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 »
New York Secret Rooftop World
Amazing aerial shots give you a view of city’s skyline as you’ve never seen it before. By Landsliders Aerial Photography.
Secret world: One of photographer Alex Maclean’s amazing aerial shots shows a block in Upper West Side. Continue reading »
Facebook’s New Headquarters in Menlo Park, CA
Menlo Park, is an affluent town at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. And it’s a new Facebook HQ. 1601 Willow Rd., Menlo Park, CA, 94025. Continue reading »
Monstrum Playground
Absolutely amazing playground design by MONSTRUM, a design company from Denmark. Cool, safety and creative! Continue reading »
Floriade 2012: World Horticulture Festival
It’s the return of the once-in-a-decade Netherlands flower fest, the Floriade 2012 World Horticulture Expo. With 1.8m bulbs planted across 44 hectares, and more than two million visitors expected over a six-month run, this is one of the gardening world’s stratospheric events. Here’s the view from the opening week. Photograph: Ermindo Armino/AP, Paul Raats/EPA, Robin Utrecht/AFP/Getty Images.
A field of flowers at Floriade in Venlo, the Netherlands, where the sixth edition of the festival has opened. Continue reading »
One57 Gets Glassy: Photos Of Midtown’s Newest Supertall Skyscraper
Midtown Manhattan’s much-awaited 1,004-foot One57 residential tower hasn’t topped out yet, but the first dozen or so floors have already gotten their glass façade (although some of the blue panels appear to still have their protective pastic coating). The Christian de Portzamparc-designed skyscraper, across from Carnegie Hall on 57th Street, will tower over the south end of Central Park, and will be the first major addition to the park’s skyline since Robert A.M. Stern’s 15 Central Park West, a limestone-clad throwback to the pre-war era, was completed in 2008. Extell Development is hoping One57’s six-bedroom penthouse will fetch $110 million, which would make it the most expensive single residence ever sold in New York.
The following are photos taken at a few different times at the end of March and beginning of April by Flickr user 600west218, who has allowed us to use his shots. Continue reading »
Valparaiso: Street Art From South America’s Most Unusual City
Valparaiso defies simple definition and is easily South America’s most unusual city. It’s labyrinthine hills – which overlook the enticing (but freezing) Pacific Ocean – are constantly surprising and oh-so inviting for the avid photog. In photographs by Felipe Bascuñán. Continue reading »
Window of the World: Europe Made in China
“Window of the World” is photo project by Pablo Conejo, a photographer from Spain, that shows you the most amazing architecture and landscape replicas of Europe, made in China.
Following the replicas subject around China I came across a themed park called “Window of the World”, located in Shenzhen. There are about 130 reproductions of the World’s most famous architectural icons. Among these monuments visitors can find a 108 metres tall Eiffel Tower, a Taj Mahal, a Vatican, a Niagara Falls, a Versailles Palace, a Mont Rushmor, a Christ the Redeemer and so on.
“Germany” Continue reading »
Aizhai Bridge: World’s Highest Tunnel to Tunnel Bridge
Aizhai is the world’s highest tunnel to tunnel bridge and the fourth suspension bridge in China to cross a valley so wide it seems to be connecting two mountain ranges. The first three were the Siduhe, Balinghe and Beipanjiang 2009 bridges. Of the world’s 400 or so highest bridges, none has a main span as long as Aizhai with a tower to tower distance of 3,858 feet (1,176 mtrs). Located deep in the heart of China’s Hunan Province near the city of Jishou, the suspension bridge is the largest structure on the Jishou to Chadong expressway with a deck 1,102 feet (336 mtrs) above the DeHang Canyon. Continue reading »
Taj Miami: How to Live Like a Boss for $4,199,000
One of Miami’s most unique properties, this three-story glass house, perched atop the Palace Condominium on Brickell Avenue, has a quirky cultural history. In 1981, Leona and Harry Helmsley were about to call this their sky residence when Saudi Sheik Saoud Al-Shaalan purchased the property and converted the already stunning structure to a Mughal Palace.
Unfortunately, the Sheik rarely visited this work of art he could have called home, but in 1999 international real estate developer antique weapons expert Anthony Tirri purchased the glass house, adorning it with Muslim weapons, furniture and art. Mr. Tirri has since moved on to Paris, where he has remodeled an 1135 chateau named after renowned French author Alexander Dumas.
For sale now for $4,199,000. Continue reading »
Modern Church in Linz, Austria
Amazing modern church in Linz, Austria, created by X Architecten, the architecture company from Wien. Continue reading »
USA Architecture: From Ziggurat to Diners
The “California Modern” Bethlehem Baptist Church, built in 1944 in the Compton area of Los Angeles, is Vienna-born architect R.M. Schlindler’s only church. Schlindler, who trained under Frank Lloyd Wright, designed building throughout his adopted city. Continue reading »
Real Madrid Reveal Plans for $1bn Resort and Theme Park in UAE
Real Madrid have revealed plans to build a $1bn holiday resort in the United Arab Emirates that is due to open in January 2015. Here are some computer generated images showing what it is set to look like.
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The resort will be located on the artificial island of Al Marjan in the United Arab Emirates. It will feature sports facilities, a marina, luxury hotels, villas, an amusement park, a club museum and a futuristic 10,000-seat stadium with one side open to the sea. (Handout/AFP/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Brand New Wall for Your Apartment
New collection of wall murals from Pixers, Poland design and interior studio, covered with pop-art and comics theme. Continue reading »
Modern Pylons
Check those awesome pylon concepts, created by DesignDepot, design studio, located in Moscow, Russia. Continue reading »
Rotary Clubs Light Up the World to Eradicate Polio
Rotary clubs will once again illuminate landmarks and iconic structures around the world in view of the group’s pledge to the ‘End Polio Now’ campaign. Worldwide, fewer than 650 polio cases have been confirmed in 2011, less than half the 1,352 infections reported in 2010.
Rotary is a global humanitarian organization with more than 1.2 million members in their 34,000 Rotary clubs spread over 200 countries. Rotary members are men and women who belong to the business, professional and community leaders with a shared commitment to make the world a better place and one of their top priorities is the global eradication of polio.
Hydrabad, India-Rotary Clubs Light up the World to End Polio. Continue reading »
Designs of the Year
The Design Museum’s new exhibition shows us the past year in 89 designs, from a virtual supermarket to a super-lightweight wheelchair.
Tesco Virtual Store in Seomyeon subway in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Home plus.
These touchscreen supermarket shelves offer online shopping on an underground platform. Continue reading »
Tower of Books
A three-story sculpture “tower of books” representing over 15,000 titles that have been written about Abraham Lincoln, are part of an exhibit at the Ford’s Theater Center for Education and Leadership in Washington. (AP)
