Archive for December, 2010
Floating Spa Ferryboat in Montreal
The famous ferryboat, which once transported passengers across the river, was the world’s first traveling Art Center during Expo 67 in Montreal. After two years of renovation and redesign by Sid Lee, this famous Bota Bota boat has been transformed into a floating spa where guests can receive relaxing treatments and take in the sights [...]
Category: infrastructure,Renovation,Sustainable Design, posted at: Dec 31st 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: art center, Bota Bota, inhabitat, Sid Lee, spa, Sustainable Design
Modern Home from Historical Defense Tower in England
The home’s designer and owner Duncan Jackson worked closely with Piercy Conner Architects to create a comfortable, contemporary living space that maintains the aesthetic integrity of the historically registered defense tower at Suffolk, England. The project solved a set of thorny issues while creating a truly gracious home in the wetlands that preserves a unique [...]
Category: Home,House,Towers, posted at: Dec 31st 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: British Empire, Duncan Jackson, England, House, living space, Star Wars
Attractive Inflatable Roof Canopy for Netherland Fair
The pillowy pavilion provokes the spirits and emits a soft warm glow over the inhabitants below. Dubbed The Roof That Goes Up in Smoke, the piece was designed by the Dutch collective Overtreders W, and features an illuminated pillow inflated by a wood stove. All Souls Day was celebrated the Allerzielen.nu fair in the Netherlands [...]
Category: Canopy,Pavilion, posted at: Dec 31st 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: contemporary art, inhabitat, Netherlands, Pavilion, roof, Souls Day, wood stove
Gorgeous Tropical Island Resort from Gigantic Airship Hangar
Located in the countryside between Dresden and Berlin, this supermassive hangar once housed gigantic airships, and now it has been given a second life as an indoor tropical resort that holds the world’s largest indoor pool and water park. The building was modified to bring in lots of sunlight and the huge doors were welded [...]
Category: Resort, posted at: Dec 31st 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: Berlin, Europe, interior, Las Vegas, square meters, water park
Attractive Japanese Cottages Design in Yokohama
Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects based the components of the hotel on the form of the shipping container, stacking one of the minimalistic boxes atop another to form a roomy, light filled seaside cottage. Since the container look alikes are prefabricated and modular. They were able to go up with minimal impact on the site, and damaged [...]
Category: Architects,Shipping Container, posted at: Dec 30th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: Cottage, inhabitat, Japan, living room, prefabricated, Thailand
Gorgeous Biomorphic by Forrest Fulton
Alabama based architectural firm Forrest Fulton designed a 900,000 sqf building that resembles a mountain in Yerevan, Armenia. The biomorphic building consists of a structural lattice that connects the city and landscape to the project. The hill is covered with regional plants and it is accessible to pedestrians as a leisure park. From the top [...]
Category: Architectural,Innovation Designer,Landscape, posted at: Dec 30th 2010, Comments: 1 CommentTags: aerial view, architectural firm, elements, evolo, Forrest Fulton, Innovation Designer, Landscape, pedestrians
Fascinating School House Made by Bottles in Filipina
This cleverly constructed school house in San Pablo, Philippines, which happens to be the first bottle architecture of its kind in Asia. The innovative building was conceived and constructed by Illac Diaz and MyShelter Foundation as a way of turning a negative and an abundance of discarded plastic bottles into a positive brand new place [...]
Category: Architecture,House, posted at: Dec 30th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: Architecture, Asia, Bottle School, House, Illac Diaz, inhabitat, San Pablo, School
Innovative Prefab Eco Homes by ARKit
Australian based prefab maker ARKit, designed modern homes into low-impact, eco-friendly dwellings. The ARKit designs designs and manufactures factory-built buildings using a wall panel system they designed themselves that incorporates sustainable materials and achieves a high degree of thermal performance. The wall system provides both insulation as well as structural stability. All materials were considered [...]
Category: Eco Design,Home,House, posted at: Dec 30th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: dwellings, energy use, environmental footprint, footprint, high efficiency, House, prefabs, sustainable materials, water recycling
Beautiful Taiwanesse Home with Bamboo Screen
London based ROEWU architecture came up with a clever green solution for a family home in eastern Taiwan that involves a beautiful bamboo screen wrap. The screen is a more aesthetically pleasing version of the steel security bars found on most homes, and it allows windows to be open to aid natural ventilation. The Bamboo [...]
Category: Home,House, posted at: Dec 30th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: bamboo, fresh air, House, living spaces, natural ventilation, ROEWU, spa, Taiwan, ventilation
Plus Energy House for Zero Energy House Concept
Designed by the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart, this concept home that is not just net zero but actually designed to generate excess energy to charge electric cars within its futuristic carport. Similar to many of the homes in the solar decathlon, this home is packed to [...]
Category: Home,House, posted at: Dec 29th 2010, Comments: No CommentsTags: House, ILEK, living space, solar, solar power, treehugger, Werner Sobek
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