Dutch Design in Battery Park
Located in the heart of Manhattan’s waterfront Battery Park sits the recently completed New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion, a $2.3 million gift from the Kingdom…
Architecture
I’d Kill for this Office
Industrial/product design consultants No Picnic have outdone themselves with their new office/studio in downtown Stockholm. Enjoying the highest level of historical protection, the 19th century…
When Architecture Takes a Backseat to Nature
-and it works. With it’s super minimal (even dark) interior, the Juvet hotel uses modern design elements to bring focus to the natural beauty of…
Imaginative Architecture in Natural Seclusion
This swanky villa has got it goin’ on. Located in Phuket, Thailand, Villa Amanzi combines the best of contemporary design and ultra modern architecture to…
Fascinating Kinetic Architecture
This is one of the most interesting building concepts I’ve seen in a while. The Kinetower’s exterior window elements respond to sunlight or user control…
American Classics Reimagined
In their vernacular forms the country cabin and beach house are most often envisioned as rough and woody as well as shingled and white-washed, respectively….
Providing the Third Basic Need
Shelter is one of the three basic necessities — this is why this project exists, and this is why if it doesn’t work, something eventually…
Providing of Garden Access
Who loves alterations? We love alterations. Especially when they turn a Victorian house in a conservative area with access to the backyard garden only through…
Emergency Exits of Splendor
Many gigantic cities in this modern wonderful world of ours have underground transit. Under the ground you’ll find tunnels with trains galore, traveling all around…
Architectural Finger Bands
This is a bit of jewelry from the school of thought that revolves away from the stacked minds inside the stuck in the mud world…
One Fantastical Technology Campus
Those architecture masters over at UNStudio have their work cut out for them, and they’ve got the knives to do it. Today their project is…
For the Dank of the Sea
This rather dank looking project is a masterpiece of our watery other-world of the ocean, called “House on the Beach” by designer Hugon Kowalski. This…