If You’ve Ever Laughed At The People Of Springs You Should Read This
Travelling out to the East Rand is for the brave, but what if we said there was some really interesting architecture to be found. For real.
It Took 17 Months And R35 Million To Restore Rome’s Trevi Fountain To This
Tourists who like to throw money away should be stoked that the Trevi Fountain is back – and it’s more glorious than ever.
Apple’s New Campus Is Coming Along – Check Out This Radical Drone Footage [Video]
Apple’s Spaceship is looking mighty exciting – and this drone footage shows you just how massive 2.8 million square feet is.
These Office Spaces Around The World Will Make You Hate Yours
The most important aspect of your office space? Being able to relay to clients without mention what your company is all about. If you need some game, check these for inspiration…
Is This Solid-Glass Swimming Pool Suspended Between Two Buildings In London A Bit Too Much?
A new and extravagant swimming pool design has caused mixed reactions online. You best take a look to make your own mind up.
They’ve Built A $100 Million Building To Look Like The Starship Enterprise
If you could have your place of work look like absolutely anything, what would you choose? Sit inside a pirate ship? A private island? A coffee roastery? To each their own…
Google’s Proposed New Offices Will Blow Your Mind [Images+Video]
No one is knocking that view you have out of your window straight onto Table Mountain (or in Jozi, the smog), but Google’s new offices are certainly worth a look.
Check What Dulux, PPC, Volkswagen, Red Bull & MTV Have In Common
They’re all pretty big names, I think we can agree, but what exactly is the common thread which runs through all of these successful companies?
Check Out This Harry Potter Lookalike School, In China [Image]
Inspired by European Gothic Architecture, this school looks almost exactly like Hogwarts, the school from Harry Potter…
Chinese Company 3D Prints House
Trust the Chinese to do something quicker, faster and more efficiently. Worker bees that they are. So what the industrious Orientals have managed to do this time, is literally build ten one-storey houses in a DAY by using 3D printing technology. The 3D printers in question are massive, being10 meters (33 feet) wide and 6.6 […]
They’re Building A 3D-Printed House [VIDEO]
Dutch architects from the company Dus, are busy building canal house in Amsterdam using a giant 3D-printer. No – they haven’t had one too many space cakes. Using a massive 3D-printer made from a converted shipping container, they are trying to change the way we construct homes in the future.
Here Are The Most Recent Renderings Of Apple’s Spaceship Headquarters
You see? This is what happens when you give your money to forward-thinking companies. Instead of cutting cost and building a massive grey block of an office building – Apple is constructing the one of the worlds most advanced office spaces, one that has will have a neautral carbon footprint after construction.
House Of The Week: Consider What 5 Bar Gets You In KZN [GALLERY]
Welcome to the leafy Durban district of Kloof. Kloof happens to be perched on the edge of Kloof Gorge, which translates to “Gorge Gorge”. That’s because Durban is populated by English people who don’t really understand the Afrikaans names for things, leading to these kinds of cock-ups. What they have nailed, however, is stunning architecture.
They’re Building A Skyscraper That Can Go Invisible [VIDEO]
Korea is going to be the home to the world’s first invisible skyscraper! GDS Architects are going to build what they are calling ‘the anti-skyscraper’ — a 450 meter tower that will create an optical illusion to make it look like it’s disappearing into thin air.
Global Workplaces – These Offices Are Better Than Your Offices [GALLERY]
Are you looking for a new work environment to stimulate your senses? Maybe you should work for one of these companies, they have awesome offices. Apparently slides are a pre-requisite in most of these places.
First Look Inside Facebook’s New York City Office Space [PICS]
Social media giant, Facebook announced their plans earlier this year to move their offices to the Big Apple. Their headquarters relocation will be refreshing change for staff from their current location in Bank Of America Tower, especially as Frank Gehry will be designing the space.
These Are The Finalists For The Most Beautiful Building In The World [PICS]
These are some of the shortlisted buildings at the 2013 World Architecture Festival. It’s the world’s largest architecture festival with 29 categories and the coveted title of ‘World Building of the Year’.
