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Designed by C.F Moller Architects, this 34 storey wooden skyscraper in Stockholm is designed as one of the proposals for the HSB Stockholm’s architectural competition 2023. HSB Stockholm – Sweden’s largest building society – is 100 years old in 2023. At that time an ultra-modern residential high-rise building will be completed in Stockholm city. Three architectural teams [...]

‘Head in the Clouds’ is a cloud shaped pavilion created from over 50,000 recycled bottles for the FIGMENT’s 2013 City of Dreams art celebration on New York’s Governors Island. Created by Studio KCA, the pavilion spreads on an area of 800 sq feet where visitors can enter into and contemplate the light and colour filtering through [...]

Best known for its ‘out of the box’ imagination & innovative designs, Riga based architectural firm NRJA’s latest creation is a low cost house called Dom(e). Designed for all seasons, the prefabricated home is easy to construct and is made from materials that are durable and eco-friendly. The internal structure consists of a glued laminated [...]

Proposal for Taichung city cultural centre in Taiwan As part of a competition organized by the Taichung City Government in Taiwan, the team of architects from Maxthreads Architectural Design & Planning designed the Taichung City Cultural Centre with the aim of combining nature and innovative technology. The project defines the northern arrival gateway to Taichung Gateway Park, providing a public hub to [...]

Architectural firm TackleBox has very creatively and intelligently transformed a meat storage facility, auto storage, & a floral shop in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan into the retail boutique of New York’s reputed fashion brand OWEN. The 1800 sq. feet store is designed and hand-built from floor to ceiling with 25,000 brown paper bags to replicate [...]

Pillar House by Japanese architect Suzuko Yamada Created by Japanese architect Suzuko Yamada, Pillar House is a concept that was designed with the intent of proposing a new type of housing that emphasizes the living quality of it inhabitants. It was first introduced as a miniature model submission for the ‘Arts & Life: A Housing for [...]

Railway Terminus Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh has done it all – watercolours, decorative glass, furniture design and buildings. His most famous structure is the Glasgow School of Art completed in 1909. His tall, straight back chairs are icons too, part of an exaggerated angular aesthetic he applied to interior design. He’s [...]

Atira builds Canada’s first container housing complex Builders love old shipping containers. Structurally sound, if not a little ugly, they can be turned into instant structures. Drive-through banks or coffee kiosks come to mind. They’ve even been turned into single family homes. Now, a Vancouver non-profit is going one step further, creating Canada’s first multi-unit housing complex [...]

ORQUIDEORAMA by Plan B Architects and JPRCR Architects If you could ever imagine walking through a Botanical Garden of wooden organisms, it would look and feel something like the Orquideorama. It is a series of connected inter-modular structures that elude to the ways in which a plant or garden grows organically. Because it is in the Botanical [...]

As part of a competition organized by Polish architecture firm Mode: Lina to design an Eco home, Netherlands based architecture firm 123DV Architects designed a hidden house with high sustainable performance. While 123DV has worked on several sustainable architecture projects, this one was definitely much more challenging in terms of creating something unusual, yet extending [...]