Sako Architects designed this wonderful book store for children, in Bejing, China. The coloured ribbon flows through the building to cultivate children’s curiosity. The rooms are designed around activities like story telling and theatre.
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Country home by Thomas Gluck
Thomas Gluck’s country home does not look anything like a country home. It has no rustic stone fireplace, and there’s not an exposed wooden beam in site. Rather, the modern, glassy house offers stunning panoramic views of the forest canopy.
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Video by Michael Shainblum
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but sometimes two clichés can make something cool. That’s the case with Michael Shainblum’s Mirror City project. Shainblum took two overused visual tricks—urban time-lapses and the kaleidoscope effect—and combined them to make a video that’s full of eye candy.
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Short movie by Luke Shepard
Nightvision is a celebration of the brilliance and diversity of architecture found across Europe. Over the course of three months, Luke Shepard journeyed with a friend through 36 cities in 21 countries, to capture some of the greatest European structures.
Three years has the indoor swimming pool Tropicana been closed and abandoned. Dutch photographer Rutger Geerling captured the desertion of the former recreation resort, but it’s not hard to imagine kids playing around here in its glory days.
James Schollum, a 3rd year year bachelor of Architectural Studies in Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, designed this concept for the Laguna Seca circuit. The Corkscrew House runs over the famous ‘Corkscrew’ bend.
Aerial photography by Peter Andrew, from Toronto, Canada. Andrew spend hours on Google Earth, looking for interesting compositions and interchanges, then shot them from a Cessna single engine plane.
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Interior by Rijksmuseum
The restoration and renovation of the Rijksmuseum are based on a design by Spanish architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz. The renovation, which took nearly ten years and cost € 375 million, includes the famous painting The Night Watch by Rembrandt.
Accidental architecture patterns captured by Singapore-based photographer Jared Lim, in his series ‘Urban Exploration’.
Impressive Starbucks Interior by Kengo Kuma, a Studio from Japan.