Photo Finished: 9 Snappy Camera-Shaped Buildings
Yo dawg, these 9 camera-shaped buildings allow you to take selfies with your camera in front of buildings built to look like cameras. Now say “cheesy”! ...
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.
Jenga-Like Hotel Made of Stacked Shipping Containers
Shipping containers plastered in stark graphic branding are stacked in a Jenga-like configuration within a steel frame at the Hive-Inn, a concept hotel by OVA Studio. Individual units can easily be ...
Rad Rides: Nuclear Power Plant Turned into Amusement Park
The iconic central cooling tower has been turned into a swing ride and climbing wall, but the re-purposed complex as a whole features over a dozen attractions including rides, restaurants, bars ...
Camera-Shaped Cafe Offers Picture-Perfect Cups of Coffee
A giant two-story camera rises from the grass beside an ordinary suburban home in the hills of South Korea. The Dreamy Camera Cafe is housed in a re-creation of a vintage Rolleiflex, featuring ...
Fallen Starchitects: 7 Failures of Famous Architects
Even the world's most famous and celebrated architects have their failures, whether due to unforeseen consequences of an extraordinarily complex design or just plain shoddy construction. From the ...
Spiral Architecture: 12 Swirling Building & Bridge Designs
Ubiquitous in nature and mathematics, spirals are beautiful to look at and provide a structure that's strong and stable, so it's no surprise that they turn up so often in architecture, too. ...
Colorful Pop-Up: City Farm Storefront for Produce & Plants
This competition-winning design uses upcycled materials to frame a street-facing experience, in part through a fresh take on 'window shopping'. Its aim: to create a unique and ...
Calling Home: 9 Towering Smartphone-Shaped Buildings
Does your high-rise apartment or office tower look like a mobile phone? These ones do, and you can bet smartphone users inside them get REALLY good reception. ...
Living Staircase: Spiral Stairs Wrapped in Organic Greenery
Boldly curved and cantilevered into midair, these plant-wrapped stairs are designed to provide more than just a means of moving from one floor to another. Stepping onto them takes ...
12 Worthy Winners: 2013 World Architecture Festival Awards
Dynamic, surprising and visually stunning, the winners of the 2013 World Architecture Festival awards represent the very best in recent architecture across a range of categories, from hotels and ...
