If architectural photography is close to you, the Arcaid Awards 2016 selection of the most beautiful architectural photographs will absolutely inspire you. Everyone else can also admire the architectural achievements through a photographic lens.
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Winter is coming! Temperatures are dropping (well, at least we hope they will) and adorable cabins you'd love to spend the winter in are mushrooming on Instagram. We have selected a few cabins that will make you want a real winter idyll.
Despite the trend of moving to big cities, people are returning to nature due to a stressful lifestyle. Research has shown that we want smaller buildings in contact with nature. The Slovenian company Smartdome Constructions answered this with Smartdome houses, modular and environmentally friendly domes that look like something from another planet or from a futuristic movie. Their advantage is that everyone can afford it, it can be easily implemented in any environment and adapted to current needs. They can be energy independent and require no bureaucracy. You do not need a building permit for installation.
A new broom will sing in the White House. Not only will most of the staff there be replaced, Donald Trump and Melania Trump will be able to significantly change the interior of the US presidential palace. Every current American president is allowed to decide on a partial renovation of the White House, the official residence of the American president. Donald and Melania Trump unexpectedly moved there with their son Barron, who now live in a luxurious apartment at the top of the Trump skyscraper in New York, which is furnished in the style of the Palace of Versailles (chandeliers, marble, candlesticks...). Time will tell how the White House will be decorated to the taste of the 45th American president - the style and identity of the presidential family and the administration is most evident in the Oval Office - but online pranksters on duty have already let their imaginations run free and imagined how White will look house when Donald Trump and his family move into it.
If you are a lover of books and architecture, or if you simply get excited about new, original ideas, take a look at the list of the most beautiful bookstores in the world. The most beautiful bookstores in the world are scattered all over the planet: from Argentina to China, and each of them is a creatively perfect place where books - many times man's best friends - are waiting to take the reader to their magical world that comforts, teaches, entertains and generally broadens our horizons.
Lately, new bivouacs have been growing like mushrooms after the rain in the Slovenian mountains. Let's remember. Recently, we got a phenomenal bivouac under Skuta, and a new bivouac II at Jezeri in the Julian Alps, and on Kanin, a vertically designed bivouac, located in the immediate vicinity of Dom Petr Skalar, has recently been attracting attention. Just like Skutin, he was also 'curved' by the design bureau OFIS Arhitekti. Nine people can sleep in the winter room.
Donald Trump owns many properties, including a rich collection of skyscrapers scattered around the world. Below, see the Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul's stunning skyscrapers that bear his name. Which one do you like the most?
Repairing roads and streets is expensive, the local authorities of the Primorski district in Russia's St. Therefore, Petersburg found it cheaper to tackle infrastructure repairs with the help of Photoshop and hire a graphic designer instead of a construction company. But the population quickly realized that the authorities used a trick when repairing the footpath, which was 'invented' by Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had the scenery of villages erected on the devastated and recently conquered territories along the banks of the Dnieper River during Catherine the Great's visit, in order to raised the importance of the newly conquered territories. The story of the digital Potemkin village spread like wildfire across Russia.
Although there is already a skyscraper in London, which was quickly renamed 'crystal phallus' and 'erotic pickle', this is apparently not an obstacle to the construction of another high-rise building, which in its shape resembles a male genital organ. With 67 floors, Spire London will be the tallest residential building in Western Europe, and because of its shape, it has already been given various names that insinuate the male genital organ.
On October 17, 2016, a pop-up apartment opened its doors at Dunajska cesta 177, furnished exclusively with Slovenian design products. We will be able to discover what is hidden in it until November 3, 2016. During this time, many events will also take place in the apartments. The home of Slovenian design is the successor and even more ambitious pop-up apartment project I Feel design, which briefly opened its doors in July in Berlin.
The Golden Pencil is the highest award in Slovenia in the field of architecture and landscape architecture. The Golden Pencil 2016 was awarded on Friday, October 16, 2016, on the occasion of Architects' Day at the Museum of Architecture and Design. This year, the commission chose the best of the 58 submitted projects and thus awarded four golden pencils.
In Dubai (where else!) they started building The Tower, which, when it is built, will be the tallest building in the world and will dethrone the skyscraper Burj Khalifa (Tower Khalifa), which was built in 2010 and is the title of the tallest building for a skyscraper Taken Taipei 101 back in 2008, when it was still growing. These days, the foundation stone of the futuristic tower, which will be built by 2020 or until the start of the world exhibition EXPO 2020, which will be hosted by Dubai.