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Cocoon is located on a beautiful hillside, which enjoys excellent lake and mountain views. The location’s distinctive flair stems from the exceptional park-like setting; a green oasis into which Cocoon as a freestanding sculptural volume snugly nestles. The stainless steel mesh enveloping the building combines visual privacy with restrained elegance, while establishing a strong and [...]
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Google’s Swiss Headquarters
Google’s philosophy that work and play are not mutually exclusive is definitely shown off in form of game rooms and themed.
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Tags: Architecture, Design, emea, google, switzerland
Klein Bottle House
the klein bottle house by mcbride charles ryan, have won the award for world’s best home
at this year’s world architecture festival awards. located in australia’s mornington peninsula,
the holiday home features a living room perched on a canopy of trees, and celebrates
the country’s traditional beach houses, while still functioning as a practical and useful
home.
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The Frame Hotel, Dubai
The Frame Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
With the walls constructed of dark, solar protected glass, the abundant plant life of this Villamoda Galleries design is clearly visible at the right angles and the neatly kept vertical gardens appear as if they’re part of the hotel’s very structure and are a stunning blend of nature and [...]
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Tags: Architecture, Design, DUBAI, frame, frame hotel, hotel, TREES, United Arab Emirates, villamoda galleries
San Fransisco designers Studio O+A have completed the headquarters for social networking website Facebook in Palo Alto, California.
Located in a former laboratory constructed in the 1960’s, the building houses over 700 employees.
The designers re-used many of the former lab benches and equipment for the new offices.
The design uses colour-coding to differentiate between teams within the open-plan space.
Some [...]
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Tags: Architecture, FACEBOOK, FACEBOOK HQS, headquarter, o+a, palo alto
“Imagine housing, recreational and cultural facilities connected to a continuous, lushly planted, green strip, floating above the water-an aerial garden, as the city’s newest park through which you could walk and wander and enjoy the most spectacular views of the bay,” reads an excerpt from the proposal by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello.
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Tags: Architecture, BAY AREA, bridges, CONCEPTS, Design, PARKS, San Francisco, SF
Designed by Renzo Piano, Vulcano Buono is an epic cone-shaped commercial center crowned with a gorgeous sloping green roof. Piano’s “good volcano” contributes a vital new space to the southern edge of the Nola commercial district, which is the most most important freight terminal complex in southern and central Italy.
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Tags: Architecture, BUILDINGS, Italy, mall, volcano buono
Quirky and full of unexpected design choices, this Australian residence by Kavellaris Urban Design, asserts that holding onto old architectural aesthetics can be both silly and unsustainable. The Perforated House’s high-tech, translucent exterior is etched with ornamental details to pose commentary on contemporary homes that adhere strongly to traditional architectural typologies — the terrace home, in [...]
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Tags: Architecture, Design, PERFORATED HOUSE
Rebuilding New Orleans is an ongoing effort and pitching into the concept-zone is the New Orleans Arcology Habitat or NOAH. Since the details on this structure are in-depth and plenty, lets plunge into them right away. NOAH proposes to be a habitat for 40,000 residents who can benefit from the planned residential units, school system, [...]
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Tags: Architecture, arcology habitat, building, eco-friendly, Environment, Future, new orleans, NOAH
Designed by architects Jim Zack and Lise de Vito, partners in life and work, as their family home, it is striking on many levels, and although not even 2 years old, it has won prestigious architectural and building awards.
From the moment ground was broken for the home in 2007, it caught the attention of the [...]
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Tags: Architecture, award, building, california, Design, glen park, house, Jim Zack, Lise De Vito, San Francisco
In a contest Maserati held with Architectural Digest, the home of the trident went looking for the best homes for those cars — not the actual houses, but the garages that house their creations. Entries came in two categories, Existing and Concept, and were judged on “noted architectural element, uniqueness and individuality.”
The winning existing garage [...]
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Tags: advertising, architectural digest, Architecture, Art, contest, Design, garage, garagmahal, lifestyle, marketing, Maserati
In a perfect world we’d all be getting back to our zero energy, prefabricated homes by foot, bike or public transport, but on a planet where cars won’t be disappearing anytime soon, it’s nice to know that some car companies are trying to reduce their carbon footprint when producing new vehicles. In 2003 BMW set [...]
