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Category / Architecture
December 7, 2020
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The World’s Longest Art Gallery

What has been touted as the world’s longest art gallery is somewhere you wouldn’t expect a metro in Sweden’s national capital Stockholm. It has 100 stations is 110 kilometres long and over 90 art installations by 150 artists which had been created starting in the 1950’s. There you’ll find stations each with different visual feasts decorated with...
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Architecture Art Culture
November 2, 2020
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Living on the edge! Victoria

This concept house by Victorian prefabricated architecture specialists Modscape takes high rise to a new level. Designed for a couple in mind this 5 storey home aptly entitled ‘Cliff House’ literally clings to one, you gain access through the carport on top (off course) and access different levels via lifts and the interior is kept minimal so not...
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Architecture Australia Victoria
October 26, 2020
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Secret studio under bridge

With space at a premium these days, people have to think outside the box (or should I say the bridge) to find a place to relax, focus and escape the hustle and bustle, so what better way, than to make your own hidden studio under a bridge. Well that’s what self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas has done in the Spanish...
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Architecture Design
October 22, 2020
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Hey Jude, Adelaide Hills CABN

“Relax. Rediscover. Reconnect.” that’s the motto of CABN cabins from South Australia. Set on 180 acres of scrubland close to a conservation park in the picturesque Adelaide Hills this is a perfect way to  have a “off-grid tiny house getaway experience in Australia”. Their first cabin named Jude after the founders mother, which embodies her qualities and...
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Adelaide Architecture Australia Hotels Nature
October 15, 2020
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Can’t believe its not butter…Melbourne Loft

Nestled in West Melbourne is this stunning minimalist Loft that used be a Butter Factory. Designed by Melbourne architects Adrian Amore Architects it has curves to die for and a staircase that wouldn’t look out of place in a museum. Coupled with its monochromatic palette and minimal décor, butter would melt in its mouth. While looking super cool its also functional with two bedroooms,...
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Architecture Australia Melbourne
October 6, 2020
1623

The Joshua Tree House

No it’s no the new album cover for U2’s 1987 The Joshua Tree, it’s a house made of shipping contains in the Californian desert. With it’s shape representing the famed tree, it was designed by James Whitaker of Whitaker Studios for a studio producer and his wife. While we could whittle out all its specs and...
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Architecture
October 3, 2020
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Crete Ring House, ouáou! (wow in Greek)

Yasou! Nestled away on a Greek hillside in Agia Galini, Crete is this concept three-building compound by decaACHITECTURE. Started in 2012-13, the main house (the ring) has been completed and rest is yet to come. At quick glance it’s not your typical Greek house but exudes the best of Greek architecture. It is 165 nautical miles from the Sahara...
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Architecture Design Style
September 29, 2020
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Yellow Treehouse Restaurant

Remember when you were young and always wanted a tree house, well you can still live that dream, with this awe inspiring yellow pod, The Yellow Treehouse Restaurant in New Zealand. Constructed on a 40 metre high redwood tree and is 10 above the ground, it was part of a Yellow Pages marketing campaign. The 10...
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Architecture Restaurants
September 6, 2020
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Red Hill House, Canberra

Now if they’re building houses like this in Canberra, we might even move up there. Despite the freezing cold weather and politics it refreshing to  have a ray of sunshine from our capital city in the form of this stunning minimalist house with a singular approach to architecture, interiors and landscape. The Red Hill house designed...
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Architecture Australia Canberra
February 19, 2020
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Grand Designs meets Ferris Bueller

He’s back, that’s right, everyone’s favourite architectural host extraordinaire Kevin McCloud is touring Australia with his “The World According to Kevin” show. After many trips to Australia, he’s finally making his way to Tasmania (Wrest Point Casino, Tuesday 25th February). The most recent episode screened in Australia over the weekend was on North Cornwall couple Harry and...
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Architecture Australia Design International
June 7, 2019
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Heads Up, Cubby House Challenge Melbourne

‘Heads Up’ is just one of the entrants in the Cubby House Challenge at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. Designed (Heads Up) by Buildher Collective, Beirin Projects, Bellemo & Cat was just one of entrants in the annual Cubby House Challenge, organised by Kids Under Cover to tackle youth homelessness. Image: Jam3D.
Architecture Australia Melbourne
December 29, 2018
2488

Habitat 67

No this is not from the set of Blade Runner it’s Habitat 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Designed by Israeli/Canadian architect Moshe Safdie in 1976 for the pavilion for Expo 67, the World’s Fair (in which one of its main themes was ‘Housing’), it is a great example of Brutalist architecture. Originally containing 158 apartments this has now been...
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Architecture Culture
December 23, 2018
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The real Blade Runner 2049

For anyone that saw Blade Runner 2049 last year would have been blown away by the awe-inspiring cityscapes, and maybe thought oh well CGI again but no, a lot of this amazing scenery were miniatures or you could say ‘bigatures’. Created by Kiwi special effects company Weta Workshop, (co-founded by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson). Some...
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Architecture Art Design Entertainment
August 27, 2018
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Maybe you’ll like to dine with the fishes before sleeping with them

No this bizarre object is not a building that’s just toppled over in Italy, it’s actually set to be Europe’s first underwater restaurant. Currently being built in Norway for completion in early 2019 it’s imply called Under. Designed by Norwegian company Snøhetta it “is a tribute to the Norwegian coast and to Lindesnes – to the wild fauna of the...
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Architecture Design Food Restaurants Style
August 2, 2017
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There’s a hole, dear Liza…

Now you know you’ve had a bad day when you come back to this…well not really, it’s called Inversion and was artwork by sculptors Dan Havel and Dean Ruck of Houston Alternative Art. They altered two 1920’s houses  in Texas (scheduled to be demolished), owned by the Art League Houston that had used them for art classes and exhibitions for...
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Architecture Art