Life In The Sky – Amazing Photography Of Hong Kong’s Skyscrapers [GALLERY]
Hong Kong is known for its mindblowing skyline. French photographer, Romain Jacquet-Lagreze recently published a book titled “Vertical Horizons”capturing the best of Hong Kong’s biggest buildings. Check out the gallery for a few choice tidbits.
Say Hello To 1 World Trade Center – The Tallest Building In The Western Hemisphere [GALLERY + VIDEO]
The rebuilding of the One World Trade Centre has been completed. Construction workers cheered as the final pieces of the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere were installed. One World Trade Center will stand at 1,776 feet (541 m) tall. Check out the impressive pictures.
The Views Of New York From The World Trade Center’s New Observation Deck Are Breathtaking [GALLERY]
The construction of the World Trade Center’s first tower is almost complete, and to build excitement, the New York Port Authority has offered a glimpse of the Big Apple from the 100th floor of the observation deck. And they are incredible, but that’s probably to be expected from the tallest building in the Western hemisphere, […]
Excellent Design Concept Imagines The Future Of Cape Town’s Unfinished Bridge [VIDEO]
Students at CPUT have imagined what could be made of Cape Town’s infamous unfinished bridge above Port and Alfred Streets. Uploaded by YouTube user Oliver Hall, the lengthy blurb for the video reads: With careful planning in regards to the needs of the users, the possibilities of the site, and the requirements of the larger […]
Google Goes All Out With Their Radical New Offices In Tel Aviv [PICS]
Google set up new offices in Tel Aviv at the end of last year, putting any other cool office layout you have ever seen to shame. Going to work takes on a whole new meaning when you can spend your time in office space like this. Trees, picnic tables and a super tube are just […]
$1 Billion Taj Mahal Replica To Be Built In Dubai
Plans have been set in motion to build a $1 billion replica of India’s Taj Mahal, in Dubai. The ambitious project is part of an even bigger development which includes replicas of several other world famous structures.
Angry Chinese Say British-Designed Skyscraper Resemebles “Giant Underpants”
When the Suzhou Chinaing Real Estate Company commissioned British architecture practice RMJM to design The Gate to the East, they were hoping for the Eastern answer to Paris’s Arc de Triomphe. Instead, they found the £445 million skyscraper more closely resembled a pair of “giant underpants”.
China To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days
Broad Sustainable Building, a Chinese construction company, is aiming to assemble an 838m-tall building in Changsha, a city in southern China, beating the Burj Khalifa in Dubai by 10 metres. What’s more, they’re looking to build the thing – dubbed SkyCity One – in 90 days because, well, why not.
Guinness Turns Submarine Into Underwater Bar [PICS]
Branding! It’s good for you. Jump Studios, a London-based architecture firm, recently finished up the interior on a submarine for Guinness’ deep-sea bar, which plunged to the depths of the Baltic on its maiden voyage. The sub was commissioned to celebrate Guinness’ 250th anniversary. Take a look at the thing after the jump.
Epic Timelapse Of An Entire Hotel Built In Just 15 Days, Only In China [VIDEO]
China is at it again. When they’re not building war-machines, churning out electronics and manufacturing cars at the speed of light, they’re constructing 30-storey hotels in the time it usually takes to get your call answered by Telkom customer service.
Blueprints Of Apple’s Proposed New HQ – Inside The Mothership [PICS]
A few months ago Apple announced their plans for their new headquarters in the Silicon Valley, and submitted plans to the Cupertino City Council. The late Steve Jobs claimed the spaceship-like structure would be “the best office building in the world”, and judging by these recently released documents, he wasn’t kidding.
Flying Robots Build Six Metre Tower [VIDEO]
Hello, future. A group of autonomous flying robots – “quadcopters”- have been used in an installation by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology to construct a six metre tall tower out of 1 500 foam bricks. The robots are completely autonomous, with a networked computer vision system directing the placement of the bricks.