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Beautiful landscape photography

We found browsing the web, a series of landscape pictures for you to enjoy! Have a look Do you have any idea where these places are? Read more [...]

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The Octahedron by LMNts

Architecture

The Octahedron (a Greek word meaning eight side) is an experimental pavilion created by Seattle based studioLMNTechStudio, The pavilion consisting of over 2000 parts was created to be exposed at the 2013 Seattle Design Festival. The team describes the process of design: We’ve been looking for opportunities to share the things we’re interested in outside of this blog, especially with people who are not necessarily computational designers. Early in the summer, we approached the committee Read more [...]

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Power lines supported by giants

Architecture

Choi+Shine is a nationally and internationally awarded architecture and design firm specializing in beautiful, optimistic and thoughtful designs. We are a young firm in an old profession, maintaining the delicate balance between traditional wisdom and fresh thinking. With this project, inspired by statues of Easter Island, the practice envisions that these one hundred and fifty foot tall, modern caryatids will take on a quiet authority, belonging to their landscape yet Read more [...]

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Fête des Lumières in Lyon

Design

Fête des Lumières 2013 #3 από ville-de-lyon The Festival of Lights in Lyon, France (or Fête des Lumières) kicked off on December 6th bringing with it dazzling light displays by artists from around the world. “Every year we ask the artists to propose their concepts based on locations,” explained Jean-François Zurawik, General coordinator of the festival to Euronews. “We ask them to use the city as a huge backdrop, and to make proposals for parks, buildings, theaters, town hall, Read more [...]

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Living on the edge: Cliff House by Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Architecture

Description from Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects This project is the first of a series of projects for a large 455 acre site on Nova Scotia’s Atlantic coast. This pure box in the landscape is precariously perched off a bedrock cliff to heighten one’s experience of the landscape through a sense of vertigo and a sense of floating on the sea. This strategy features the building’s fifth elevation – its ‘belly’. This modest 960 square foot cabin functions as a rustic retreat. Read more [...]

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