7 Abandoned Architectural Wonders of Modern Asia. 7 Abandoned Cities & Architectural Wonders of Modern Asia Article by Urbanist, filed under 7 Wonders Series in the Travel category. (Thanks in part to contributions by urban explorer and photographer Jon Dubar) Abandoned buildings, properties and places take on remarkably different aesthetic character and are treated differently from one culture to the next – particularly in Asian nations where beliefs about the cultural role of architecture or the whims of a dictator can vary greatly. From South Korea to North Korea, Cambodia to Thailand and Azerbaijan to Hong Kong here are seven amazing oriental and subcontinental abandonments from the Near East to the Far East, from skyscraper hotels and pod cities to shopping malls and amusement parks and everything in between – fascinating remnants of past buildings and ways to see how the other half lives. 24 Haunting Ghost Towns & Amazing Abandoned Cities – Click for More!
1) The Lawless Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong (Images via Jon Dunbar) Sistine Chapel. Hanse Colani Rotor House. Designer Luigi Colani has created a space-saving house with a six square meter cylinder inside that contains a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. + hanse-haus.de The cylinder rotates left or right bringing the room you want into view of the main living room. There's a separate toilet and a small hallway, and everything is controlled with a remote. View of the cylinder from the living room. The house was designed for young professionals who need minimal space while they focus on career. The bathroom. The bedroom. The kitchen. LoftCube | design werner aisslinger. World's Tallest Buildings. Architonic | architecture and design.
Peerutin. This is mmw studio 34 ! Architecture. Architecture Design for Architects. Most Interesting Bookstores of the World. View in architecture - m a l d i n i. 50 Strange Buildings of the World (Part II. This is the part II of the very popular list of 50 strange buildings which has been and is being copied (stolen) by many bloggers. If you wish to post it on your blog or website, feel free to use up to 20 buildings from this list and give a proper link to our website ( as the source article. I hope you enjoy this weird, odd, bizarre and incredible looking arcitechture! After looking at this magical collection of buildings, don’t forget to check Part III (and also Part I if you haven’t seen it yet) of this very popular architecture post series. 1. Office center “1000″ a.k.a.
Banknote (Kaunas, Lithuania) Image credits: RA Studija 2. Image credits: Jiths 3. Image credits: Wikipedia 4. Image credits: Dillerscofidio 5. Image credits: extranoise 6. Image credits: drewdomkus 7. Image credits: wikipedia Image credits: Santiago Vila, bjaglin, Santiago Vila 8. Image credits: fletchy182 9. Image credits: Alberto OG 10. Image credits: Phillip Ritz Image credits: Phillip Ritz. Pirihueico House / Alejandro Aravena. Alejandro Aravena was selected as one of the 20 essential young architects by Icon. Architects: Alejandro Aravena, Jorge Christie, Victor Oddó Location: Pirihueico lake, Chile Built Area: 350sqm Construction start: 2003 Completion: 2004 Materials: Stone, Wood, Glass Budget: 1.000 US$ / m2 Photos: Cristobal Palma We were asked to design a summer/winter house in a remote landscape in the most southern part of Chile.
More than a design, the client wanted, first of all, an equation that included every possible aspect that one could consider to be included; the design then had to be just the resolution of that equation. Being the weather condition very extreme, we started taking as less risk as possible; that’s why we began from the double sloped conventional roof. Slowly, we moved on, deforming it, looking for the views, avoiding the winds, using the frame windows as the arriving or starting points of the slopes. Stones and wood came from the clearence made in the site for the house.
Maison de la lumiere by Damilano Studio. Maison de la lumiere in Bologna, Italy was designed by the Damilano Studio. The architects wanted to break the mold of typical houses found in the area while creating a technologically advanced home. Visit their website for more information. Images by – Andrea Martiradonna. Moving into your own Shell | Pretty Cool Things. Stair Porn .org – Stairs and nothing but.
Maison de la Lumiere by Duilio Damilano. This house in Bologna, Italy was designed by Duilio Damilano. The house was born from two fundamental requirements: to avoid the stereotypes of the residential buildings in the region, and to realize a technologically advanced house. In order to answer the first demand, the modern house is separated from the surrounding context by walls of green bushes to allow for something new to emerge. The dialogue throughout the house is continuous, the swimming pool leads in to the house, the kitchen opens on to the living room, which is itself overlooked by the upper floor, generating a continuity of visual spaces. The living room is like a glass cube, which opens on to the swimming pool, while animated water cascades from above. The lightness of the construction is contrasted by the materials like a stone wall and wooden footbridge that invite you inside, while blades of steel and wood come off the house, creating a private external area.
Visit Duilio Damilano’s website – here. ArchitectureWeek - No. 518 - 2011.0518. Lilypad, a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city | Yatzer™ LILYPAD, A FLOATING ECOPOLIS FOR CLIMATICAL REFUGEES 2100, a large crowd of ecological refugees Further to the anthropogenic activity, the climate warms up and the ocean level increases. According to the principle of Archimedes and contrary to preconceived notions, the melting of the arctic ice-floe will not change the rising of the water exactly as an ice cube melting in a glass of water does not make its level rise. However, there are two huge ice reservoirs that are not on the water and whose melting will transfer their volume towards the oceans, leading to their rising. It deals with the ice caps of Antarctic and Greenland on the one hand, and the continental glaciers on the other hand. Another reason of the ocean rising, that does not have anything to do with the ice melting is the water dilatation under the effect of the temperature.
