Lace & Tea :: Architectural Beauty: John Maniscalco Architecture, San Francisco Posted on April 12th, 2012 This gorgeous San Francisco home located in the unique Russian Hill Neighborhood has a exquisite modern interior and exterior. With semi-transparent glass walls, each room welcomes visitors to an airy and open living area. All images from M-architecutre’s website The Best Couch Ideas For Your Home This collection will help you to find the best couch for your home. Dubai Architecture- The Burj al Alam, or The World Tower. Upon completion it will rank as the world's highest hotel. It is expected to be finished by 2009. At 480 meters it will only be 28 meters shorter than the Taipei 101. The Trump International Hotel & Tower, which will be the centerpiece of one of the palm islands, The Palm Jumeirah. Dubailand. Dubailand will be built on 3 billion square feet (107 miles^2) at an estimated $20 billion price tag. Dubai Sports City. Currently, the Walt Disney World Resort is the #1 tourist destination in the world. The Dubai Marina is an entirely man made development that will contain over 200 highrise buildings when finished. The Dubai Mall will be the largest shopping mall in the world with over 9 million square feet of shopping and around 1000 stores. Ski Dubai, which is already open, is the largest indoor skiing facility in the world. The UAE Spaceport would be the first spaceport in the world if construction ever gets under way. Some other other crazy shit...
The Great Geek Manual » The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries I make no secret of the fact that I’m a hardcore bibliophile, but we’re a common enough lot these day. And the one sight that always makes me linger over a webpage is rows and rows of neatly organized books. So, in an effort to draw more like-minded read here to my little blog, I decided to round-up a gallery of photos of some of the most beautiful libraries I’ve ever seen photos of. Enjoy. If you enjoy this gallery, make sure you check out our other list of The United States’ Most Beautiful Libraries! Abbey Library St. The Astronomy Library of the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands Photo Credit: (Erik) Bristol Central Library Photo Credit: *Firefox The British Library reading room at the centre of the Great Court of the British Museum in London, England. Central Library of Vancouver in Vancouver, Canada Photo Credit: lightgazer Delft University Library in The Netherlands Photo Credit: rutger spoelstra José Vasconcelos Library in México City, Mexico Photo Credit: CliNKer
Home Dream Home - Part 4 Turn these ideas into reality and transform your house into a home. For more inspiration check our previous collection. visualsundae The Gravity of Illusion: Dyson's Mysterious Garden Fountain A simple water feature can take an ordinary deck and turn it into something magnificent. But a water feature fashioned by celebrated industrial designer James Dyson (of Dyson vacuums fame) is bound to be the most unforgettable water feature ever. This fountain, part of an overall garden design dubbed “The Wrong Garden,” was created by Dyson for the Royal Horticultural Society’s 2003 Chelsea Flower Show. Dyson’s inspiration for the highly unusual outdoor fountain was M.C. The secret is deceptively simple: the water is actually flowing inside and through the tanks and being propelled through small openings at the highest corner of the tanks.
These Examples of Surrealist Architecture Will Make You Feel Dizzy Contemporary art — many find it inaccessible. These structures are amazing, though. For some reason I completely love the idea of run-down provincial French houses tethered only by electrical cables. For the top image, I imagine the architect rolling his eyes as the penthouse owner for the 20th time demands an even bigger balcony, and the other tenants follow suit because it blocks out their sunlight.
See-through church, Limburg/Belgium by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh Project Details: Location: Limburg, Belgium Type: Cultural - Public Architects: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh - www.gijsvanvaerenbergh.com Photos: Kristof Vrancken / Z33 – Mine Daelemans photo by Kristof Vrancken / Z33 The church is a part of the Z-OUT project of Z33, house for contemporary art based in Hasselt, Belgium. Z-OUT is an ambitious longterm art in public space project that will be realised on different locations in the Flemish region of Limburg over the next five years. photo by Kristof Vrancken The church is 10 meters high and is made of 100 layers and 2000 columns of steel. The design of the church is based on the architecture of the multitude of churches in the region, but through the use of horizontal plates, the concept of the traditional church is transformed into a transparent object of art. photo by Mine Dalemans
“The Art of Clean Up”: El arte de ordenar por Ursus Werhli, vía bumbumbum “The Art of Clean Up” es un libro del artista alemán Ursus Werhli, aquí recopila distintos objetos y situaciones completamente organizadas. Explore more. Web pages, photos, and videos | StumbleUpon.com I've always wanted a treehouse when I was a child but living in a city made it a little difficult. Instead, we would built forts, tents or just crawl under the bed to play. It's weird right now but back then we really loved having those hideouts where nobody could find us. We could stay there for as long as we wanted. Telling horror stories and feeling like these were the safest places to be. But what happens if you're an adult and still dream of a treehouse? I did a little web research for treehouses all over the world and oh my what I found. Safe Arbor in Switzerland. Trillium. The enchanted forest. A modern, pitched roof treehouse. A treehouse morning. A dream treehouse. Those are just a few of many treehouses.
artlog: interior & architecture 36 Частный остров на Сейшелах via North Island на Сейшельских островах находится в частных владениях. Но владельцы острова не стали строить здесь виллу только для себя. В этих домиках любой желающий может отдохнуть, в полной изоляции от всего и всех. И только один из домиков владельцы оставили для себя. On Envy To be envious is to measure yourself against another’s talents, reputation or possessions. Jealousy is closely related to envy. Here not only do you want these for yourself, but you also want to take them away from the other person. Envy and jealousy, therefore, are forms of power, ineffectual and harmful as they are, because you want to deprive others of what they have. Envy arises from feelings of inadequacy, a sense of hollowness and unworthiness. Envy is a hunger that cannot be filled. The truth is that we can never be deprived, no matter what others have. Here is a story from the Jewish tradition: A storyteller said, “Once there was a bird that lived on the far side of the mountain, a beautiful bird of many colors. “The bird was happy whenever he looked at its own feathers. Here the storyteller stopped her story. “That’s it?” “No.” “Then she said to me, ‘You should advise the bird to raise its eyes and look at its beautiful feathers.