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How Architects Design Temporary Buildings For the Olympics
Every time the Olympics invades a city, its topography is transformed by an influx of impressive new buildings erected for the event. In the case of London, most will eventually be torn down. It’s an incredible feat of design and engineering to build structures that can be both quickly built and disassembled. In this video … Continued
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Home on a Hairpin Turn: Needs More Hazard Lights
Peru’s 2.8x Architects took on a challenge with the Mirador House—how do you build something beautiful when the land you have to work with is an uneven plot situated on a steep bend? The design they went with is a airy terraced home perfectly positioned into a difficult piece of land just east of Lima. … Continued
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Living Inside 12 Shipping Containers Was Never More Glamorous
This luxurious home created by stunt architect Adam Kalkin is actually just 12 shipping containers stacked up, surrounded by a greenhouse-like glass frame, and stuffed with furniture. It’s a perfect insta-mansion, or compound for your next Singulatarian cult. The house is currently for rent — you can live there for a week for $6,000-$10,000 according … Continued
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Some People Built the Star Trek Academy or a Jedi School or Something
Check out this government building—made of concrete and glass—by architect Zaha Hadid. I bet we are going to see some science fiction movies located here in the near future. It holds all sorts of libraries and archives and Star Trek academies and Jedi training centers. Or something like that. It’s located in Montpellier, France, and … Continued
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Driving through the world’s longest road tunnel is a trip through hyperspace
Completed in 2000, Norway’s fifteen-mile-long Lærdal Tunnel cuts through a mountain range near the village of Lærdalsøyri. To ease drivers’ claustrophobia and to prevent the underground monotony from lulling motorists to sleep, the tunnel is punctuated with a series of caverns designed to resemble impending daylight — perhaps that of some distant, blue raspberry sun. … Continued
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The Cousins of the Keebler Elves Live in this Hut
I don’t know if elves live in this house, but it sure looks like they might. Located on the Swedish coast, the 269-square-foot hut looks like a flower that just sprouted out of the ground. And it’s small not for lack of space or for maximizing energy costs, but because architect Torsten Ottesjö truly believes … Continued
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This Emergency Pop-Up Shelter Is Also the Perfect Bachelor Pad
The shipping container-sized EDV-01 is designed to be delivered to a disaster area and automatically transform into an emergency shelter. When deployed, two persons can live in the temporary structure for up to a month, complete with amenities like running water and electricity. A set of lithium batteries store the energy generated by solar cells … Continued
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Everyone Will Leave Georgia Just To See This Beautiful Border Crossing
Border crossings are usually designed to suck your soul while you wait in endless lines for a customs agent to approve or cancel your travel plans. But if your journeys have you crossing between Georgia and Armenia in the near future, you’ll be treated to this amazing architectural wonder at the border. Designed by Luka … Continued
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Bond-Style Yacht, Vintage Speakers, Courtyard Gondola, and More
Relax at the end of your long work week and take a moment to check out these lovely things. From a versatile fan-like wall shelf, to a yacht meant for a super villain, these are the most beautiful items of the week. https://gizmodo.com/delightful-vintage-speakers-resurrected-for-your-music-5929583 Delightful Vintage Speakers Resurrected for Your Music Player If you walk into … Continued
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The 9 Best Buildings of the London 2012 Olympics
Though not nearly as ostentatious as the buildings from the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the stadiums and arenas for the London 2012 Olympics are still quite lovely. Here are the best buildings you’ll probably see over and over again for the next few weeks. A lot of the focus for the buildings of the London Olympics … Continued
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Building a House Around a Funnel Heading for the Center of the Earth Sounds Terrifying
Although I know there’s probably no danger involved with this house—which has a bonafide, funnel-shaped opening in the middle of it—there is something ominous about this Nobuhiro Tsukada-designed Earth House, which is connected directly to the terrain below it. The inspiration for the concrete house design comes from the client, who, looking for privacy in … Continued
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A house that changes shape to survive earthquakes
Architect Fernando Herrera has a solution to the problem of how to build houses that can survive California earthquakes. He’s proposing that we make houses out of flexible strands of material that can bend like muscles. When a quake hits, the house will move with the Earth and remain intact. According to architecture magazine eVolo: … Continued
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The 2012 London Olympics Will be the First to Use This Recyclable Basketball Stadium
Designed jointly by Sinclair Knight Merz, Wilkinson Eyre and KSS, this first-of-its-kind recyclable basketball stadium will make its debut at the London games. But! Because if its strategic built-to-be-broken-down design, the 1,000 ton steel structure can be reused after the games are over! The recyclability factor and temporary nature of the structure conceivably means such … Continued
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Bet Your Courtyard Doesn’t Have Its Own Gondola
Who needs Venice when you have a gondola in your courtyard? This modern concrete home in Bangladesh has a serene lagoon in the atrium, making it the kind of place you’d never want to leave. The tall, temple-like structure is an airy retreat from the outside world. Living there would be like having your own … Continued
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Aerial canopies would let you explore the Amazon rainforest from above
When architecture student Yi Yvonne Weng considers the future of the Amazon rainforest, she pictures a place that has not fallen to deforestation, but has instead been preserved for scientific exploration. And that exploration takes place on vast, mesh canopies that stretch across the treetops. Weng just received the 2012 Foster + Partners Prize for … Continued
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This Modern Wooden Beach House Was Built for Its Beautiful Views
Built almost entirely from sourced timber, the Tutukaka Beach House is a stunning, modern home, located about 2 1/2 hours outside of Aukland on the northwest coast of New Zealand’s Northland Island. Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects, the firm behind Tutukaka, designed the home on central east/west plan, so as to take advantage of the spectacular … Continued
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High-Speed Ticker Board, Mercury Spacecraft Lamp, and More
At the end of a long week, we’ve got lots of lovely things to show off. From a space-inspired lamp to the stairs in a renovated Apple store, these are the most beautiful items of the week. This Incredible High-Speed Ticker Board Mimics Your Motion Just a few avenues over from New York’s Penn Station … Continued
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Radically Weird Visions of the Future of New York
New York has changed a lot over the centuries — but the strangest transformations could still be in the future. At least, that’s what a group of artists and designers think, based on the results of a competition to design strange and dystopian visions of the city’s future. The finalists include visions of buildings floating … Continued
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