Created by renowned trash artist HA Schult to raise awareness about polluted beaches, the "Save the Beach Hotel" was made from 12 tons of garbage gathered from European beaches in a few days.
Art installation took up residence outside the Vatican in June last year and is now on tour to raise awareness about Europe's trash-covered beaches, currently you can find the hotel in Madrid.
The Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani has hosted a lavish house-warming for his new 27-storey residence, believed to be the world's most expensive home.
This is the extravagant £630m ($1bn) home built by a billionaire Indian tycoon to house his family-of-four in Mumbai.
Namba Parks, a massive retail and office compund in Osaka, Japan, has an eight level rooftop garden that spans several city blocks and features tree groves, rock clusters, cliffs and canyons, lawns, streams, waterfalls, ponds and even space to grow veggies!
This thematic pavilion was proposed by the Austrian studio called Soma Architekten who created this beautiful complex.
Emulating the look of flowing water, the H2O building located in Barcelona, Spain, was created for the bottled water brand H2O. The architects from Axis Mundi of New York were behind this rippling sensation.
Qatar is one of the contenders to host the 2022 version of the event and though that does sound a long time away the architects have already turned in their concepts for the stadiums.
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The University of Karlsruhe's Institute of Industrial Design and Construction Output collaborated with the same school's Institute of Supporting Structure on the Roll It, a modular experimental housing prototype that can, yes, roll. there are a lot of problems to be overcome here, but as they say it is an 'experiment'.
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Based on the concept of the Japanese convenience store, 24 issey miyake shops combine inexpensive prices, a large variety of colours and frequent changes in the product lineup.
The miyake team wanted a new design concept for the 24 issey miyake shop in shibuya's parco shopping complex, which includes a store that specially features Miyake's new Bilbao bag.
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The House of Stone, made out of recycled stones,is designed by John Pawson. The word 'minimum' is translated here, not into poverty, but into premium components such as space, light and materials.
'Oyes' by dutch firm Hofman Dujardin architects has been created for the charity project in Cape Town organized by chair manufacturer Dietiker and AIT magazine. One hundred architecture and interior design offices across europe were selected to redesign the ‘ono’ chair produced by the company. For their proposal the chair is a model of a building with a height of 760m, an urban icon for Cape Town. While the 'ono' chair can be used by a maximum of two people, the 'Oyes' chair with a surface of 800.000m2 can host about 50.000 people. Four slim feet of 25x30m. Each foot will intervene in the existing urban fabric, connecting people from different areas. The charity auction to sell the ideas/chairs will take place in spring 2010.
The theme of the Expo is "Better City, Better Life", and is scheduled to run from May 1st until October 31, 2010. In recent months, large construction and renovation projects have dominated much of Shanghai, in preparation for becoming the World's stage on May 1st.
