Posts tagged architecture

Shchusev State Museum of Architecture of Moscow Ads by Saatchi & Saatchi

Manhattan Mountain Project by Ju-Hyun Kim

The author proposes to construct the mountains on the roofs of supermarkets. This artificial landscape can be used in winter for skiing and snowboarding, and in summer for hiking.

“House 2000 m2”, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine by Yakusha Design

Ice Hotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, by PinPin

Phoenix Observation Tower by BIG

Longaberger Company’s Basket Building in Newark, Ohio

The seven-story home office for the handcrafted baskets manufacturer doubles as an enormous replica of a woven basket neatly situated in a park-like environment, making its resemblance to a picnic basket fit for a giant uncanny.

Swarovski Crystal Worlds Dome, Austria

Made of 595 Mirrors.

Upcycling Pavilion, Expo CIHAC, by BNKR Arquitectura & Esteban Suarez Design Team

Expo CIHAC is the biggest annual architecture and construction exhibition in Latin America. Like many other exhibitions, it creates large-scale contamination due to the excess waste it generates. Almost all the pavilions of the different brands and products related to the architecture and construction industry, end up in the trash. Deeply concerned by this, the team approached the exhibition principals with the proposal of creating a low cost – zero waste sustainable pavilion that could set an example for future exhibitions. Inspired by the upcycling movement that focuses on converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value, the team conceived a pavilion made up exclusively of soda crates piled on top of each other which were, after the show, returned to the soft drink manufacturer for its initial purpose: carrying soda pops.

Skidome Denmark design and architecture proposal by CEBRA

Shaped like a six-armed snow flake, CEBRA recently unveiled a proposal to build the world’s largest ski-dome. Skidome Denmark will have six indoor and two outdoor slopes on its three centrally connected arches, with three kilometers (1.9 miles) of slopes arching over a river in the Danish city of Randers. Unlike most indoor ski slopes which tend lack windows, Skidome Denmark will have a perforated facade to give skiers a view over the surrounding river and meadows. Every piste has its own chair lift and the three arches are conjoint by an elevator for transporting skiers between the different levels.