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Serero Architects and his redesign Eiffel Tower Project
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Paris-based Serero Architects have claimed victory in the open competition to redesign any of the Eiffel Tower's public reception and access areas.. The project will extend the top floor plate of the tower by grafting a high performance carbon Kevlar structure on it. The structure will be temporarily bolted to the slab without requiring any modification of the existing structure. It will expand the usable floor area from 280 m2 to 580m2. I wonder what parisians will think?
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Nomadhome - Transportable and Extendable House
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Nomadhome gives the largest possible efficient use of space and geographical flexibility. Living space that is transportable and extendable at all times. A home that moves with you when you change location. On a building plot from as little as 200-300m², maybe not even bought but rented or leased. Nomadhome can be used as your house, a coffee lounge, showroom, temporary office, shop, or colleagues apartment...
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The Newspaper House
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The interactive artwork by artist Summer Erek, was created with the help of the public who brought old newspapers to fit into the structure. The 5ft high building has been installed as a piece of public art in Gillet Square in Dalston, Hackney. The artist erected the wooden structure in a local church and residents were encouraged to bring and place newspapers into it. Train companies donated about two tonnes of newspapers left by commuters while another 10,000 papers were collected by Project Freesheet. [ Link ]

Backpack House

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In this city, if you need a floating house, your own house that you can see the streets from the house's floor? Its name is Backpack House. As mobile as a "rucksack ", adds extra space at the front of each residential building attached. The Backpack House consists of a cube-made element with the dimensions width 2.50 m, 2.50 m in height and 3.60 m deep. The construction is a welded steel cage with a light birch veneered plywood interior cladding. The height of the top floor of the cube element is approximately 10.50 m, and the total weight of the sculpture is approximately 2.0 t. For the fearless high person!
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Spittelau Viaducts Project
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Spittelau Viaducts project in Vienna, Austria by Zaha Hadid nearing completion. The site is formed via the culmination of densely overlapping infrastructural elements: the "Spittelauer Leande" is one of Vienna's most highly traveled roadways; the Danube Canal connecting Germany to Hungary. The housing is built along the Donaukanal, over Otto Wagner's elevated metro viaduct.



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Beijing Airport - World's Largest Airport Building
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The new Beijing airport new terminal set to open. Designed by Foster + Partners, the Beijing Airport is the "world's largest and most advanced airport building - not only technologically, but also in terms of passenger experience, operational efficiency and sustainability." A symbol of place, its soaring aerodynamic roof and dragon-like form will celebrate the thrill of flight and evoke traditional Chinese colours and symbols. Jump more to see the video.
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St Bartholomew Church
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When I first time see it, love this design. Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky has redesigned the interior of a church in Eastern Bohemia. The interior of St. Bartholomew's Church features Verner Panton chairs customised with a punched crucifix, Persian rugs and chandeliers of rough-cut crystal. [ Pics,Via ]
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Poseidon Underwater Hotel
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The Poseidon Undersea Resort will be the world's first 40 feet underwater hotel set to open early 2009. Besides the six restaurants, seven bars, dive shop, water sports center, retail boutique, library/lounge, theater, conference room, wedding chapel, nine-hole golf course, tennis courts, you can actually feed the fish when pushing a button from a control console. An elevator gets to transport guests under the sea to the 24 suites and the luxury apartment that all have a special interior window film for privacy, even if day light hours it's nearly impossible to look into the suits from underwater. It will be set up on Fiji.



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ICE Hotel
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This pictures are the ICEHOTEL(SEK1120 - 3090/Night; about $177-$488) in village Jukkasjärvi, 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. This hotel building is made of ice and snow and includes a church and an ice bar. But if you get cold don't expect to find a fireplace or a heater.
"You sleep in a thermal sleeping bag on a special bed of snow and ice, on reindeer skins," we read. "You are awakened in the morning with a cup of hot lingonberry juice at your bedside."
This year, the hotel was built with collaborative input from students of Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology. Here is a price list, in Swedish krona, should you want to book a few nights.
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Atelier For Calligrapher

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A amazing building - Atelier For Calligrapher by kochi architect's studio. " The site is the foot of mounten Yatsugatake.The building is sliden because of deleting mentenance ,good outlook , expanding atelier floor. "

The Braid Lights Up Sudell Cross
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This amazing LED tower, if you like this modern architecture or art? In Sudell Cross in Blackburn, UK where a £1.1 million marvel of light and architecture standing 10 m tall, attracts tourists much to the delight of the local shop and restaurant owners. The Braid designed by artist Simon Watkinson, is a RHOS complied steel and fabricated metal column with color changing LED fittings in the 3M Martin Architectural lights (they control transporting and are responsible for even distribution of lights). Check more for more pics.
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Japanese Tea House
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This Japanese tea house is pretty in the night. The tea house in the garden Frankfurt museum munich, in Germany from Kengo Kuma & Associates. It is like a light peanut.
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