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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A room with a view!
All of us love homes with views. You crack open a window to be kissed by the sun, and a bit of a summer breeze….
This hotel room served in the Royal Navy
I learnt two new things today. The first was the word “glamping” which is a portmanteau of glamour and camping, associated with the world of…
The idyllic ‘cabin in the woods’
A perfect fit amidst Poland’s green terrain is this house, commissioned for a single family, designed by SK Architekci and visualized by Ideal Arch Visuals….
House with the roller-coaster roof
The Single Family House designed by Andrii Ortynskyi has an interesting detail that immediately makes it stand out. While most houses have a bilateral symmetry…