Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category
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Castle Made Out From Human Hair
Thanks goes out to artist Agustina Woodgate for being creative (and weird) enough to build two castles out of compressed human hair bricks. The works of art are entitled “Tower” (2008) and “Sand Castle” (2008) and are part of the series called “I Want To Be A Princess”. “Tower” stands on a 2 foot square base (61cm), and reaches 4.5 feet tall (121cm), and took 3,000 ...
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Steampunk Apartment In New York City
Screen writer Jeremy Noritz’s New York City 1,800 square meter (19,375 square foot) apartment in Chelsea was for sale over the summer for 1.75 million – a steep price for your average dwelling, but likely a steal considering its location and the super-awesome steampunk interior design job that makes this apartment look more like a film set. Some of the unique design features include a submarine-style ...
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Apartment Designed With 25,000 Ping Pong Balls
Snarkitecture has designed a 90 square meter (968 square foot) loft using 25,000 ping pong balls. The Brooklyn-based project is entitled the “Box Box Project” and belongs to one of the partners of Snarkitecture, Daniel Arsham, a graduate of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Luckily for visitors, the ping pong balls actually blend together to create a surprisingly interesting appearance of ...
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Tiny Apartment Transforms Into 24 Rooms
In Hong Kong, because of the space, apartments are small and expensive. Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 sq. ft. apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. He calls this the “Domestic Transformer.” Source: www.jellywoo.com/
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Amazing Suburbs From The Sky
Denver Suburbs, USA Favelas in Rio de Janeiro Palm Jumeirah in Dubai Pigeon Houses, Mit Gahmr Delta, Egypt Sha Kibbutz, Israel Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa Suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark This is a collection of aerial photography produced by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. He founded the Altitude Agency in 1991, which was the world’s ...
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World’s Largest Aquarium
If you’re looking to visit the world’s largest aquarium, head over to Atlanta, in the United States of America to visit the Georgia Aquarium. More than 8.5 million gallons of marine and fresh-water house 120,000 animals of 500 different species. The main attractions are the aquarium’s four young whale sharks from Taiwan, four beluga whales and four manta rays. Bernie Marcus and his wife, Billi, decided ...
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The Floating Cities Of The Future
Real estate opportunity in most cities is dwindling, and while we can appreciate the high rise and up-in-the-sky living, this floating city (or rather, an ecopolis as it’s been termed) peaked our interest. Vincent Callebaut, the principal architect of Vincent Callebaut Architecture, has designed the Lilypad, a concept for a self-sufficient floating city with permanent residents for climate refugees. The Lilypad is meant to sail (float?) ...
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How IKEA Would Build Stonehenge
British writer, Justin Pollard, collaborated with Stevyn Colgan and John Lloyd to design a hilarious infographic inspired by IKEA’s how-to-build graphic instructions. The infographic is entitled “Henj”, and depicts the steps one would take in order to build the infamous Stone Henge in Wiltshire, Britain. Keeping true to original IKEA infographics characteristics, the imagery is black and white, the title of the furniture (or in this ...
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Insane Victorian Lego Houses
Lego artist Mike Doyle creates incredible Victorian mansions using no foreign materials, just pure tiny plastic bricks, including LEGO. His latest work, Victorian on Mud Heap, uses nearly 130,000 pieces and took 600 hours to complete. For me, this piece speaks to the inherent unpredictability of those things which we call our foundation. Like a little dollhouse, a seemingly secure home is plucked up and set ...
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Reschen: The Sunken Clock Tower
In the western part of South Tyrol in Italy, approximately 2km (1mile) from the Austrian border is Lake Reschen (a.k.a. Lago de Resia in Italian) – the largest man-made lake in the province, with a capacity of 120 million cubic meters (or 97,000 ac-ft). The lake is kept alive by the Adige, Rojenbach and Karlibach rivers, and drained by the Adige river. In 1920, there were ...
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Stunning Circular Tower In Taiwan
What will they think of next? Innovation and creativity are definitely coursing through the veins of the team at Chicago-based architectural firm, STL Architects, and the proof is in the making. STL Architects has designed the concept behind the 320-meter-tall (1,049 feet) circular building that will call Taichung City in Taiwan its home. The structure is intended to be used as a hub for leisure and ...
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The World’s Wickedest Tree House
This awesome piece of residential architecture in the woods of Portland, Oregon was designed by architect Robert Harvey Oshatz for a client who wanted a unique, modern house that is inspired by music. Oshatz’s design features flowing, rhythmic forms and took seven years worth of drawings and construction. The project was completed in 2004, but is every bit as fresh and original as far as residences ...
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SAN FRAN SKYLINE MADE OF POTS AND PANS
Zhan Wang is a Beijing-based artist who is responsible for sculpting this San Francisco cityscape out of pots, pans, graters and other kitchenwares. This piece of work is entitled “On Gold Mountain” and was featured at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. It has received a lot of publicity because of the accurate depiction of the city by means of creative methods and materials. The ...
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT LEGO HOUSES
FALLINGWATER Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934, Fallingwater® is perhaps the most famous residential home in the world. Open to the public since 1963, this masterpiece exemplifies Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architectural style by intimately merging man with the surrounding landscape. This highly-detailed LEGO® model, co-developed and designed by architect Adam Reed Tucker, captures all of the distinctive features that make Fallingwater an architectural landmark. ...
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HAMMOCK-SHAPED HOUSE
The Casey Key Guest House was designed by Florida-based TOTeMS Architecture to resemble the shape of a swinging hammock, but the design materials and interior finishes are also reminiscent of the peacefulness and relaxation that is associated with swinging away in a hammock. The client requested a design that was “a house in the trees” including a one bedroom, bath, living area and kitchenette. The natural ...
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ENTIRE TEMPLE BUILT FROM RECYCLED BOTTLES
Do you have 1.5 million empty beer bottles hanging around and don’t know what to do with them? Well, today is your lucky day. Instead of sending the bottles to the recycling plant (which is what you should do), you can recycle them in your very own way by building a Buddhist temple just like Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew. The monks at this temple have ...
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ROCK CLIMBING BOOK CASE
Sallie Trout went fairly far out of her normal interior, furniture, lighting and hardware design experience to create this towering family library right in the centre of her own home. While some shelves can be reached from the floor, adjacent landing or from the triangle-shaped spiral stairs, the rest of the books are accessible only by remote-controlled chain hoist that is attached to a bosun’s chair ...
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WORLD’S HIGHEST TENNIS COURT
By now you’ve likely heard all about the incredible feat of architectures in Dubai, well, there’s more! Leave it to the incredible architects and engineers behind the Burj-al-Arab, the fourth tallest hotel in the world, to develop an outdoor tennis court nearly 700 feet above the ground. The circular court doubles as a helipad when there aren’t any bouncing balls around. Famous tennis players, Andre Agassi ...
