Amazon Biosphere: Retailer Gets Glass Dome Headquarters
How much more creative could you be if you were working in a stunning faceted glass dome every day? Some lucky Amazon workers will get to find out, as the City of Seattle's design panel has ...
Category: Offices & Commercial
Love it or hate it, work is what we do during the day most of the days of the week, but it sure is nicer working in something like one of these stunning offices, stores, hotels, restaurants and bars from around the world. From cozy artist alcoves to lofty open offices, here are some of the most amazing places you could hope to get the job done.
Floors So Vain: The World’s Ten Tallest Vanity Heights
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH for short) has coined the term “vanity height” to describe the empty, unoccupied space atop the world's tallest towers. Here are the top ...
Storefront Transformer: Magic Box Reprograms Empty Space
From urban blight to versatile site, one modular cube can convert unused storefronts of New York City into flexible destinations - community workshops one day, performance spaces or pop-up shops ...
Word Worship: Church Converted to Awe-Inspiring Bookstore
This stunning 15th-century Dominican church is dedicated to much more than just one book - it contains thousands of them, in fact, stacked row upon row in a modern three-story addition. Located ...
Indoor Skydiving Inside Concrete Silos & Cargo Containers
Take your pick between a pair of once-abandoned silos: one lets you explore nearly 100 vertical feet of underwater space with hidden caverns, while the other suspends you in virtual free fall, ...
20 Million Sq Ft: World’s Biggest Building Opens in China
Night never comes to this massive complex newly constructed in China. Complete with its own artificial sun (as well as beaches and waves), the world's largest structure is not a skyscraper but a ...
LEGO House: Experience Center Made of Interlocking Blocks
Fans wanting to fully experience the world of LEGO are sure to marvel at this newly-revealed hometown headquarters - the whole complex is being build up like a giant stack of interlocked ...
Kim Jong Il Leaves an Unusual Architectural Legacy
Started in 1987 and still not complete, North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel is perhaps its most potent architectural symbol, and an odd legacy for an odd and secretive leader. The 105-floor, ...
Floating Egg-Shaped Office is a Self-Sustaining Work Space
A highly unusual houseboat bobs on the surface of the River Beaulieu in Hampshire, UK. 'Exbury Egg' is a floating, mobile live-in laboratory used to study the wildlife of the estuary. Made of ...
Ground, Up! Curved Green Sky Gardens Wrap Tower Hotel
The best of both worlds: guests at this hotel get to enjoy skyscraper-high views and still experience layers of intensive greenery on virtually all levels. A series of sleek towers rises ...
