travelingcolors:

Bird’s eye view of Luang Prabang | Laos (by kees straver)

archimodels:

© renzo piano - modern wing at the art institute of chicago - usa - 2009

wilddirt:

cabinporn:

Whangapoua Beach House on Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Designed by Ken Crosson of Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects.

Submitted by Nick Wallen.

I love that the doors go up and then the glass doors can swing open. Amazing! - AK

fabriciomora:

architectural model 

rhamphotheca:

These Beautiful Bridges Are Just For Animals

by Jess Zimmerman

If we’re going to keep putting roads in the middle of their habitats, animals are sometimes going to need to cross the road. But it’s better for everyone involved if they don’t have to push a button and wait for the light to change, because they don’t have thumbs and nine times out of 10 they’ll just careen into the side of your car. Which is why some highways have overpasses built specifically for animals like deer, elk, and grizzly bears.

Nobody teaches moose pedestrian etiquette like “look both ways,” but they figure out pretty quickly that crossing the terrifying asphalt river is safer if you take the beautiful grassy bridge. That’s just my guess at a moose’s internal life, but there’s data too: In Banff National Park in Canada, animals have used the six overpasses and 35 underpasses more than 200,000 times since monitoring began in 1996…

(read more: Grist.org)

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images:

Top - Highway A50, Netherlands (photo: Niels Verheul)

BL - France.     BR - Banff, Alberta, Canada (photo: Joel Sartore)

tr-4vel:

define—reality:

Reine | Lofoten (by Christian Bothner)

vacilandoelmundo:

Haraz Mountains, Yemen

acidadebranca:

ARCHITECTURAL COLOR SKETCHES | 515

architectural-review:

Harvey Ferrero (Architectural Design 63 November 1993)

visitheworld:

Crystal cave island on Boracay, Philippines (by dr_tr).

subtilitas:

Kengo Kuma - Z58 office building, Shanghai 2006.

acidadebranca:

ARCHITECTURAL COLOR SKETCHES | 478

drawingarchitecture:

The Cult of the Infinite by Isaac Barraclough / via

czar4curves:

luv it

alapiseira:

PLAN | 281 | guggenheim museum bilbao | Frank Gehry | source

devilentejas:

alecshao:

Ran Ortner - Swell, 2006 - oil on canvas

wandrlust:

Casa Marbrisa, Acapulco, Mexico, 1973 — John Lautner

fuckyeahbrutalism:

“System 2000” Prefabricated Terraced House (Project), Begun 1964

(Jochen Brandi, Peter Schawanitz, Kurt Duwe, Hans Gladischefski, Gerhard Mietzner, Gebhard Schramm)