Posts Tagged ‘ Architecture ’
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 [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
