archi-tecture
Oki Sato
Photography: Daici Ano
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Eleni Gigantes, Hotel Xenia, Cephalonia, Greece
Melbourne ‘Riverside Corolla’ - a permanent public art project by Melbourne-based artist John Meade
This palace was hand built by postman Ferdinand Cheval. It took him 33 years to build and he calls it Palais ideal. It is a great reminder that a person can do anything with sufficient passion, effort, and time.
He began working on it in 1867 when he was 13 years old after tripping over a bazaar shaped stone and marveling at it. It was completed in the 1970’s. The palace is more than 30 feet (10 meters) high and 85 feet (26 meters) long.
Mad Architects has sent us images of a new project, urban forest, located in chongqing, china.
drawing on the mountainous landscape of the country, the commercial high-rise building,
is made up of curved, abstracted shaped floors which have been layered slightly off-center
from one another. connected by a core cylindrical structure, each level’s interior is
protected by full length glass windows with a see-through, wrap around balcony.
this provides transparency throughout the building, and makes the floors almost seem as if
they are floating on top of one another. the overall design brings together nature and the
urban metropolis, with the incorporation of green space and large expansive views of the city.
McCormick Tribune Campus Center at Illinois Institute of Technology by Rem Koolhaas: 3201 South State Street, Chicago, IL.
The “Evolver” by ALICE Studio (via PICDIT)
While walking through the Evolver you’ll make a 720° turn taking in the breathtaking surroundings of Zermatt.
House on the Flight of Birds is a residence designed by Bernardo Rodrigues located on the north side of S. Michael Island in the Azores, Portugal.
