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If this is the future of architecture, the future should be here in, oh, about 18 months. That’s how long the world’s first 3D printed building — Janjaap Ruijssenaars’ Landscape House where floors climb, flip and loop to become ceilings in a mobius strip — is estimated to be completed. The gigantic D-Shape printer will [...]
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Designed by Singapore’s architectural darlings WOHA, the Parkroyal on Pickering hotel in Singapore packs a maddening 15,000 square metres of gardens, waterfalls and vertical green walls into its premises. Seems legit, then, that it is hailed as a ‘hotel in a garden’. The endless cascading tiers are inspired by Bali’s rice terraces, while, within the hotel’s eco-luxe confines, everything adds up to form a rather impressive sum of the total: marble walls that appear to flow like water, plucky birdcage-shaped cabanas that overlook the infinity pool and playful shadows cast by trees silhouetted against mood lights at night.
Let’s not forget the green measures in place too — that includes harvesting rain, harnessing solar power and making good use of sensors to conserve both energy and water.
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Police stations aren’t really the most inviting of places, And between the darkened, dorky foyers, the drab exteriors and the deathly sense of isolation, it’s easy to see why. Bayside Police Station breaks all those rules. Located in the Victorian suburb of Sandringham, the station is an open and inviting building. where community integration and transparency are at the pinnacle of importance. From the grand entrance, to the natural materials and light, airy vibes, Bayside Police Station is definitely a leader when it comes to architectural wins for police stations.
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RMIT University’s newest study hub, the Swanston Academic Building, was completed in 2012 by Melbourne-based architectural firm, Lyons. The building is situated around a main center of intertwined escalators and stairs, which provide natural ventilation to the large, open student spaces known as “portals”. These “portals” act as a physical gateway to both virtual and real life information and knowledge. With over 80 spaces, including large lecture theatres, the Swanston Academic Building is a force to be reckoned with; an amazing stack of colour and movement that is sure to create wonder for many years to come.
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Developed in the 1970s, the massive four-storey Igloo City Hotel in Alaska has changed owners several times. The surreal piece of architecture remains to be fully constructed to this day, but we suspect no one from Cantwell, the nearest town 20 miles away, is complaining.
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Architect Ma Yansong has designed a whole new city in China that towers into the sky like a beautiful mountain range, symbolizing nature as an abstraction of reality. With a built-in waterfall and connecting bridges, the towers, dubbed Shan-Shui City (‘the city of mountains and water’), are a place for people to work, socialize and live.
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Here’s how to reinvent container blocks: turn it on its side and make it a three-storey house. This ingenious reimagining, Homebox, is by University of Hanover professor Han Slawik who made a wooden version with the same dimensions to run on the same transport system of shipping containers.
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In Canada’s Bruce Peninsula forest, Farrow Partnership studio designed a five-star eco-friendly resort called E’terra Samara. These twelve beautiful treehouse villas are nestled harmoniously amidst the natural landscape. The dynamic shape of the treehouses wrap around the trees in a complementary way.
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Bojan Kanlić, Adnan Alagić and Amila Hrustić had to wait for five years until the bridge they designed for a competition while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo was built. Festina Lente, or for those who don’t speak Latin, ‘Make haste, slowly’, is the name of this extraordinary construction that spans 38 meters over the Miljacka river. The idea of this steel bridge with an aluminium trim and glass fence is to create a symbolic gate and a balance between the left and the right side. One could say that the three Bosnian product designers did this very, very well.
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Haha, this is great. A kiwi student who visited his girlfriend in Canada during winter break ended up building an igloo out of 500 or so coloured water bricks in her family’s backyard, because her mum wanted one. It took many empty milk cartons, over 150 hours and tenacity against the subzero temperature. Well, at [...]
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Insane, that’s what this is. Thanks to the sharp-eyed folks of My Modern Met, we’ve just discovered the Push-Button House by architect Adam Kalkin. Basically the walls of a shipping crate completely flip open via hydraulic action into a pretty impressive living space. The only bummer is that it’s not an actual house but an installation. Then again, who says we can’t daydream? Already, Kalkin is working on a follow-up to the Push-Button — dubbed Push-Button House 2 — which will be expanded to a five-room room for even more room for greatness.
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We’ve seen many glasshouses, but never a double-walled glasshouse like this one that architect Alberto Campo Baeza designed for an office block in Zamora, Spain. It gives the building an illusory feel, like it’s not quite there and could be a mirage. Seems like a nice place to disappear into.
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Built in 1924, this beautiful Dominican Cathedral located in Maastricht, Holland, is taking on a new life in the form of a modern bookstore. Architectural firm Merkx + Girod are behind the conversion project known as Selexyz Dominicanen Maastricht, which was a massive task with the space measuring some 1,200 sq. metres. Due to the Cathedral having high ceilings, the bookshelves were built up into multistory units to allow for maximum space utilization. Seems like a pretty inspiring place to purchase a book.
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Somewhere between the city and mountains of Gwangju, South Korea, IROJE KHM architects designed the beautiful Hye Ro Hun house. This exquisite example of contemporary architecture contains two distinct living spaces each with their own amenities. One bedroom even includes a bamboo garden. The sculpture-like design of this house gives it its unique style and personality.
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Atlanta-based artist Alex Brewer, or Hense, recently took some latex paint to a church in Washington DC on a crane, layering every monochromic inch of the exterior with colour, colour and more colour than you can squeeze from a rainbow storm. There’s polka dots, there are random clouds, there are random graffiti-like splotches. Short of churches with stained glass windows, we’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s wonderful stuff.
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