Monday: Modern in Nature
Sleeping Cabin by Tim Prentice
Mr. Prentice is known for making kinetic sculptures (that are absolutely incredible BTW) and architecture (Prentice & Chan - 1965). This is the only digital image I can find online of a cabin he created, with no additional information. I find this structure to be magical in a lot of different ways, but mostly because it reminds me of the many childhood summers I spent in Minnesota and it’s amazing pine forests. This automatically gets filed into my long list of things to build one day.
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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | Kingdom Towe | Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is pleased to announce that it is designing Kingdom Tower, to be the world’s tallest building, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea.
At over 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and a total construction area of 530,000 square meters (5.7 million square feet), Kingdom Tower will be the centerpiece and first construction phase of the Kingdom City development on a 5.3 million-square-meter site in north Jeddah. The tower’s height will be at least 173 meters (568 feet) taller than the world’s current tallest building, Dubai’s 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa, which was designed by Adrian Smith while at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Kingdom Tower will feature a Four Seasons hotel, Four Seasons serviced apartments, Class A office space, luxury condominiums and the world’s highest observatory.
Design development of the tower is under way, with construction to begin imminently. Foundation drawings are complete and the piling for the tower is currently being tendered. Kingdom Tower will cost approximately $1.2 billion to construct, while the cost of the entire Kingdom City project is anticipated to be $20 billion.
SOURCE | 11.05.2013 | 20.44
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/08/02/first-image-of-worlds-tallest-buildingto-be-built-in-jeddah/
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via: murraymitchell
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New York City | vision for Grand Central Terminal | Foster + Partners
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while Foster + Partners think simply increasing capacity is the way to improve New York’s Grand Central Terminal, architecture firm SOM has proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers
SOURCE | 11.05.2013 | 18.05
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/19/foster-partners-present-vision-for-grand-central-terminal/
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New York City | floating observation deck over Grand Central Terminal | SOM
while Foster + Partners think simply increasing capacity is the way to improve New York’s Grand Central Terminal, architecture firm SOM has proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers
SOURCE | 11.05.2013 | 17.56
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/23/som-promotes-floating-observation-deck-over-grand-central-terminal/
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Abandoned Star Wars Set in the Desert
“No More Stars” showcases the backdrop of Luke Skywalker’s home on the fictional desert planet Tatooine.
what?? they just left it in the desert? can we please go there???
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national museum of afghanistan | matteo cainer architects
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paris and london-based firm matteo cainer architects have produced the ‘timeless cube’, a proposal for the national museum of
afghanistan international competition. the construction of the afghan museum will celebrate the richness of the nation’s cultural
heritage and the spirit of its peoples. in a nation devastated by war, the wealth of its cultural background and the spirit of its
peoples are embodied here. in spite of the years of conflict and turmoil, the underlying strengths of the country remain intact,
embedded in the earth and rising from it.
SOURCE | 09.05.2013
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Herzog de Meuron - Dominus Winery, Yountville CA 1998. Three tiers of gabions hold rocks in varying sizes, creating a somewhat abstract classical hierarchy of scale while providing a thermal skin that combats the regions extreme temperatures. Photos © Margherita Spiluttini.
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Oscar Niemeyer - Casa Das Canoas (architect’s own home), Rio de Janeiro 1951. Via, 2.
i will be at this house in 3 days!
