“ReActor” is the latest experimental structure designed and built by artists Alex Schweder & Ward Shelley, commissioned by OMI International Arts Center. This 44-foot by 8-foot rotating house features privacy spaces Continue reading
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World’s Thinnest Observation Tower i360 Opens in Brighton
A shiny steel and glass, doughnut-shaped viewing platform rose up against a slender pole on the seafront of the English town of Brighton, yesterday afternoon, thus officially opening the world’s thinnest observation tower. Dubbed the “vertical pier” Continue reading
Edifício Itália
Edifício Itália is a 125.33 m tall 46-story skyscraper located in the República district, Central Zone of São Paulo, Brazil. Built from 1956 to 1965, it has a rooftop observation deck, open for tourists. Continue reading
Magnificent Handcrafted Paper Flowers
Tiffanie Turner, a San Francisco-based artist and architect, creates pink, red, yellow, orange and white flowers in crepe-paper. The originality is in the fact that these flowers are created in a giant model of 3 feet wide. Continue reading
Harbin Opera House
MAD Architects unveils the completed Harbin Opera House, located in the Northern Chinese city of Harbin. In 2010, MAD won the international open competition for Harbin Cultural Island, a master plan for an opera house, a cultural center, and the surrounding wetland landscape along Harbin’s Songhua River. Continue reading
The Orangery
The Orangery is temporary and can be visited at The Baroque Garden of Gl. Holtegaard Art Gallery until 2017.
The Orangery is situated in formal gardens at Gl. Holtegaard Art gallery in the northern part of sealand, Denmark. Continue reading
Casa Cook Hotel In Rhodes, Greece
Casa Cook is a new hotel brand by travel company Thomas Cook, that just opened its first location on the picturesque island of Rhodes, Greece.
This adult only hotel mentions that it’s a “new boutique hotel for the bohemian spirit.” There are 90 rooms, and each one of the rooms opens out onto a swim-up pool. There’s also a restaurant, bar, and pool area, as well a gym and yoga space. Continue reading
A Sun-Filled Chapel in Rural Argentina
Located in rural Argentina, ‘Saint Bernard’s Chapel’ is a religious building designed by architect Nicolás Campodonico in collaboration with a team of various other Argentinean architects, overlooking the vast landscape of the Pampa plains near the city of Córdoba.
The Happiest House in The World
A house that looks alive and jolly is not only possible in cartoons. This fanciful one-of-a-kind architectural piece was built in Braunschweig (or Brunswick), Germany at the beginning of the millennium. The main culprit for the Rizzihaus was the Brooklyn pop-artist James Rizzi, famous for his characteristic chromatic pop-art genius. Continue reading
Experimental Brick Pavilion
In front of the opportunity about experimentation in a domestic work of a small scale, it’s developed a series of essays that constitute the frame theorical-practical of the project, manipulating a traditional element of our constructive culture in search new meanings and possibilities. Continue reading