The late japanese-american architect isamu noguchi took the concept of water supported foutains to another level when he created this incredible looking set of fountains for the world expo in osaka, japan. the effect is stunning and surreal, the boxes looking as if they are taking off under the force of their own water jets.
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Hong Kong is one of the more populated cities in the world with a density of 30,000 inhabitants per km². To answer to this overpopulation, Vincent Callebaut Architecte proposes a “perfumed harbour” made of green towers that produce more than they consume.
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Last week the University of Copenhagen and Christensen & Co Arkitekter A/S, broke ground on a stunning new Faculty of Science building, dubbed the Green Lighthouse. This carbon-neutral building makes excellent use of natural light and will feature solar panels, LED lighting, and scores of other sustainable strategies.
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The Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan is a life-size rendition of a banyan tree.
The aptly-named Banyan Town shopping center near the entrance of Onoyama Park features a twenty foot tall tree with a pan-Asian restaurant nestled amid its branches.
Accessible by a spiral staircase around back and an in-trunk elevator, the restaurant specializes in locally [...]
The amazing Dupli Casa in southern Germany follows the footprint of the previous dwelling and its numerous extensions. The idea was to let the “family archaeology” continue in the new building. It’s a house that remembers its beginnings in 1984 but pushes a wormhole through the space-time continuum and comes out the other end all [...]
These pictures were created by Dutch architecture firm NL as a creative exercise in design and were recently presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale. No clue what they mean, but they are a lot of fun.
More Dutch crazy shoppery after the jump
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San Francisco-based Kyu Che has created the sustainable Lifepod. Loosely based on the traditional Mongolian ger (or ‘yurt’ as the Russian translation goes), the Lifepod is at once organic and high-tech.
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Looking like a huge cloud hovering just above water level at the end of a jetty, the blur building was constructed for the swiss expo in 2002 by architects diller & scofidio.
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