New Vodafone HQ

Imagine working at this place.

via Arch Daily

RIO OLYIMPIC BUILDING IS GONNA BE CRAZY

Solar panels create power for day, while a pumped water storage system provides power by night. On top of that it's a giant man made waterfall that looks surreal.

via Inhabitat

VERDICT? FUCKING REDICULOUS, BUT ECO AWESOME!

Arch Pic Of The Day: besiktas fish market by GAD

by GAD

via Designboom

ARCH PICS OF THE DAY: PLUS by Mount Fuji Architects Studio

VIA ARCH DAILY

Nice Use of Fractals

This building took the trees surrounding it as an inspiration for the building. It is beautiful. I'm guessing they got the pillar trees from a fractal equation. It is a conversion of old colonial buildings in mumbai. Anyway here are some pics.





The dining room walls are 3 dimensional and are also inspired by the trees. It was designed so each piece of wood could be crafted with fairly primitive tools.




VERDICT? ONE WITH NATURE HASN"T EVER LOOKED SO GOOD!

Sexiest Hotel ever.

The Axis Viana Hotel is awesome. Especially how looking at it at different angles show different interesting perspectives. It also contains the coolest looking pool ever.






via archdaily

VERDICT? APPROVED! WHY DON"T WE GET SOMETHING THIS AWESOME IN SEATTLE?

FACADE PROJECTION

I found this this summer on my Google reader, but couldn't find it in my vast list of starred posts. A second blog I follow posted this, so i found it! This is hands down the most trippy thing I have ever seen. Some of the parts look real, it is really freaky! It pails in comparison to the other projection video i posted here. Anyway this one is on some sorta modern art museum: Galerie der Gegenwart. I googled it and its all in another language (i think german or dutch) so i could not really get good info on it! anyway here is the video...PREPARE TO BE IN AWE

555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

VERDICT? APPROVED. SEATTLE ART MUESEUM STEP YOUR GAME UP!

Pics of the Day: Architecture Edition #3

VIA ARCHDAILY

VERDICT? APPROVED (daily combo (2xFRESH+APPROVED)/ARCH PIC OF THE DAY.)

Interior Concept

Amanda Levete Architects won best interior at the world architecture festival. The main concept is create a seemless change from a netural (like a wall) to an active space (like a bench.) Here are the many concepts that they came up with:


Wall into shelves




Wall into Bench




Wall into Kitchen




Wall into bathroom

via designboom


VERDICT? THIS IS AWESOME!

Pics of the Day: Architecture Edition #2

one wall is all windows



pathway leading up to the church

A church in the small village of Tarnow, Poland.

read up about it at ARCH DAILY

VERDICT? APPROVED. IF I WAS NOT JEWISH I WOULD WANT TO GO THERE FOR CHURCH.

Robotic arm UPDATE

remember that robotic arm that builds perfectly calculated wall designs that can't be build by human hands? well right now its building an infinite loop in Manhattan.


via storefrontnews

VERDICT? APPROVED ONCE AGAIN

Pic of the Day

Jean Nouvele’s 100 11th Ave in NY. The building itself is a little schizophrenic but the photography of the facade is beautiful.

via arch daily

Building of the day: Sports and Leisure Center

note: click on picture to see the full image






This equivalent to a YMCA center in the US is rightfully called a Sports and Leisure Center. It is designed for the youth of Saint Cloud, France as a celebration and sports place. This building looks beautiful from the inside out with its huge pallet of colors that fit a child's personality. You have to admit that the facade looks beautiful and that other picture i posted of the basket ball courts is the coolest court you have ever seen

Click here for way more info

VERDICT? APPROVED

Building Projections

This shit is unbelievable. Watch it to the end.


Verdict?HOW DID THEY DO THIS?

Robot Built

This structure is built by a robot that is programed to build patterns that could not be built exactly the same by hand. No human could build this structure as precise.

See more pictures here

VERDICT? APPROVED