Expo ‘70 [ Asahi newsreel ]
The 1970 World’s Fair — a.k.a. Expo ‘70 — opened in Osaka 40 years ago this week. A total of 77 countries attended the event and the number of visitors surpassed 64 million people, making it one of the largest and best attended expositions in history. This was the first World’s Fair to be held in Japan, a nation that had experienced an extremely rapid period of develo...
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The Dornbirn, Austria based architectural firm of DI Bernardo Bader , designed the Metzgerstüble bar and café, located in the small Austrian town of Mellau.
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Photography by Adolf Bereuter
Visit the website of DI Bernardo Bader – here .
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The Winter Olympics are over and amongst the medals and trouncing the US at hockey, Vancouver was praised for hosting the “greenest Olympics ever” with LEED certified buildings , the use of recaptured gas and the construction of a hydrogen highway. However, London looks set to raise the bar even higher with plans to blow Vancouver’s achievements out of the water in 2012. The London Olympic Auth...
The residence in the images below is a restoration of a Edwardian building in Australia developed by Architects Eat . The project team stated that their intention was “to create an Inside is outside is inside environment, where inside and outside spaces were interchangeable elements”. The construction took 18 months to finish, but is was worth the wait. The property also features a beautiful co...
Tall buildings can reach the heavens.
Artist Jan Vormann recently traveled to New York to apply some of his LEGO renovations to cracks and holes around the city.
We have covered a lot of architecture projects and this one, called "Leaf House", may well be the most amazing cottage in the world. The cottage is located on an escarpment overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Sydney, Australia. It belongs as part of a larger private residence. The shape of the project has been fastened from the images of leaves making this very unique indeed. The roof is constru...
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Suppose Design Office recently finished a family house in the city of Obama, in the Fukui prefecture on the sea of Japan.
The client – the director of a clinic opposite the house – wished to combine openness on the ground floor to allow for parking spaces for this clients with a more protected first floor living spaces.
Kitchen space, bathrooms, study corners and storage are strategically p...
Water-scraper is a concept piece entered into the eVoIo Skyscraper Competition which shows a future where people live and work underwater. Harnessing wave, wind and solar power to generate electricity, it's a future world I'd be thrilled to live in.
We'd also be able to grow food using aquaculture and hydroponic ways—though if it just tastes like algae I might stick with city-living for a wh...
American architect Julia Morgan once said, “ Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. “.
Indeed, architecture serves as a voice to express the artistic stance of the architect at that time. Photography takes a step further to interpret architecture in several ways. What used to be an accurate portrayal of the structure has now gradually evolved into a manipulation ...
Ocean levels are rising around the globe, so rather than tethering our buildings to the sinking shoreline why not suit them for a life at sea? That’s the approach behind the Water-Scraper , a futuristic self-sufficient floating city. A special mention in this year’s eVolo Skyscraper Competition , the design expands the concept of a floating island into a full-fledged underwater skyscraper th...
Australian architect Bojan Simic has designed the Orb House in Melbourne, Australia.
Full description after the photos….
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Description of the Orb House by Bojan Simic:
Visit the website of Bojan Simic Architecture – here .
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