConHouse pushes the development of containers manufactured especially for housing [...]

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Silent City by Jellgren Kaminsky Architects – Tangshan Earthquake Memorial China

Monday, December 8, 2008

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Silent City by Jellgren Kaminsky Architects – Tangshan Earthquake Memorial China

swing lanterns part of ‘silent city’ tangshan earthquake memorial park ‘silent city’ is a proposal for the tangshan 1976 earthquake memorial park in china. designed by  swedish architectural firm kjellgren kaminsky the park consists of intervened layers of topography,  vegetation, water, paths, swing lanterns and message stones. the swing lanterns stretch throughout the park.  as [...]

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Urban Villa Domus Malles By Metrogramma

Monday, November 3, 2008

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Urban Villa Domus Malles By Metrogramma

Residential architecture has become less and less impressive nowadays. Lack of space, time or/and money could be some of the reasons behind the residential dull-design. But when a project demands for high creativity and the architects are completely up to the task, you’ve got something like the Urban Villa Domus Malles popping up in the [...]

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The Klein Bottle House

Monday, November 3, 2008

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The Klein Bottle House

The Klein Bottle House is located in Rye, australia and designed by Rob Mcbride. The unusual home design was inspired by its namesake: the klein bottle. this 19th century invention is used to describe a form which has no distinguishable inside or outside. The architects also wanted to move away from the paradigm of designing [...]

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Neil Barrett flagship store by Zaha Hadid Architects in Tokyo

Monday, November 3, 2008

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Neil Barrett flagship store by Zaha Hadid Architects in Tokyo

image © 2008 Virgile Simon Bertrand NEIL BARRETT FLAGSHIP STORE [TOKYO, JAPAN] / 2008 CLIENT : Neil Barrett PROGRAMM: Interior Design, Shop Tokyo ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects Design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher Project Architects: Claudia Wulf, Elke Presser, Torsten Broeder CONSULTANTS Fabrication: Cutting Edge (UK) Surface Material Supply: DuPont SIZES Furniture Dimension / Ground [...]

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Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees

According to the less alarming forecasts of the GIEC (Intergovernmental group on the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th Century). As a solution to this alarming problem architect Vincent Callebaut [...]

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