Michael Wolf - “Architecture of Density”
Untouched pictures of Hong Kong with its 7 million inhabitants and its concrete towers.
Michael Wolf - “Architecture of Density”
Untouched pictures of Hong Kong with its 7 million inhabitants and its concrete towers.
The Living Wall
Artist Nikita Nomerz travels around cities of Russia, bringing back life to old abandoned buildings and objects by giving them eyes, noses, and various facial features.
Le Cercle Fermé by Martine Feipel & Jean Bechameil
Cemetery + Wake Room Hopfgarten designed by Schneider & Lengauer Architects
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Starbucks in Fukuoka designed by Kengo Kuma
The Neighbourhood Centre is located in former industrial buildings from 1880. Today the scheme houses a local library and a café as well as office facilities on the upper floors. The structural changes to the existing building consists primarily of the partial removal of the existing floor decks in order to create a new, triple-high foyer space running the length of the building.
The Minister’s Treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee is a 100ft structure built by minister Horace Burgess from the early 1990s through 2004. The entire building wraps around a giant tree and was built completely without blueprints, sprawling to an estimated 10,000 square feet inside, including a four-story swing set.
Photo taken by: Kristin Sweeting
Statue Of Liberty In Paris, 1877-1885
Unearthed photos of the Statue of Liberty being built in Paris before she was dedicated to the people of America, currently on display at the New York Public Library.
Not far off the Pacific coast in the Costa Rican jungle, a community has taken to the trees to craft a new, sustainable life off the grid and away from urbanity. Finca Bellavista is a community of long-term residents and travel guests housed in a network of tree houses built right into the rain forest canopy. Perched above the forest floor, these tree houses are connected by zip lines and sky bridges, accessible by stairs and ladders from the ground level.
Greenery installation branch Wow! Grass! of UK turf company Lindum has covered the entirety of the nave belonging to york minster with a layer of real grass. The 16,000 square foot grass artwork had been developed for the York Minster rose dinner to benefit the cathedral’s monetary collection organization, the York Minster Fund, for the continued upkeep of the 1,000 year old structure.
Stacking Green by Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Life In Spiral by Hideaki Takayanagi
Just in time for the summer, section 2 of The High Line has officially opened to the public in New York City. Designed by New York-based practices James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro,the one mile long urban park is recycled from the former elevated freight railroad spur and runs from gansevvort street in the meatpacking district to west 34th street, between 10th and 11th avenues.
French artist,Serge Salat’s latest installation labeled ‘Beyond Infinity’ is a multi-sensory structure that interweaves mirrors, lights and music. An architecture that alters the visitor’s perceptions of space and reality. As the viewers continue to progress, their experience inside is designed as a mystical journey creating an immersive world of a different nature.
