We’ve always had a fascination with abandoned buildings. (Especially hotels! In fact, that’s our only draw to the Hollywood Tower of Terror at California Adventure, but we’re too wussy to go on the ride so we’re missing out. Although we’ve seen pics on Scouting New York which will have to suffice. We digress…) Anyway, the [...]
This hotel is getting a lot of press today, and we couldn’t help but post it as well. Above is a construction shot of Hotel Inntel Zaandam by WAM Architecten in the Netherlands. The hotel is made to look like a mass of houses typical of the region, “from a stately notary’s dwelling to workers’ [...]
We stumbled on this today and thought it was hilarious. Nothing beats kids’ forts made from couch cushions (and other various household materials) paired with serious architecture criticism. Here’s the review for the above photo, one of our favorites: The crisp, orthogonal structure is, in a way, camouflaged by the informality of the landscaping. While [...]
We love reading Scouting New York, a blog by the once-anonymous Nick Carr, a film location scout in NYC. A couple of days ago he posted some amazing pictures of 570 Lexington—originally built for RCA-Victor, then sold to GE, and finally donated to Columbia University. The building is an Art Deco-lover’s dream with beautiful details [...]
Somewhere in Detroit photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune are encasing an abandoned house in ice. The “architectural installation,” Ice House Detroit, is being blogged about from start (fundraising) to finish (disassembling the house and recycling the usable materials). Their purpose is to bring attention to the foreclosure problem in Detroit (Holm estimates “nearly [...]
This past weekend we saw a dozen houses on the Austin Modern Home Tour. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and are glad we’ve been exercising because that was a lot of work! (Tip to home tour goers world-wide: wear comfortable and easily removable shoes.) Although several houses made an impression, none stuck with us like 2900 [...]
Continuing with our theme of things that trick your eye is this log cabin-like structure. Although it appears to be a large, very well-stacked wood pile, it is in fact a moveable study/workspace designed by Piet Hein Eek for a musician. Not only does it offer a new take on a traditional log cabin, it [...]
The brilliant and beautiful short “The Third & The Seventh” from Alex Roman is a surreal look at movement, light and architecture. On top of that it was entirely computer-generated and is some of the best CG work we’ve ever seen. Take a moment to relax and enjoy it. (via Boing Boing)