Archive for the ‘Design & Architecture’ Category

Very soon Jordan will have an important theme park that will include an attraction inspired by Star Trek. A sum of $1.5 billion has been already authorized for the development of the project. The project will be taking place in Aqaba, a Jordanian coastal city and will be spread to more than 74 hectare area. This project will be called the Red Sea Astratium, this ... Full story

Latvia based architectural organization, ARHIS has suggested a very detailed and green design for the plan of constructing a kindergarten in Riga, a city of Latvia. This proposal consists of classrooms that sketch the wonderful stretch of greenery, or the huge park, providing the children a continuous touch of nature. The building is parted into specific spaces like ... Full story

We all know that shipping containers are normally used for shipments and old shipping containers are used for storing in big godowns but now WeDesign, a New York based practice is working together with XP & Architecture and planning a big building parallel with long beach in California that will connect the city of Long Beach, Broadway Area and Long Beach Blvd. The project is ... Full story

The world is experiencing an increasing worry among its population about the well-known and very important global warming issues. What would be consequences if the biggest contributor after industries could be made to take a turn of 360 degrees itself? Don’t you think it would be an absolute magic if rather than talking only about a solar lamp, cooker or a water heater, we could ... Full story

inFORM studio has been showing state-of-the-art skills with the help of its work on the Myrtle Beach International Airport’s project and this is one of the best and fresh examples of a brilliant architectural design. This project is worth $129 million, which includes the Terminal Expansion Capacity Program. In this program you soon would be able to witness a fresh terminal added to ... Full story

Rie Hosokai, a Japanese ballon artist makes use of latex balloons to make unique dresses that can be worn only 24 hours before they collapse and change their color in hot water. The latex balloons are blown up and woven by hand in various directions both horizontally and vertically, making a texture that looks like fabric. The quantity ... Full story

The Kiev, a retired former Soviet aircraft carrier is agitating interest as the first aircraft carrier hotel of China, just after some days the Varyag, first aircraft carrier of China was taken out for sea trials. The Kiev is the second carrier, it was sold to a Chinese company in 1196 and it was used as a portion of military theme park in the provice ... Full story

Hong Kong roads are different from the rest of roads in China. Hong Kong, the former British colony has kept the British tradition to drive on the right side of the road. However, when you want to connect such place with the rest of the "normal" world which is driving on the left side of the road, you have to have a crossing point specially ... Full story

Vanessa Stallbaum and Marco Stepniak decided to combine two old mail cars in the design of their new house since they love train so much. Vanessa and Marco are the German couple and they met each other on train, and they spent their first vacation on train ride for four days from Berlin to Kazakhstan. Marco told his ... Full story

The house of Miroslav Svoboda in Mutenice, the Czech Republic, has become a great tourist attraction since he decorated the house with 180,000 wine corks. Two years back, Mr. Svoboda got this idea of using wine corks to decorate his house and make more appealing. There was circle space on one of the walls that was empty, and ... Full story