While winter is relentlessly knocking on our doors, the presence of the sun's rays is becoming an increasingly valuable commodity and an even more important factor for our good mood. Although the power of sunlight on mood has been documented, not much time has been devoted to research on home design that maximizes the power of natural light, especially for health benefits. The Photon Space is a modular construction of residential architecture, designed specifically to allow more access to natural light, while providing instant privacy at the touch of a switch.
Architecture & Interior
The Al Noor Tower will be finally built next year in Morocco, making it the tallest skyscraper in Africa with its height of 540 meters. When his photos flooded the web, everyone started wondering if he doesn't look too much like the famous Sauron's Tower from the Lord of the Rings trilogy? What do you think?
The desert, unrelenting and harsh, is certainly not the place you imagine your dream home to be. Bev Doolittle and her husband imagine it differently, who decided to buy four acres of dry land and rock outside California's Joshua Tree National Park and build The Desert House, one of the most stunning and unique pieces of residential architecture we've ever seen. It was for sale a few days ago, today it is sold.
Living in a houseboat on the water can be quite elegant. And also "sexy". We can get that incomparable feeling of freedom, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. We've put together a selection of twelve houses on the water that you certainly wouldn't want to miss.
In the past year, quite a few residential neighborhoods were designed, which strive to improve the living conditions of the community of residents by adding greenery and optimizing room lighting, as well as creating new types of dense construction in compact settlements. The website Designboom recently presented a list of the best neighborhood designs produced in 2014, which you can view in the present article.
The rock-shaped mountain hut "Antoine", located in the heart of the Swiss Alps, is a tribute to the mountaineering experience and the unforgiving winter.
The Chester project, designed by two designers living in Berlin, presents a new revolutionary material - quilted wood.
In September, Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson became obscenely rich. His computer game Minecraft was bought by Microsoft for 1.93 billion. In December, however, he became the owner of a megavilla in Beverly Hills, California, which Beyoncé and Jay Z were able to view. Among the rappers, only Dr. could compete with the Swede. Dre, who, like Persson, made an outrageous fortune selling Beats by Dr Dre headphones.
On the Croatian island of Krk, the local architectural office Turato Architecture completed the upgrade of the modern summer residence Gumno, which, as an exceptional vantage point, is perfect for observing the beautiful surrounding nature.
The museums, which opened in 2014, are the result of long-term cooperation of the best architects, designers and artists. Thanks to them, the world is richer for quite a few exceptional cultural junctions from this year onward, and the Designboom portal has chosen 10 of those that are true excesses - especially in the architectural sense.
A gift idea that will make you jealous. Christmas is approaching at the speed of light and the question that arises is what to buy the person who has everything? Answer: nothing. A big and nicely wrapped box of nothing. You can actually buy a box full of air from youneednothing.com. For everyone who already has everything. Well, at least from a material point of view.
If you are a true fan of the ultimate spa experience, then you will be delighted with the sauna built on a calm lake in Canada.