Art Nouveau Doors <3
(Photos uncredited as I collected them on my hard-drive a long time ago!)
jesus fuck, it got better
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A fusion of Indo-Islamic architecture coupled with Gothic art form. Mahabat Maqbara, Junagadh, Gujarat
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The Arche de la Défense in Paris has been transformed into a honeycomb of subsidiary spaces: encrusted with modules that have been attached to the inside of the existing building’s vast interior.
As writer and curator Maryse Quinton describes it, “this study imagines the hijacking of a building that is symbolic for its monumentality and its location: the Arche de la Défense.”
imagine walking up these when you’re drunk
I’d have trouble walking up these sober. If I were drunk, I would probably just crash on the floor without even trying.
Glass Igloos of the Kakslauttanen Hotel in Saariselka (Finland). The Igloo Village allows guests to experience and appreciate the beauty of Lapland nature and the Northern lights. The E-GLAS Igloos melt snow by gentle heating, ensuring clear views in all weather conditions.
This amazing house was build in 2006 by Arquitectura Orgánica. A young couple with two children from Mexico City who after living in a conventional home wanted to change to one integrated to nature. The goal of this project was to make it feel like an internal inhabitant of a snail, like a mollusk moving from one chamber to another, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister.
An amazing fully mobile elephant house! Here’s a video of it in action!
So basically some dude in Wales named Simon Dale built this house himself, and it’s incredibly sustainable. Details from his website:
- Dug into hillside for low visual impact and shelter
- Stone and mud from diggings used for retaining walls, foundations etc.
- Frame of oak thinnings (spare wood) from surrounding woodland
- Reciprocal roof rafters are structurally and aesthaetically fantastic and very easy to do
- Straw bales in floor, walls and roof for super-insulation and easy building
- Plastic sheet and mud/turf roof for low impact and ease
- Lime plaster on walls is breathable and low energy to manufacture (compared to cement)
- Reclaimed (scrap) wood for floors and fittings
- Anything you could possibly want is in a rubbish pile somewhere (windows, burner, plumbing, wiring…)
- Woodburner for heating - renewable and locally plentiful
- Flue goes through big stone/plaster lump to retain and slowly release heat
- Fridge is cooled by air coming underground through foundations
- Skylight in roof lets in natural feeling light
- Solar panels for lighting, music and computing
- Water by gravity from nearby spring
- Compost toilet
- Roof water collects in pond for garden etc.
Main tools used: chainsaw, hammer and 1 inch chisel, little else really.
WANT ALL THE BUILDINGS!
I would love this! Accept I would want the walls to be bookshelves and to paint a sky mural on the roof. Then have a window looking out over a lake on the wall across the room from the bed.
