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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Eastern Design Office Anna Nakamura And Taiyo Jinno

The building, built by architects Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno from the Japanese studio EASTERN Design Office, was named "Mountains and Openings Residence". This luxury villa, performing the function of location and office-style Japanese brand sneakers. Built in Takarazuka-city, in the prefecture Hego, and has a rather modest view of the road, the residence has a magnificent interior on several floors overlooking the inner garden.



















Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Panoramic Tower In Austria

Studio Terrain: loenhart & mayr designed panoramic tower at River Mur in Austria's Styria region. Architects have drawn Inspiration from the double helix, which the Emperor Maximilian built in the castle of Graz in 1499. This structure is made of two polygonal stairs connecting the top. Interestingly, the tower, despite its geometric and rational language is in harmony with the surrounding park landscape. The structure is made of cells with a rectangular section, supporting two (aluminum and steel) ladders. Thick bars reduce the vibrations from walking visitors or wind. Total tower 27.5 m high, weighs 87 tons and has a diameter of 8.7 m.














Monday, July 19, 2010

Minimalist House In Okinawa

This long, narrow house in Okinawa (Japan), designed by Japanese studio Shinichi Ogawa & Associates, is divided along the patio and utility area.
The project is called "minimalist house". The whole area of the house - these four walls, internally divided into three bands. The first part - a courtyard open to the sky and separated from the second lane is a glass partition. Second, the middle section contains a bedroom, living room furniture and workspace. The third band is designed for the kitchen, pantry and bathroom.
The house was built for a couple.















Saturday, July 17, 2010

Unique Treehotel in Sweden

If you are missing this summer vivid impressions, go to the Sweden. Just this weekend (July 17) there, in the north, opens a completely unique hotel, all rooms which hung in a pine forest between the trees. Not only that Treehotel - is an ecological architectural structure, it is to Also, very beautiful. Due to the fact that the outer wall of one the rooms are faced with a mirror, create a false impression that no hotel is actually not - is simply beautiful forest.
The hotel still has four rooms - all from different Architects. They called Cabin, Blue Cone, Jack and mirrored cube. The owners Hotel has 24 rooms on the plans developed by 24 Architects for five years. Two rooms - UFOs and Room With a View - will be completed in October before they come Polar night. I must say that the hotel is located in the ancient Arctic forest.