This is probably the most ingenious inventions to come out this year! This would totally make the lives of a lot of people so much easier!!
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Heritance Kandalama by Geoffrey Bawa
“The Heritance Kandalama hotel was built by Sri Lanka’s greatest architect, Geoffrey Bawa. He began his career as an architect at the late age of 37. However in a career that continued for nearly 40 years, he came to be regarded as the most prolific and respected architect Sri Lanka has ever produced.
Bawa was a genius at blending buildings with their natural environment, interconnecting outside spaces with the inside.
At Heritance Kandalama he created an austere building, which derives its beauty from the surrounding landscape. The simple geometry and lack of decoration of the building, helps to highlight the natural environment. When he first built the hotel, he told hotel staff that one day it would peer out from under a canopy of lush vegetation. The staff didn’t fully grasp what he was describing. Ten years later, after Geoffrey Bawa was long gone, the staff say he had described the hotel exactly as it is today. The Heritance Kandalama is the living embodiment of Geoffrey Bawa’s architectural vision.
Bawa’s buildings are not just bricks and mortar, but the expression of intangible emotions, and the unique experience of living within his vision.
His best known works are “Lunuganga”, his own garden in Bentota that he designed over a 40-year period, the Parliament of Sri Lanka, the Madurai Club in India, Heritance Ahungalle, and Heritance Kandalama.”
http://www.heritancehotels.com/kandalama/browse.php?catId=126
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Anto Gloren, Sayali Athale, Pune
HP Skyline 2020 Online Competition
http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/winners_announced_in_hp_skyline_2020_online_competition/
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Winners Announced in HP Skyline 2020 Online Competition National Winner Participants Jury Comments Sen Kapadia : “New image of future cities with high density but loose clustering. Very sociable and humane living. Circulation needs clarification. This seems the ideal direction for changing the skyline, not visual but really culturally and ecologically sustainable. Variable elevations of different clusters promise also a future visual delight. Vary attainable proposal without demand on high technology. Here is a winner!” http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/winners_announced_in_hp_skyline_2020_online_competition/
Anto Gloren, Sayali Athale, Pune
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Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize:
Maarten van Dooren RDL Eindhoven
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“This Traditional Architecture House located at Bali an island in Indonesia which known as best scenery island.an architect of traditional architecture house by an owner John Hardy as jewelry designer not architect but he was done this task like famous architect.This traditional architecture house not only functionally as a residence but at store which an owner can display their silver jewelry in this house. This main house completed in 1997. Traditional Architecture House featured by foot kitchen, master bedroom,rain forest shower,copper walls,swimming pool etc.”
http://www.architecturesdesign.com/2009/08/23/traditional-architecture-house-by-john-hardy-in-bali/
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(via photourbanism)
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Aleksander (Olek) Novak-Zemplinski The Haven - Nausori, Fiji
http://biolinia.com/master.html?http://biolinia.com/news.php
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Solar Roadways welcome to the future. http://solarroadways.com/intro.shtml
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(via boyhood, fuckyeahglobetrotters)
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(by Amir Mukhtar)
Kutan, Kashmir, Pakistan
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Pershing Square and the Biltmore Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles, 1955. Note that Pershing Square was a lush, sprawling oasis in the middle of the city, not the concrete-covered parking structure/”park” it is now. Thank your city officials and landscape architects Ricardo Legorreta and Laurie Olin for the current grass-and-foliage-free version of the park.
(Second Note: The version of Pershing Square depicted above was opened, however, after Los Angeles decided to demolish the original tree-filled expanse to make way for the underground parking garage. Although this version is a bit janky and I greatly prefer the original, at least they left lawn. Can’t say the same about the park today.)
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“We had heard of Battleship Island (in Japanese, Gunkanjima) before ever coming to Nagasaki, but had never considered sneaking onto the ghost island. It had been closed since the 1970’s, and now sat off the coast of Nagasaki City, quiet and haunting. Going there is supposedly punishable by a one month stay in a Japaneseprison as well as deportation. We have never considered the possibility, though there was something romantic and adventurous about the notion. This changed one week, when in a conversation with others in the area we learned that some people had gone and gotten away with it. It wasn’t even difficult, they told us. Suddenly, the forbidden fruit of the Ghost Island seemed just within grasp, and we knew we wanted to try.
The easiest way to sneak into Hashima, we were told, is to go to the closest neighboring island, Takashima. From Takashima, you pay someone with a boat to ferry you over and look the other way. We decided to go for it. …”
http://www.weirdworm.com/sneaking-into-hashima-japans-battleship-island-ghost-town/