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Whale-Shaped Mobile Garden Cleans Europe’s Rivers

Jan 14, 2010 // Published in Architecture, Ecological, Environmental art, design, and products
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Vincent Callebaut has created a whale-shaped mobile garden designed to drift through Europe’s rivers while purifying their waters. "The Physalia is a self-sufficient ecosystem that generates all the power it needs from the sun and works to reduce water pollution through bio-filtration," notes from Inhabitat. This project sounds like a good idea! Technical details about The ...

A Computer-Graphic Masterpiece!

Jan 08, 2010 // Published in 3D, Abstract, Architecture, Computer-Graphics, Video, Visual/Special Effects

Poetic and breathtaking!  It is absolutely amazing how the whole film is done in CG by Alex Roman. Titled "The Third & The Seventh," a movie  illustratrating "architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal." Developed with 3ds max, Vray, AfterEffects ...

The Underground House

Dec 23, 2009 // Published in Architecture, Ecological, Environmental art, design, and products
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A unique house buried under the earth in Vals, Switzerland. Designed by the architects of SeArch and Christian Müller. Notes about the project (by Inhabitat): (...) It’s difficult to imagine any new construction that wouldn’t impose on the beautiful landscape. So when the rare opportunity was granted to construct a new dwelling just a stone’s throw away ...

Optical Illusion in Backyard

Nov 19, 2009 // Published in 3D, Architecture, Ecological, Environmental art, design, and products, Flowers and Plants
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"Deformscape" is an outdoor architectual project by  Thom Faulders (founder of Faulders Studio). Notes about project by Faulders: Deformscape is an outdoor extension to a private dwelling in San Francisco. Situated in a tightly packed urban neighborhood, this limited space outdoor sculpture garden inherits a large tree, and uses this sole arboreal presence to establish a gravitational ...

The Ultra-Modern, Mini Opera House

Nov 18, 2009 // Published in Architecture, Building, Music
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An ultra-modern, mini and temporary opera space for the 2010 Munich Opera Festival. Architectual design by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Notes about the opera house from the architects: The task was to develop a temporary 300 seat Pavilion for the Munich Opera Festival 2010 with a multifunctional stage. Though being one of the smallest projects the Pavilion is one ...

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