This architectural sculpture from Russian artist Nikolay Polissky combines two forsaken elements—an abandoned warehouse and a mass of wood cut-offs from previous projects—into one striking piece. Titled the SELPO Pavilion, the sculpture is meant to be interacted with, explored, and climbed on. And it looks even better at night.
Read MoreThe Sheats Goldstein Residence by John Lautner
Designed and built between 1961 and 1963 in Beverly Crest, Los Angeles, the building was conceived from the inside out and built into the hillside; a cave-like dwelling that opens to embrace nature and view. The house is an example of American Organic Architecture that derives its form as an extension of the natural environment and of original owner.
Read MoreSESC Pompéia by Lina Bo Bardi
It can be said that the way to understand the architectural program in SESC Pompéia has to do with a way to be in town and occupying public spaces or collective, almost an exercise in "micro-urbanism". The project is planned as aggregation; the context is understood as debris on which it intervenes.
In this project Lina Bo Bardi decided to keep most of the complex as it was to preserve the characteristics of the place. In order to maintain existing spatial qualities on the site, the architect focused placing objects freely within the space.
Read MoreLas Palmitas Mural by German Crew
Germen Crew just completed what could be one of the world's largest murals in a small Mexican pueblo. The colorful mural was Commissioned by the Las Palmitas, Pachuca District, long known for its role as the "Drug Capital of Mexico." A massive public art project comprising 209 homes and over 215,000 square feet, the Macro Mural reveals a hybrid style that leans heavily on the group's graffiti background.
Read MoreBeer Bottle Office by Li Rongjun
Li Rongjun, an aspiring architect from China, has built himself a spectacular office. In a bid to showcase his mad construction skills, he’s used 8,500 beer bottles to make the entire upper floor of a two-storey building!
Read MoreGetaway by Jon Staff and Peter Davis
Getaway strives to give urban dwellers a chance to escape the big city frenzy via a well-designed tiny house set on rural land, where they can "test drive" the micro living experience, or at the very least, disconnect, recharge, and start that book they've been meaning to read.
Read MoreOdin Bar + Café by Phaedrus Studio
Odin Bar and Café is located in downtown Toronto’s east end on King Street East, where the recently reclaimed industrial lands of the City’s new Canary District meet older main streets Odin and its design embrace the neighborhood's newly refined industrial aesthetic, along with the changing culture of how people eat, drink, work and socialize; and, the playful complexity that comes with the day to night transformation.
Read MoreThe Beach by Snarkitecture
From now through September 7, 2015, the national building museum in Washington D.C. hosts a 10,000 square foot ball pit filled by nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls. ‘the beach’ is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based studio Snarkitecture, who sees the project as ‘an exciting opportunity to create an architectural installation that reimagines the qualities and possibilities of material, encourages exploration and interaction with one’s surroundings, and offers an unexpected and memorable landscape for visitors to relax and socialize within.’
Read MoreSunflower House by Cadaval & Solá-Morales
The Sunflower house sits on the border of the water of the Mediterranean sea and the hard rock of the Costa Brava. The house wants to identify each of the particularities of the landscape; with its geometry, the house frames a multiplicity of different and specific views, and builds up content spaces that inhabit great big framed views.
Read MoreEvolutionary Tree by Charles Jencks
Every architect can find common ground in Charles Jencks’s “Evolutionary Tree to the Year 2000.” Originally published in Jencks’s 1971 book Architecture 2000, the soft, blobby diagram has become a comfortable space of mediation where fundamentally conflicting architectural traditions may happily coexist encased in pulsating attractor basins.
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