Building Blocks of Power
What if the very materials used to construct a building could be used to power that same building? That’s the idea behind Solar Squared – it’s…
Architecture
Eccentric Establishment!
Crazy on the outside, yet classy on the inside, the Solo House project by TNA Architects for Matarrana, Spain looks highly unstable, but one must never…
An Office That’s Like Living Inside a Smartphone!
Droids on Roids is a team of programmers, so making their new office seem familiar made perfect sense to the designers at Mode:lina. Navigating the space…
Toronto and the beanstalk!
“Our cities are a assembly of steel, concrete and glass,” says Penda partner Chris Precht. “If you walk through the city and suddenly see a tower…
The house that wears a sweater!
It looks like the Swahili Gem Tudor apartments in Mombasa have been crochet-bombed! The architects decided to clad the building’s outside with a ‘moucharabiah’ inspired skin…
Home, spiky home
Hostile (read: edgy) looking on the outside, but designed to be equally homely on the inside, the Cactus towers currently being planned in Copenhagen will be…
When Pantone met Architecture!
Who wouldn’t want to attend a university as deliciously Wes Andersonian as this? Designed by french architecture group Périphériques and photographed by Ludwig Favre, the atrium…
Putting the Yum in Museum!
It would be much too literal to shape a chocolate museum like actual chocolate, wouldn’t it? So designer Ricardo Canton decided to capture the allure and…
