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    Null Stern’s hotel with no walls allows panoramic views of the Swiss Alps

    Guests are invited to sleep under the stars in this open-air hotel, which is located 6,463 feet above sea level in the mountains of Graubünden. The Swiss Alps room has no walls, roof or bathroom – and is made up ...
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    Punta Sirena Hotel / WMR Arquitectos

    Architects WMR Arquitectos Location Curanipe, Pelluhue, Maule Region, Chile Project Area 1200.0 m2 Project Year 2014 Photographs Sergio Pirrone Manufacturers B&P, Behr, Cerecita, Indalum, Scanavini, Steelock, carbonileo From the architect. Punta Sirena Hotel is intended primarily for kitesurf water sport, as recreation. ...
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    Bamboo Building Made from Hundreds of Pinwheels Demonstrates the Power of Human Energy

    The 2016 Triumph Pavilion at the Museum Gardens in Bethnal Green, London has just been revealed. “Energy Pavilion” is a dynamic and interactive bamboo structure inspired by the pinwheel, the classic child’s toy. Designed by Five Line Projects, the inspirational ...
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    LIAG Architects Design Energy Saving Art Storage Facility

    LIAG Architects has unveiled their design for a new art storage building. Commissioned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the aim of the project was to create a large open space, while simultaneously meeting other needs such as protecting art that can’t be exposed to daylight, controlling ...
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    This Swirling Seoul Skyscraper is Wrapped with the Client’s Fingerprint

    Talk about personalizing your space: architect Moon Hoon designed a residential tower with a swirling facade modeled after the owner’s fingerprint. The strange-looking structure is slated for construction in Seoul and will house a residence for a South Korean actor. The building’s lower floors ...
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    Pyramid House by Juan Carlos Ramos

    One would have to imagine that, as an architect, working with rectangles and cubes would get boring after a while. That certainly seemed to be a motivating factor in Juan Carlos Ramos’Modern Pyramid House. Put together and submitted as a ...
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    Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop’s kindergarten is designed as a large set of steps

    Tokyo studio Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop created stepped levels inside this nursery in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture to form a large, open space across the sloping site. The Hakusui Nursery School in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, features a glazed exterior with a series ...
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    Watch this timelapse of the largest living wall in North America being made

    Vancouver-based company Green Over Grey, designed and installed a huge living wall named ‘Mountains & Trees, Waves & Pebbles’, for the Guildford Town Centre mall in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Often we just see the finished design, which is fully ...
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    There’s a floating sauna on a lake in Seattle

    goCstudio have designed the wa_sauna, a privately owned sauna, designed and built to be used year round on Seattle’s Lake Union.   The 240 square foot sauna is a registered vessel, powered by an electric trolling motor with three 12-volt batteries, and ...