Nemo 33: World’s Deepest Swimming Pool
Located in Brussels, Belgium, the ‘Nemo 33’ is a diving center that has the world’s deepest swimming pool. Designed by Belgian diving expert John Beernaerts, the pool is 108-feet deep (34.5-meters deep), and contains 2.5 million liters of non-chlorinated, high-filtered spring water that’s kept at a temperature of 86-degrees Fahrenheit (30-degrees Celsius). Continue reading »
The Coolest University Dorm that You Can Imagine
Tietgenkollegiet or The Tietgen Residence Hall in Denmark is the coolest dormitory that you can imagine. The circular building has a very modern-looking yet well-thought design perfect both for studying and leisure.
The dormitory has 360 spacious rooms shaped as a pie slices. Their wide end facing the outer side of the building has either a big balcony or a French window. Each room has a toilet and a shower with a heated floor. There are comfy lounges and big kitchens shared by every 12 apartments. Tietgenkollet has a bike park, a large hall, movable bars for parties, quiet rooms for reading and studying and two music rooms with a piano and a drum set. Continue reading »
Abandoned Space Observatory in Puerto Rico
The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope near the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico. You may recognize it from various movies such as GoldenEye or The Losers, TV series like The X-Files or even video games (GoldenEye 007 or Just Cause 2). The observatory’s 305 m (1,000 ft) radio telescope is the largest single-aperture telescope ever constructed. Continue reading »
Stunning, Futuristic Redesign of IBM’s Office Buildings
Let’s have a look at IBM’s new high tech office buildings in Rome, Italy. They’ve been entirely renovated and largely expanded to give this amazing futuristic-like environment full of LEDs. Continue reading »
Bota Bota: The Floating Spa of Montreal
Bota Bota is a mid-century ferryboat resting on the St Lawrence river, Montreal, Canada. It has been restored and converted into a unique spa resort for 10 million dollars. The spa is set on 5 levels for a total surface of 3150m² (33,900 sq. ft.) and has pretty much everything you’d expect from a spa plus the beautiful view! Continue reading »
Palais Namaskar: Luxury Hotel & Spa in Marrakech
There are some places that are not easily described. Just as there are some experiences that are not easily compared. The luxury Palais Namaskar Marrakech hotel is both. Proudly standing amongst the gems of the Oetker Collection – a one-of-a-kind collection of masterpiece hotels – Palais Namaskar is also a member of the esteemed Leading Hotels of the World. Continue reading »
The “Suburban House” Project
Homes 25-feet under the sea are a real life Octopus’s Garden. Like the famous Beatle’s song the modern and suburban houses have been created by British artist Jason de Claires-Taylor as homes for all the fish, lobsters and octopuses that would normally live in the reef. (Barcroft) Continue reading »
Unusual and Creative Staircase Designs
Collection of unusual and creative staircase designs from around the world.
Levitate Architects came up with this ingenious solution to a book storage problem and created a loft-like bedroom nestled under the roof of the top-floor apartment. Continue reading »
SushiTa Restaurant Interior
SushiTa entrusts Solodesign to design its new restaurant in Ancona (Italy). Oriental tradition clearly inspires the environment but it is revisited in a western way using natural and eco-friendly materials. Continue reading »
OX Restaurant & Grill
OX Restaurant & Grill in Interlaken, Switzerland by Rolf Balmer, Raumforum. Continue reading »
LEGO Colosseum by Ryan McNaught
There’s nothing we love more than a finely crafted LEGO project, and that’s exactly what we have here from Ryan McNaught, one of the best certified LEGO builders in the game.
McNaught has built the world’s first Colosseum built entirely from LEGOs. The project took nearly 200,000 LEGO bricks to put together, and is currently on display at the Nicholson Museum in Melbourne, Australia until January 2013. The project is displayed in a half and half form, showcasing the Colosseum in its present day form on one side along with Rome’s original Colosseum circa 80 AD on the other half. Continue reading »
Cercle et Suite D’éclats by Felice Varini
The large-scale contemporary artwork created by Felice Varini was imposed on the traditional village of Vercorin in the Swiss Alps. Continue reading »
Minimalist Staircase
Minimalist staircase in Paris apartment by studio École, and in photographs by Xavier Lucas. Continue reading »
BP Bridge in Millennium Park of Chicago
Clad in brushed stainless steel panels, Frank Gehry’s BP Bridge complements the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in function as well as design by creating an acoustic barrier from the traffic noise below. Connecting Millennium Park to Daley Bicentennial Plaza, east of the park, this 925-foot-long winding bridge, Gehry’s first, provides incomparable views of the Chicago skyline, Grant Park and Lake Michigan. Continue reading »
City Hall – The Ghost Subway Station of New York
It was supposed to be the showpiece of New York City’s new subway system. Stained glass windows, skylights and brass chandeliers adorned its curved walls and arched ceilings. According to Daily Mail, City Hall station was unexpectedly closed to the public a mere 41 years after opening its doors in 1904. In photographs by John-Paul Palescandolo and Eric Kazmirek. Continue reading »
The Eco-house that lets You Live Like a Snail
Scandinavian architect Torsten Ottesjö’s Hus-1 is designed to reflect its landscape without drawing too much attention. Continue reading »
World’s Biggest McDonald’s Outlet to Open in London
When the Olympic Games begin in London next month, the capital will play host to the fittest, fastest and strongest athletes in the world. But it will also be home to a rather different superlative – the biggest McDonald’s on the planet, right in the middle of the Olympic park. So while the competitors stretch themselves to their very limits, hungry spectators will gorge on tens of thousands of burgers and portions of fries.
An exterior view of the world’s largest McDonald’s restaurant, their flagship outlet in the Olympic Park. (Getty Images) Continue reading »
Indoor Pool at the Hotel Catell dels Hams
The indoor pool at the Hotel Catell dels Hams on the Spanish Island of Majorca which was recently improved by designers from A2 Arquitectos. The space appears white and serene. Continue reading »
“Misconceivable”
An art installation called “Misconceivable” is fixed onto the roof of a hotel in Vienna. The installation of the lifesize yacht is an arts project by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm.
Shopping Mall Interior by Agence Search
French architects Agence Search have won a competition to design a Paris shopping mall with proposals involving giant elliptical lattices. Continue reading »
Microsoft Headquarters in Vienna, Austria
Designed by INNOCAD Architektur. Let’s have a tour! Continue reading »
Speculative Designs for Headquarters of Green Climate Fund in Bonn
LAVA‘s (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) vision for the proposed headquarters of the Green Climate Fund in Bonn is described as having ‘maximum impact’ and ‘an ideal working environment’. Continue reading »
Inside of Blizzard’s Office
For those of you who wouldn’t know, Blizzard is an American video game developer and publisher responsible for the famous, Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft games. I really don’t know who is an author of those photos. Let’s take a look at the office of Blizzard. Continue reading »
Inside the Google’s Headquarter in Zurich, Switzerland
A photo tour of Google’s Zurich HQ, where staff ride a slide to lunch and shimmy down a fireman’s pole. Continue reading »
Anagram Architects
Anagram Architects is a design consultancy firm established by Vaibhav Dimri and Madhav Raman in New Delhi in 2001. The partners are graduate architects from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. The firm’s practice is diverse and encompasses public infrastructure planning, urban design, architecture, sceneography broadcast design, furniture design and interior design. Continue reading »