Aerial views of the maldivian atolls The main deck with three marinas, the submarine performing arts center and the gardens of phytopurification. Architectural photography » The White Hot Act of Gothic. Home » Popular, architecture, church architecture, gothic architecture, paris, styles: gothic, whitehot In terms of architectural history there are some buildings which are supercharged with energy. The Basilica of Saint Denis near Paris is one such building. Walk over to the Chancel and the Sanctuary and look up at the vaulting in the ambulatory and here you will see where the Gothic style was born. This building is the starting point of all things Gothic as we know it today. The Mother of all Gothic. OK, there have been others who have tried to claim the Gothic mantle of originator, but this is the first place where we see the pointed arch and vault with such lightness and clarity. It is here where the Gothic style reaches ‘critical mass’.
One particular visual joy is the tension between later Classical elements of the church shunted up against the original Gothic (see the top photo). Upshot of the vaulting in the Ambulatory – where it all started And it doesn’t stop there. Marie Antoinette. Alila Villas Uluwatu by WOHA. Opening in early 2009 are the Alila Villas Uluwatu in Bali, Indonesia. The 14.4 hectare development offers three-bedroom contemporary Balinese villas for sale, as well as a hotel for those on holiday in Bali. Alila Villas Uluwatu has been designed by the Singapore based WOHA. Visit the website of Alila Villas Uluwatu – here. Visit the WOHA website – here. With Alila Villas Uluwatu, the architects wanted to create more than the usual stereotypical ideas of Bali, creating a design that worked with the dry Balinese Savannah vegetation and gently sloping site, not against it.
The fact that the aim was to build a resort to Green Globe certification and with Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) standards did not hinder their architectural vision. Says Hassell, “From the onset, we knew we wanted to work with ESD in mind.” Notable design features include the flat roofs, laid with batu chandi (local volcanic rock). CONTEMPORIST. Gluckman Mayner Architects. 7 Clean Minimalist Homes. Minimalist style is based on the ideas that “less is more” meaning the less objects the better the space will look. Here is a spectacular list of 7 clean minimalist homes. Whether you like or dislike the minimalist style these homes should leave you calm and less stressful. 1. Casa C by architects Duilio Damilano 2. Garden and Sea by architect Takao Shiotsuka 3. Orr House by Swatt Architects 4. Woodside Bay Home by Hillery Priest Architecture 5. Openhouse by XTEN Architecture 6. Boso house by Kiyonobu Nakagame Architects 7. Somosaguas home by A-cero Architects.
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The Greenpix Zero Energy Wall was definitely one of the biggest hits. This modern structure goes against the classical designs of traditional cathedrals. The Academy features an aquarium, a natural history museum, a living rain forest, a world class research facility all under a 2.5 acre green roof. The pyramids have inspired the latest proposed, Dubai super structure. The art school blurs the line between landscape and building. Modern Home Decor. Labels: Architecture, Green, Trends. Studio aisslinger - Home. A Swirling Green Roof Tops Nanyang Art School in Singapore. If art school was in our future we might opt to study under, or on top of, the amazing green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, designed by CPG consultants.
This 5 story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The glass façade provides a high performance building envelope that reduces solar gain and heat load while allowing the benefits of natural views and daylight into creative spaces. The glass walls provide a visual exchange between indoors and out allowing students and teachers to experience the building, the surrounding landscape and the interior plaza as fluid spaces. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage. Finishes are intentionally raw to act as a backdrop for the art, media and design projects. Outdoor-bathtub. Herzog & de Meuron - CaixaForum Madrid. Herzog & de Meuron CaixaForum Madrid Madrid, Spain Photo: @ Christian Richters The CaixaForum i located in the heart of the city’s cultural district, facing the Paseo del Prado, in close proximity to the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen-Bornemisza museums.
Conceived as an urban magnet, not only for art-lovers but also for the building itself, the architects lifted the building off the ground, in apparent defiance of the laws of gravity, to draw visitors inside. The museum is housed in a converted 1899 power station, one of the city’s few remaining examples of historically significant industrial architecture, that was acquired by the Caixa Foundation in 2001. An insignificant gas station was demolished to create a small plaza between the Paseo del Prado and the new CaixaForum. A 24 meter high vertical garden, designed in collaboration with the botanist Patrick Blanc, takes up one wall of the square. </i>*}Jacques Herzog </i>*}Herzog & de Meuron Photo © Herzog & de Meuron Level + 0 Level - 1. Adaptable architecture gallery. A group of Brazilian architects have sent us these images of a conceptual, mobile gallery, designed to travel along the river Thames in London.
The project was developed for a competition organised by architectural agency Arquitectum, called London 2008, by a team of architects made up of Victor Paixao, Miguel Felipe Muralha, Paula Sertorio, Thiago Florez, Andre Mack and Bruno Castro. The brief was to design a mobile architecture gallery which could travel along the river and pick up visitors at several locations. The project was awarded an honorable mention by a panel of judges chosen by the Architectural Association. See the other winning concepts on the Arquitectum website. Watch a video about the project here. The text below is from the designers: Two distinct elements result in an area that symbolizes the dynamics of the city and expresses the unpredictability of human occupation.
The second element determines the limits of the gallery and allows the maximum use of internal space. Googie Architecture Online. Project. :: Publications | CSLA :: Modern Glass Home in Krakow, Poland comes with a tree and a tower! Arqa.com | Comunidad abierta de arquitectura, construcción y diseño.
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