Vanity Fair took a survey

That’s Rem Koolhaas’ Seattle Central Library, above

The Brooklyn-based duo did it up for Portugal Arte ’10.

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Treehotel opens for business July 17th, and it is one of the coolest hotels we’ve ever seen.

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It’s amazing that a building like this has stood empty for more than a decade

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via, @sub-studio

Last week I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Germany and learn about the Mercedes-Benz brand. Over the next couple days, I’ll be rolling out some of my experiences. First up is their Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Designed by UN Studio, no two windows in the building are the same and it holds a Guinness World Record for the “strongest artificially generated tornado in the world.” Besides all of that, the museum houses so many drool-worthy automobiles. And the horse? Well, that’s what started it all in the first place.

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Those are some big fish.

Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum’s entry into the 2010 eVolo Skyscraper Competition

“The ^hO₂+ scraper proposes to break free of the urban fabric and functions as self-sufficient ambassadors in the sea. The ^hO₂+ scraper is an autonomous floating unit of livable, functional and self sustaining space which will function, in a collective manner, as a floating city.  It is self sufficient as it generates its own power through wave, wind, current, solar, bio etc. and it generates its own food through farming, aquaculture, hydroponics etc. It carries with its own small forest on top its back and supports places for users to live and works  in its depths. Its bioluminescent tentacles provide sea fauna a place to live and congregate while collecting energy through its kinetic movements. Such sustainability strategies aim to ultimately create and provide an oasis with ‘Zero’ negative impacts to the environment, not only that but also improves on it hence the ’Plus’. Aptly as poetic antithesis to a skyscraper which goes up into the heavens the ^hO₂+ scraper goes down to the depths of the sea.”

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Designed by no. 555

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Very cool exploration of light, architecture, and sound by Barno

“Ice House Detroit is an architectural installation and social change project currently taking place in Detroit. Photographer Gregory Holm and architect, Matthew Radune will use one of 20,000 abandoned houses and freeze it in solid ice to reference the contemporary urban conditions in the city and beyond.”

See the project here

For moments of crisis, Concrete Canvas Shelters

“Rapidly deployable hardened shelters that require only water and air for construction. The 25sqm variant can be deployed by 2 people without any training in under an hour and is ready to use in only 24 hours.”

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This place is so sick.  If you ever need to throw a party in New Zealand, Yellow Treehouse is where to do it.

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I’m excited. The Nets are coming to Brooklyn and hopefully their name will be changed to the Dodgers.  How tight would that be?

More on the project here

Photographer Martin Becka used an 1857 view camera to create these ‘retro-futuristic’ photos of Dubai.

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I was surprised to not see DC’s (above) in this

With Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity opening at the Moma, we thought it fitting to look at Iwao Yamawaki, a Japanese Architect turned Bauhaus Photographer.

A friend sent me a link to Wonderwall’s website today, and I was amazed by the interiors they have designed.  Founded by Masamichi Katayama in 2000, the Japanese interior design firm is most known for their retail design (those who have been in Soho’s Uniqlo, that’s them) but, they do dabble in architecture and product design as well.  All of it is so sleek.

photos by KOZO TAKAYAMA

For more info on the firm, have a look at their website here

Well, not really. But the amazing use of glass and space in this house designed by Kraus-Schoenberg Architects allows it to appear as if it is floating about the ground.  For more info and photos go here

This house in Germany was built upside down for a special exhibition.  The designers went so far as to drill all of the furnishings into their proper places on the floor/ceiling.  I would live in this house if they kept the furniture on the ground.

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Then it is seriously one of the weirdest and most awesome houses ever created.  What do you think the inside looks like?  Ugh, there are too many questions that need to be answered.

more at the Mail Online here

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