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Tags: Architecture, bmw, BMW welt, energy-efficient, production, welt
Architects: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Project year: 2004-2005
Photographs: Natoma Architects
This project, on a twenty-five-by-eighty-foot lot next to 1022 Natoma Street, continues the investigation of San Francisco infill buildings. At the street level are parking and entrance lobby; above are four stacked units. One thickened party wall provides vertical access and a [...]
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Tags: Architecture, california, condo, Design, HOME, San Francisco, USA
Futuristic Pyramid House
This house might look like it’s straight out of the future, but it’s actually based on the oldest house design in Japan: the pit dwelling.
Pit dwellings were built by placing a steep thatched roof over a hole dug in the ground. That’s just what architect Makoto Tanijiri did for a family in Saljo, Japan.
As you [...]
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Tags: Architecture, HOME, house, japan, Pyramid
Three stories tall standing aside the Swarovski swan on gray, this lake of mirrors makes up the majority of the temporary Baselworld face of the luxury lead crystal glass company. Take a look at the video included in this post for mirrors in action.
“Lake of Shimmer” – Swarovski stand at Baselworld [...]
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Tags: concept, crystal, Design, glass, mirrors, swarovski, tokujin yoshioka
Beautiful Ceiling
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This newly-released image shows the sun rising over Spaceport America. It hasn’t been built yet, but construction starts this Friday. It will be the beginning of the real future, the stuff dreams are made of.
Spaceport America will be the first spaceport in history, and it will host commercial operations by private space travel companies, like [...]
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Tags: GALLERY, mothership, SPACE, spaceport america, Spaceship two, Virgin, Virgin Galactic
Capsule office
Ever wonder what kind of office a cutting-edge architect actually works in? If you’re employed at the Selgas Cano architectural firm near Madrid, it looks something like this. One edge of this long, tubular office is made entirely of glass, simultaneously helping workers feel closer to nature and a bit like they’re slaving away [...]
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Tags: Architecture, Capsule office, Design, Iwan Baan, Office, Selgas Cano
To combat the Sahara Desert’s ongoing growth, student Magnus Larsson has proposed a 6,000km wall that will be—wait for it—constructed by letting a bacterium have its way with the sand, forming sandstone.
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Tags: Architecture, Bacteria, Desertification, Magnus larsson, proposals, Sahara desert wall
By Singapore-based Design Act, “My Dream, Our Vision” is constructed from 3866 cubes of varying opacity, and serves as a physical manifestation of the intangible: digital information floating above the green landscape. Embodying “xin” (or “new”), visitors are beckoned inside by music to post their dreams of tomorrow, to incite innovation.
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Tags: Architecture, BUILDINGS, CONCEPTS, Design, Digital, digital cloud skyscraper, Singapore
“Architecture student Viktor Ramos has a brilliant idea that may be the key to the Israel-Palestinian Gordian Knot: Instead of building grim walls or tunnels, create livable bridges so two states can live together, superposed. Can architecture make Israel and Palestine coexist peacefully together?”
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Tags: Architecture, bridges, Future
The building that MAD itself designed barely has so few enclosures, they must be planning to install bathrooms in the elevators. You can see it in the foreground above, and in the gallery below, along with three equally transparent concepts from BIG (which looks like a Wii), Emergent (which looks like it was designed by [...]
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Tags: Architecture, BUILDINGS, CONCEPTS, Design, EMERGENT
What do you do with 4,000 decommissioned oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico? Instead of blowing them up
—costing millions and killing aquatic life—Morris Architects’ Hotelier At Sea project turns them into Dubai-esque luxury hotels.
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Tags: Architecture, HOTELIER, HOTELIER AT SEA, HOTELS, MORRIS ARCHITECTS, OIL RIG HOTELS, OIL RIG LUXURY
Porsche has culminated a 100 million euro ground-up renovation on its museum in Stuttgart, which will be officially dedicated later this week. The museum spans over 1,000 square meters of floor space, wrapped in stunning architecture and housing a collection of over 80 significant Porsches from the marque’s history, from the first 356 to the [...]
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Tags: expo, exposition, museum, Porsche, porsche collection, stuttgart
Architects: Shuhei Endo
Location: Shioya Tarumi-ku Kobe, Hyogo-Pref., Japan
Consultants: Masashi Ooji, Design-Structure Laboratory
Project year: 2005
Principal use: House
Site Area: 130 sqm
Constructed Area: 65.7 sqm
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Tags: Architecture, building, slim house
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