For 3 years this will be the technology showroom CR Land’s residential projects in Beijing. The concept was to build something useful that could be later destroyed and recycled without actually causing any major harm to the environment and surrounding area. When it comes to “green” design I love it when it’s expressed this way, shown with real, “green” and use of the environment, telling me it’s made from recycled this or that, materials from all natural this, or fibers from that, that’s all cool but in the end, I like my green to represent green. I’ll take me a green building with grass on it any day, cutting the grass might be a bitch though. More of the project created by Vector Architects over at ArchDaily.
You don’t usually associate beer and places of worship together but in this case they make up one another. Thai Monks from the Sisaket province have used over a million empty beer bottles to build their temple. The Monks used the bottles to make the Buddhist Temple as a way to help clean up local pollution. So now you don’t have to feel so bad about drinking in the morning and early afternoon just tell people you’re either helping with pollution or building a temple.
Wonder what the Herzog & de Meuron building will look like on 56 Leonard Street, New York wonder no more. Here is the promo video of what’s to come, luxury living will get a little bit cooler after this is completed and built.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
