The Fairytale Hotel (Zaandam)

Unusual hotel in The Netherlands

Architectural studio WAM Architecten has finished works on hotel which is constructed by absolutely fantastic style. Besides a bright coloring and furnish, the building makes strange impression because of the form of the design similar to the whole heap at home.

Inntel hotel in Zaandam, The Netherlands

The project is called as Inntel hotel, the building facade is built from set of the wooden green facades typical for given region.

Hotel in Zaandam (The Netherlands)

The 11-storeyed 40-metre building can place visitors in 160 apartments. In hotel there will be a conference hall and cosy cafe.

The New Middelfart Savings Bank

The Friendly Interface

The effective design from an architectural bureau 3XN for Middelfart Savings Bank has coincided with ambitions of customers which dream of a new office.

Unique Hi-tech Roof

Among requirements — high level of comfort and qualitative architectural realization. The extreme covering of a roof exists as visual focus, representing huge, elegant wooden structure with infinite number of opening.

Bank in Middelfart

Architects believe, that the design of a roof will allow to create comfortable and friendly atmosphere for employees of bank.

The unusual bridge in Maribor

In a city in the east of Slovenia, second-large in the country, the tender for building of the foot bridge has taken place. With the offer the studio “Ja Studio” has acted.

Walks on waves

150 metre bridge is suitable for walks on foot and... on a bicycle, — especially, all bicycle walks will be really similar "walks on waves".

Bridge by «Ja Studio»

Because of a finding nearby “the serious bridge”, architects have assumed, that the new bridge should be more creative, therefore appearance should prevail over function.

The house of the Italian photographer

The big window in this house is simultaneously both a wall, and the screen for a projector. All it was required to photographer Cellina von Mannstein, to the customer of a building.

The architect of project Peter Pichler

Unusual Italian Interior

In the house there will be a studio of the photographer and premises. To create on the ground floor a terrace, the two-storeyed inhabited block has been shifted.

New interpretation of wall clocks

The designer from Hong Kong Leo Yiu has suggested to change a little representation of inhabitants about what should be wall clocks in office and official bodies.

Nextime has bought the patent

The manufacturer of clocks company Nextime with pleasure has got at the designer idea of a dial with the cut off lateral part which allows to suspend conveniently them to a direct plane.

Clocks for office

The Architecture With a Grin

Unusual Illumination

In Sydney will celebrate the Chinese New year, having placed two huge orange tigers executed in style origami, in city center. The project is developed architectural company LAVA, Laboratory for Visionary Architecture.

Orange Tigers in Sydney

As is known — 2010 of the Tiger; besides, origami concerns China. Dimensions of an original figure: 2,5m in height, 7m at length. Tigers are similar to huge lanterns — thus authors have decided to unite design and technologies, the East and the West.

Figures are made of processed materials and highlighted by special economical illumination. Tigers will sit on the area before Customs from February, 11th till March, 14th.

Symbol of illusory love

The best friends to the girl — brilliants, — magnificent blonde Merilin sang once. The world has changed, girls and even brilliants already others have changed.

Real brilliant

The Icelandic designer, Sruli Recht has made the proposal to true gentlemen; that unique, unique blonde in the world which is preferred by you, should highly appreciate this rough and the beautiful, real complete set is more tremendous. The ring is a basis for three elements, three not faceted brilliants of different shades.

Crude brilliant

Ring basis — white gold, 10 carat, processed manually. Stones — a black brilliant, 3,53 carat, a white brilliant, 1,88 carat, a yellow brilliant, 1,44 carat. Each complete set is unique. The ring can be got together with an original box.

Temporary Pavilion For the Hirshhorn Museum

Hirshhorn Museum (Washington)

Hirshhorn Museum soon will cardinally change appearance, and without especial and cardinal changes. The New York architects from bureau Diller Scofidio + Renfro will add an existing complex with two easy structures in the form of blue spheres which will allow a museum to open additional spaces during a season. The sphere on a roof precisely reminds eggs on a museum of El Salvador of the Distance.

The Unusual Museum in Washington

In one of spheres the audience on 1,000 visual places will take places. Through transparent walls of a sphere spectators can enjoy not only a show, but also possibility to peep for the visitors of a museum walking on galleries. In the friend, a smaller sphere on the size there will be a cafe.

Estimated cost of realization of 5 million dollars, now the project is in a stage of study of the concept. Under plans, pavilions will open in 2011 year. However, if statements Fine Arts Commission) be required and National Capital Planning Commission, realization will be postponed for couple of years.

Huge Pipes, As an Architectural Element

Architectural Factory of Pipes

The building for company T Bailey Inc is made as factory expansion on manufacture of steel pipes. The architect of the project — Tom Kundig from studio Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects — used huge pipes as a design element.

We Make the Pipes!

Total area of office of 1,100 sq. m. For construction of office architects used directly that product which is made by the customer. Visitors will get to a building on huge pipes. In a huge vertical pipe the large fan which will condition air at the main office is placed. The conditioner will be charged by energy of the sun.

The interior corresponds to stylistics. The concrete floor, open structure, a covering minimum. The roof inclination will direct streams of rain water to a garden, for watering of trees growing there.

City-temple, Angkor Wat, Cambodia

This city-temple — so is translated the name — is the greatest religious building in the world. The building has been constructed during the period about 1112-52 in honour of a Buddhist deity. The central tower in height of 55 metres is surrounded by stone galleries (length of 800 metres) and frescos on religious themes.

Harmless houses, the Wales, England

One guy, by means of the father and other relatives, has constructed this house for the family. Thus, they have tried to be as much as possible friendly in relation to the nature. The harmonious life with the nature and the world, and with itself, filling of the life by simple things, use only necessary technologies was their purpose.

When the guy all have asked, what for it, he has answered: “It's healthy! To live the life, in the way which is pleasant to you also to you to liking. Following to our dreams keeps our souls live”.

Puzzling World Lake Wanaka, Otago, New Zealand

In new Zealand, for additional entertainment of tourists, have constructed here such house — Stuart Landsborough’s Puzzling World.

In 1973 the building has been constructed simply for entertainment, but after have decided "to apply kindly in an economy". Here have made cafe where to visitors suggest to collect a puzzle, there are rooms with optical illusions and other entertaining thingummies.

Upside Down House, Szymbark, Poland

It is the house the Polish businessman and philanthropist Daniel Czapiewski has constructed.

This original architectural resume of an epoch of communism and a real condition of the world.

Many tourists, coming to look sight, complain, on an easy nausea and dizziness even after several minutes of standing near to this object.

Cubic houses

The original idea of these cubic houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands) has arisen in 1970th years.

Piet Blom has developed pair of such houses which then have been constructed in Rotterdam.

When to the architect the order for design of houses has arrived, he has decided to use cubic idea. One more nuance of building consists that each house reminds an abstract tree for this reason all village turns to wood.

Longaberger

Office of the building company Longaberger (Ohio, USA) which are based in Newark, the State of Ohio, should be the strangest office in the world...

Building of a building by the area more than 18,000 square metres, a copy of the well-known basket for picnic, cost $30 million, proceeded the whole two years. Many experts tried to convince the head of the company to cancel the plans, concerning building, and to choose more habitual form, but he has not wished it to make, thanks to what, we can contemplate this creation personally.