Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
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Solar Powered Floating Resort Concept Is High Luxury
Italian industrial designer Michele Puzzolante has come up with a concept for the design of this self-sustaining floating resort/yacht hybrid. The Solar Floating Resort (aka SFR) is 20 meters long and offers luxury-seeking travellers an opportunity to experience marine life from a submerged pod, or the chance to sunbathe on the deck in an eco-conscious way. The SFR resembles a disc-like structure that connects and upper ...
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New York City’s Underwater Nightclub
The next time you are looking for a place to party in New York City, consider popping into the Underwater Nightclub in the Hudson River. Errr…wait, what?! Wearing old school scuba gear DOES look appealing, but we’re pretty thankful that this underwater nightclub is merely a concept, inspired by a wristwatch and presented by TechnoMarine. On the other hand, there is an upside to partying underwater ...
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Guinness Record For Playing Card Sculptures
The current record holder for card-stacking goes to architect Bryan Berg for his incredible reproduction of the taller house of freestanding playing cards in 1992. Commissions have come Berg’s way for him to break his own record, and with much success, he now has an impressive repertoire of building models constructed using nothing more than playing cards (and maybe some adhesive?). Berg, also known as the ...
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Hotel Pods Suspended Between Skyscrapers
Have you heard of {Live Between}? We have, and we think you should know about this incredible concept for a futuristic approach to hotels. {Live Between} is a mobile hotel designed by HKS Architects that offers guests the opportunity to sleep hundreds of feet above the ground in a suspended pod-like room. The hotel pods are intended to be mobile, changing their location from one amazing ...
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World’s Tallest Hotel In Dubai
The JW Marriott Marquis Dubai is scheduled to be built in 2012 and aims to dazzle guests. The hotel will be the tallest in the world, standing at 335 meters (1,164 feet), only 26 meters (85 feet) shorter than the Empire State building in New York City. The first phase of the hotel’s inauguration will see the opening of 807 rooms as well as a slew ...
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Gigantic Church Built With Lego
Dutch design firm, LOOS.FM is responsible for the design and construction of the Abondantus Giganticus, a 20 meter tall church-shaped contemporary pavilion created for the Grenwerk Festival in Enschede, The Netherlands. While the jumbo Lego blocks look to be real, they are actual just interpretations of the mini-sized building toy, but have many similar properties. Called LegioBlocks, these concrete building blocks, manufactured by Jansen Betonwaren, work ...
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Stunning Cathedral Made From 55,000 L.E.D. Lights
We literally gasped when we saw photos of the stunning Luminarie De Cagna – an imposing cathedral-like structure that was part of the recent 2012 Light Festival in Ghent Belgium. The structure towers 28 meters high (approx 92 feet) and consists of a colonnade made of wood and 55,000 LED lights that illuminate its facade and ceiling. Luminarie De Cagna is the name of an Italian ...
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Amazing Tall & Twisting Car Park Design
The Car Park proposal was designed by Interface Studio Architects in an attempt to integrate the automobile culture in the ever-expanding vertical environment in Hong Kong. This Car Park serves a greater purpose than merely a place to leave one’s vehicle while visiting the city. Instead, the Car Park will become a distinctive urban structure that fits in with the dynamic urban architecture in Hong Kong ...
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Entire Home Made From 1B Decommissioned Euro Notes
Ever wonder what happens to misprinted currency? In the case of decommissioned Euro notes, the money gets shredded and formed into a papery brick. The blocks hold no monetary value and are likely viewed as useless hunks of paper by the masses, but not to Irish artist, Frank Buckley. Buckley collected the pulped bricks totalling over 1 billion euro’s worth of paper shredded to build his ...
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Awesome Treehouse Hotel In Sweden
Staying in a hotel in Northern Sweden doesn’t have to be a run-of-the-mill experience thanks to the Treehotel – a group of unusual tree houses that are up or rent in Harads. The concept of the Treehotel was inspired by the film “The Tree Lover” by Jonas Selberg Augustsen, and brought to life by some of Scandinavia’s leading architects. All of the rooms are suspended approximately ...
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Abandoned Wonderland Theme Park In China
If you drive 45 minutes out from the centre of Beijing, China, you are likely to hit the 100 acres worth of the city’s abandoned amusement park, “Wonderland” that was scheduled to become the largest amusement park in all of Asia. After farmers forced to leave their land in order to make room for one of China’s new tourist attractions along the likes of a large ...
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Building Concept Resembles The 9/11 Attacks
For some reason, Dutch architectural firm MVRDV thought it was ok to design a set of towers that resemble New York City’s World Trade Towers under attack. The firm responded to the controversy surrounding their design by insisting that they had no idea that the towers resembled the two buildings surrounded by a cloud of smoke. And yet, there are claims that the firm admitted to ...
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The Modern Ruins Of Detroit City
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre are photographers from Paris who decided to take a trip to Detriot, USA, to capture the urban decay of the once thriving city that became more or less abandoned in 2005. The artists have a book entitled “The Ruins of Detroit” where they share images of the abandoned buildings they encountered during their stay. The book features chilling images of a ...
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Frank Gehry’s Amazing Lou Ruvo Center
Leave it to architect Frank Gehry to come up with this twisted and fabulously interesting design concept for the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. The centre was conceptualized in 2007 and founded by Larry Ruvo – the founder of “Keep Memory Alive” (also known as KMA), a research facility and health centre that Ruvo opened in memory of his father who was ...
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Korean Building Covered With 1000 Doors
Doors was an enormous 10-story public art installation made from 1,000 reused doors by South Korean artist Choi Jeong-Hwa.
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Insane Volkswagen Glass Car Silos In Germany
The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer centre where customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory, a guide to the evolution of roads, and cinema in a large sphere. ...
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Crazy Mirrored Building Defies Gravity
Bâtiment (Building) is a mirrored installation by artist Leandro Erlich currently on display at Le 104 in Paris as part of their In_Perceptions exhibition. The piece is clever in its simplicity: a massive building facade is constructed on the floor near a towering mirror giving anyone reflected the uncanny appearance of being weightless. Optical illusions are familiar territory for Erlich, whose pool installation appears to plunge ...
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Suspended Night Club In Hong Kong
The project by the young architectural studio Urbanplunger has been recently awarded the third prize in the Night Club Hotel in Hong Kong international competition. The main idea is to create a suspended building structure to comply with the extremely compact planning in Hong Kong. The whole structure is elevated above the ground by leaning on the nearby buildings. The nature of the design allows for ...
