Archive for the ‘Landscape’ Category

Unusual Building in Vienna, Austria

Friday, July 9th, 2010

The total area of the Austria is "only" 83,870 square kilometers. However, the country that borders Germany and Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary in the east, Slovenia and Italy in the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west is a very special part in managing the art world. In almost all the nine states of Austria, the taste of art is always prominent in various forms of building or decoration of the city. Various arts, from music, dance, sculpture, painting, etc., all have a special place. See it; touch the art is almost ...

Building Shaped Water Drop

Monday, June 15th, 2009

The buildings are self-sufficient and organic fashion, at least among many architects will be... as usual for the next few decades? For now we must settle for futuristic designs like this one from De Urutia shaped drop giant. This is quite a building related to water, not only because of its shape, but because an integrated system that draws water directly from the air using solar energy and also part of the building is immersed under water. I do not know if the idea is to build it directly into a field with water or some kind ...

Library Chongqing, China

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Completed in 2007, the new library in the city of Chongqing, a huge city in China, with nearly 30 million inhabitants and more than 3000 years of history, it was designed by Perkins Eastman, with over 50,000 square meters construction. It was designed to become a civic and cultural icon, so this beautiful building goes beyond the notion that a library is simply a place full of books and therefore has a concert hall, space for art galleries, conference facilities, restaurant and a hotel for visitors. The building is almost completely covered in glass, to ensure good ...

Nothing: An office made of cardboard

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Nothing is an advertising agency in Amsterdam who has created offices carton. Como using anything unless you can see, almost everything has been done on this material, dividing walls, signs, beams, tables, shelves and even use the stairs cardboard. The concept was realized by Alrik Koundenburg and design was developed by Joost van Bleiswijk. [gallery] Source Step into my cardboard office