Treehugger has an interesting article about a new type of hotel. The entire hotel is built using stackable prefab rooms.
The rooms are the size of a standard shipping container. They are built in China and shipped over to the west, currently the UK, where they are stacked up to build a hotel. Each room comes with a complete with a bathroom and windows. The only thing the new hotel owners need to do, is add the furnishings and hook up the plumbing and electric.
Travelodge, the company making these pods, sees lots of potential uses. Specifically for temporary hotels for festivals and events. Ship a stack of the hotel pods in to a location and hook them up to the local power grid. Much faster than building a traditional hotel. And when the event is finished, unhook them and ship the pods off to another location.
When I was a kid, I had a computer game called SimCity. It was fun game where you built and managed a small city. You supplied power, zoning, roads, and utilities. As your city grew, you would start to run out of land area to keep the growth going. That was when a futuristic type of building would become available. The arcology. basically it was a city within a single building.
Well, when I first saw the pictures for this new building that was what I thought of. The Crystal Island is the latest in a series of major construction projects being built in Moscow. When completed it will contain 27 million square feet of floor space. It will be over 1500 ft. tall and will feature 900 apartments, 3000 hotel rooms, an international school for 500 students, cinemas, a theater, sports complex and a parking garage for over 16,500 vehicles.
Follow the link for more pictures and details. World’s Biggest Building Coming to Moscow: Crystal Island
On the shores of Zadar, Croatia there is a unique architectural installation. Nikola Basic and a team of master stone carvers built an organ that is played by the rising and falling tides.
What appear to be simple steps, actually have pipes tuned to provide music embedded inside. As the water rises, air is pushed through the pipes and produces music.
Thorncrown chapel was originally conceived by Jim Reed, a retired schoolteacher. Jim originally bought the land to build his retirement home. But he was so overwhelmed by the natural beauty of the location, that he decided to build a chapel there instead.So he consulted an architect, E. Fay Jones and commissioned him to design and build a structure that would compliment the natural landscape. Thorncrown chapel was the result.The building was completed in 1980 and is open to the public. So if you are ever in the Eureka Springs, Arkansas area, you should go check it out.
Treehugger has an interesting article about a new type of hotel. The entire hotel is built using stackable prefab rooms.
Well, when I first saw the pictures for this new building that was what I thought of. The Crystal Island is the latest in a series of major construction projects being built in Moscow. When completed it will contain 27 million square feet of floor space. It will be over 1500 ft. tall and will feature 900 apartments, 3000 hotel rooms, an international school for 500 students, cinemas, a theater, sports complex and a parking garage for over 16,500 vehicles.
