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There’s always multiple sides to every story, and while the Soviet Union has a serious rep for rigidity, as the We Heart blog points out, that’s hardly true of the architecture that emerged during its reign. Here, judge for yourself.
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If you’ve ever wanted to spend the winter like a penguin, now’s your chance. Levi’s igloos in Finland feature heated glass ceilings that keep you cozy as you gaze at the winter sky above you. And you can follow the changing sky while laying in the motorized rotating bed in the center of the igloo.
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Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort, which opens in Jan 2013, has an unusual design that’s seen it being compared — rather unkindly — to a toilet seat. Which puts it in similar company with another building in Suzhou, which has been dubbed a pair of underpants. People can be mean.
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Three Squared, a real estate development company, is planning America’s first 20-unit, 26,000 square feet, multi-family condo constructed from retired shipping containers in Rosa Parks, Detroit.
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I can’t believe how far humans have come since their Nethanderal ancestors. Once upon a time, we used to just dwell in caves. Now we’ve making waves in architecture in ways we’ve never thought possible. But of course, along comes a guy like Spanish photographer Victor Enrich, who manipulates photography to create even more awesome architectural forms. The one with the unzipping building is just glorious — we’d like to see YKK in there.
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It’s official, a James Bond villain’s actual lair has just been discovered. Well, not exactly, but it’s close enough. This incredible cavernous hideout is actually a data center located just south of Stockholm, Sweden. The data center was once an old nuclear bunker 100 feet below the ground, and it was even home to WikiLeaks for a short time. Now, this amazing space can even be rented out for art shows, raves, and other events.
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Built in 2009 and designed by artist Daniel Tobin with Matthew Tobin and Jamie Perrow, the Kaust Beacon is one of the standout architectural structures for Kaust (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) in Saudi Arabia. The 60-metre concrete tower stands at the entry of the harbour and is made of amorphous hexagonal sections that steep out of the Red Sea.
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When you’ve got a piece of land that measures 11 meters by 200 meters, you really don’t have much space unless you think like Slovenian design firm OFIS. In a seemingly small space, OFIS have managed to fit service areas, public function rooms, and 192 studio apartments. So what? People build high rise buildings everyday. [...]
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Even architects need a sanctuary to call their own sometimes. Smashit is essentially where architects go to ‘freely express their inner frustration’. Here’s where you can find (and upload your own) videos of architects smashing their architectural models into smithereens. Hmm. It must be therapeutic for the architects. The rest of us, we can just [...]
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French artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Pejus have taken a redundant building in the grounds of their arts centre and turned it into a ghost-like architectural structure. Looks like the perfect venue for next year’s Halloween bash.
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The year was 1977, and Oberto Airaudi (who prefers the name ‘Falco’) and a small band of merry men began digging in the valley of Valchiusella, in northern Italy. The plan was to build a series of nine ornate temples, over five levels and 100 feet below the surface, later dubbed the Temples of Damanhur. The temple designs came from visions Falco (who, by the way, didn’t record Rock Me Amadeus) had experienced from a young age of a past life, a world of beauty in an advanced civilisation. Hmmm, I wonder what kind of mushrooms grow on the foothills of the Alps?
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Coming in at just under 12 square meters, this student living space may be the smallest house in Sweden. Located in Lund, the compact cottage boasts all the essentials” a sleeping loft, a kitchenette with a table, a bathroom and an under bed study. Despite the potential for cabin fever, the space is actually hotly contested amongst students. But if you’re going to invite friends over for dinner, three’s definitely a party. So choose wisely.
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Remember the floating cinema? Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s Ole Scheeren, the architect behind it, has also designed a number of other intriguing architectural structures.
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Frank Gehry’s over-scaled cornice surprised the conservative town of Boston when he renovated the Tower Records building with Schwartz/Silver back in 1989. His penthouses in New York now take their sculptural cues from the experience of exaggerated bay windows where a person can step beyond the facade of a building. What is interesting is the promotional video for the new penthouses uses tilt shift views which imply that your view 870 feet up from the tallest residential building in the U.S. will make New York seem like your personal playset.
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Only in the Indian village of Abhaneri can you find a well like this: the 1,200-year-old Chand Baori step well. Built in the 9th century, the 13-storey, 100-feet deep structure is entirely surrounded by maze-like steps — all 3,500 of these — for easy access to the water. It looks pretty mindblowing.
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