The Tastemakers Society

Unearthing a city sounds like something from a movie, like finding them bringing up the city of Atlantis from the depths of the sea. Well, Bulgaria must have seen one too many movies because they decided to give it an actual go. Found at the bottom of a lake in 1948, the so called Forgotten City, now known as the city of Seuthopolis may be given new life. The concept/idea/plan/dream/hope it fucking works is that local authorities and Tilev Architects want to make a dike that’s 460 yards around and 20 yards deep (below the water), now I have no clue what a “dike” is but from what it sounds like and the concept pics it would be like an inverted island, with the city being at the bottom of the water instead of sitting on top.

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If you live in Prague, Czech Republic you probably visit The Park all the time, and I’m not talking about your kids park where the little brats (I mean darlings) run around like chickens with their heads cut off (I mean play) and slide down the slides, no not that Park. The Park is a large office complex consisting of 12 buildings and an amazing/playful courtyard designed by Cigler Marani Architects.

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Filip Dujardin is a Belgian photographer who takes parts of other buildings and creates his own images of building. In essence he’s a fake building maker and I guess that’s a pretty good thing to be being buildings are normally boring for the most part, it takes forever and a day to actually get a design approved then built and if you live in the US there’s something called the recession that’s just fucking everything up. So making fake buildings with images is a pretty cool concept for me, especially if make believe anything can help me not think about that R word. The fake buildings.

What is the best building in the world or even more so which buildings would even be put into the standings for that race to be judged. I’m not sure where you’d even begin to decide on how to approach this task but CNN took a stab at it, and they got come candidates for the best building in the world.

When I was a kid I always wanted a tree house, I never got one and still dream about how fun it would have been to throw eggs at people from it or possibly fall out of it and maybe breaking my leg and missing school for a few days. But since I can’t travel back in time I can only settle for possible adult variations of tree house fun, and the Naha Harbor diner in Gajamaru, Japan is one of those, which is a restaurant placed on top of a tree. This would be a good adult substitute for my childhood tree house dreams, I could get dinner, throw my croutons as passer byers and maybe slip down the spiral staircase, win a lawsuit and become a yen-inaire.

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You know how on vacations people use the “amazing view” angle to try and suck you in or to get you to buy that penthouse for a zillion dollars in Manhattan. Well, visit Austria and you’ll get a view actually worth paying for. Located in Tyrol, Austria 3,000 meters above sea level is the Stubai Glacier and the platform built by Astearchitecture. The view from the platform can be described in many ways, amazing, beautiful, breath taking, scary ass shit, hyperventilating, way too fucking high, cardiac arrest causing, and blissful. So hit the homeland of California’s Governor and visit the place were your ears will pop and your heart will stop (next career move, rapper).   

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Soon to be coming off the coast of Egypt will be the first ever underwater museum being built by architect Jacques Rougerie. Ancient ruins were found off that coast near the library of Alexandria some years ago but the process of moving the artifacts may have damaged them too much that they left them underwater to keep them intact. Now the proposed plan is to build a museum around them, half being above water and another part of the museum set around the ruins underwater. The ruins have statues, sphinxes, and roman and greek ship wrecks.

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Belgian Artist Arne Quinze does everything from paintings to sculptural work that would marvel even the best of the creative’s roaming the planet. Arne seems to merge so many aspects into his work, painting, design, architecture, wide array of material use, you only attach the word artist to Arne because their isn’t a word yet that describes all he does. Just looking through Arne Quinze’s website will show you just how many various projects he’s been involved in, and how he’s able to jump from this field to the next seamlessly without a hiccup. Arne clearly doesn’t live by the rules of having limits or boundaries which is why his work explores elements in multiple ways. Enough of me talking just look for yourself.

I know TTSmag isn’t no Travel+Leisure but on occasion TTS gives some good vacation destination ideas like this one. Over in Siwa, Egypt there’s an eco-resort, Adrere Amellal, that looks like a giant (dream come to life) sandcastle. The houses are made out of kershef which is a mix of rock salt and mud that’s able to keep temperatures down. The doors and windows are built to catch the desert breeze, while the roof is lined in palm leaves and the pools are roman springs. If you happen to visit this place be sure to send TTS a souvenir.

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Designed by NY based architects Arakawa + Gins the “reversible destiny lofts” located in Japan are multi colored and are a completely different living experience. The lofts were built with the young in mind, it’s space has been imagined in every different/backwards way possible uneven floors, power outlets hanging from the ceiling, windows that double as escape hatches, it’s the type of place you live if you just want to be out of the box at all times. You can see a video of inside the loft after the jump.

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There’s a movie called Little Manhattan I like and now’s there’s another little Manhattan I like, well more like miniature. Artist Michael Chesko has created a miniature replica of midtown Manhattan using balsa, wood, xacto blades, and fingernail files. To create the miniature midtown manhattan (say that 3 times fast) Chesko used blueprints, photographs, digital reproductions, and satellite images. It took Chesko 2000 hours to complete the replica and he even used images from 2000 so he could add in the world trade centers to the replicated model.

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I’m not one of those death fanatics, I don’t sit around thinking about death and I definitely don’t think about mine. But death is one of life’s certainties another being a Michael Jackson fan, and when you reach a certain age you do have to start thinking or planning out some details of your death, mainly were you will be buried. And the Brion-Vega family of Italy has gone above and beyond in planning for their last days of rest, they had architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) design their family cemetery, and this is definitely a place you wouldn’t mind being buried in. Wallpaper* recently did a fashion shoot there entitled “Death in Venteo”, the place is so beautiful that you could picnic at this cemetery (if you’re the picnic type), this is a huge step up then those super crowded cemetaries.