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7 Abandoned Architectural Wonders of Modern Asia | WebUrbanist
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 . In the rogue ungoverned Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong things were so tightly packed that trash blocked off parts of buildings and many occupied apartments literally never saw the light of day, almost as if the place were naturally becoming overgrown .
Project Indigo (working title): Design of a vertical seaside metropolis In december 2007 I sketched around a single theme for a while as a personal side project. I tried to envision what a huge -vertical- seaside city would look like in a world where dry land is very precious. This city would be situated on a huge pillar in a 'cavity' in the sea; possibly an inactive volcano crater of some sorts. I assumed a level of technology of western European countries around the seventeenth century. Naturally I had to take some huge liberties with the actual mechanical possibilities of these constraints to make a city in a hole in the sea work, not to mention a vertical city.
Portfolio of Jesse van Dijk - Project Indigo
Designer Luigi Colani has created a space-saving house with a six square meter cylinder inside that contains a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.
Hanse Colani Rotor House
World's Tallest Buildings - SkyscraperPage.com
These are the tallest skyscrapers in the world as of April 2012 Buildings are ordered by official height. This ordering method deals only with a building's roof height or spire height, whichever is greater, and doesn't take antenna heights into consideration. This method makes the Petronas Towers appear taller than the Sears Tower.
Green Project Database Browse case studies from GreenSource , our sister publication dedicated to sustainable building, by location, LEED score, building type, and many more criteria.
Architecture Design for Architects | Architectural Record
Borders Bookstore in the Time Warner Center, New York City, overlooking the Columbus Circle and the Columbus statue . Photo by sergei.y Flickr.com
Most Interesting Bookstores of the World
50 Strange Buildings of the World (Part II) | Village Of Joy
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 ( http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange.. ) 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. Image credits: RA Studija Despite what you might think this amazing building is not a temporal installation.
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. A volcanic site, 4.000 mm of rain every year, strong winds from the north and east, views towards the lake (east) and the forest (west), considerations of the difficulty of bringing materials to this remote place, erasure of any a priori architectural language (be it old or contemporary) were the ingredients of this unknown dish, that should have the capacity to sound familiar once developed. 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.
Pirihueico House / Alejandro Aravena | ArchDaily
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.
Maison de la lumiere by Damilano Studio | Home Design Find
No, I’m not talking about gas stations here. A young couple in Mexico grew tired of living in a conventional home, and wanted to move into something more “natural”. They commissioned Senosiain Arquitectos to build them their new home, and the end result was a gigantic Nautilus.
Moving into your own Shell | Pretty Cool Things
Maison de la Lumiere by Duilio Damilano » CONTEMPORIST
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.ArchitectureWeek spoke with AIA Chief Executive Officer Robert Ivy as the Institute was in final preparations to host the AIA 2012 National Convention in Washington, D.C. Kevin Matthews: Coming from a magazine perspective, and now that you're here (at the AIA), how has your perspective on architecture magazines changed — from being steeped in that world for quite a while, to now being next to it? Robert Ivy: Well, a couple of things have not changed. And those are that I think we still need them now as much as we ever did, in whatever form or format they take. I think we need the rigor and the critical attitude that they bring, and also the information that they deploy. They allow us an insight into the world of architecture in a way that a blog never can/will, to the extent that they allow, I would say, what is almost the luxury of in-depth journalism where we're able to afford it.
ArchitectureWeek - No. 518 - 2011.0518
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.
Lilypad, a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city | Yatzer™
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. 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’. The great architectural commentator, Pevsner says: “Whoever designed the choir at St Denis, one can safely say, invented the Gothic style…the pointed arch, the flying buttress, and the rib-vault….What was decisively new….was the combination of these motifs for a new aesthetic purpose.
architectural photography » The White Hot Act of Gothic
Alila Villas Uluwatu by WOHA » CONTEMPORIST
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 . 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.”Landscape
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