Art is the expression of creativity and imagination, exercised in such a way that it culminates in a perceptible work. Architecture is the art, practice or profession of designing and constructing buildings, open areas, communities and other constructions. Bellow is an understanding of the motivations behind one's thoughts or behavior on architectural design.
1. Mountain penthouse
An architectural oddity situated atop a 26-story Beijing skyscraper (seen in a photo taken on Aug. 13) was declared illegal by code enforcement officials after several years of neighborhood balking.
The eccentric creator is Dr. Zhang Biqing, a founder of a chain of Chinese medicine clinics. Over six years, Biqing has spent $130,000 to envelope his rooftop home into a "mountain retreat" made of imitation rocks dotted with trees and shrubbery.
Neighbors, who have endured years of construction disruptions, believe the unusual urban abode is affecting the building's integrity. While residents who live under the extravagant penthouse have dealt with damages to pipework and walls, Biqing says he was just trying to make the building look nicer.
The mountainous additions to the apartment have been ordered to be demolished within 15 days.
2. Harvest Dome 2.0
When it comes to staging 'performance architecture' on NYC waterways, the second time's truly a charm. Harvest Dome 2.0, a giant sphere made from discarded umbrellas, is now bobbing merrily along at Inwood Hill Park Inlet.
A floating geodesic orb made from 450 wrecked umbrella skeletons supported by a buoyant ring composed of more than 100 solar LED-embedded two-liter plastic soda bottles. Measuring 24-by-18-feet, the dome — a work of “performance architecture”
3. Maya façade
An enormous, elaborately decorated Maya façade has been uncovered in Guatemala on the outside of a mysterious ancient building that archaeologists are trying to explore.
Grave robbers came close to finding the 26-foot-long (8 meters) and 6.5-foot-high (2 m) stucco relief before archaeologists got there. The 1,400-year-old carvings were discovered last month as excavators dug up a tunnel left open by looters at the site of Holmul — an ancient Maya city in the Peten region of Guatemala.
4. Bryan Cranston's energy beach home
Bryan Cranston's new net-zero energy beach home features solar, recycled materials, and one awesome automated car lift.
Some of the green features in the modest 2,450 square foot, 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath house include radiant heating, solar panels, solar hot water, and sustainable, reusable materials. One neat feature I’ve not seen in green homes before was also the installation of a automated car lift that allows two vehicles to park in a traditional one space garage – a savings of 200 sq ft.
5. Cardboard Cathedral
Located a few blocks from the semi-demolished ChristChurch Cathedral in Latimer Square, Ban’s A-frame style structure with a capacity allowing for 700 parishioners was built from timber, steel, and 98 polyurethane and flame retardant-coated cardboard tube-encased beams weighing 1,100 pounds each. Topped with a polycarbonate roof, decked with striking triangular stained glass windows etched with images from the original cathedral's rose window, and anchored by walls formed by eight recycled shipping containers, the concrete-floored Cardboard Cathedral will also serve as an event space, concert hall, and de facto tourist destination.
6. The Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy
The Saugerties Lighthouse, an 1869 landmark-turned-B&B in New York's Hudson Valley.
Operated by the Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy, the bed and breakfast is open to guests from Thursdays through Sundays year-round and includes two second-floor guestrooms with double beds that share a first-floor bathroom and common kitchen. There’s also a third bedroom that now functions as a small museum open to overnight guests and visitors on scheduled tours. The sweeping views of the Hudson and the Catskill Mountains enjoyed from the rooms are stunning to say the least.
7. Tiny apartments
The trend that started with a few hardcore environmentalists has spread to urban hipsters who are gleefully ditching their stuff.
The smaller your living space is, the lower your heating and cooling costs are. Not only that, but more compact spaces also encourage a more mindful approach to consumption – forcing inhabitants to whittle down their belongings to those things that they only need and use. What’s fascinating, however, is that this trend is now reaching well beyond the ethically driven hardcore environmentalist. Tiny homes are becoming decidedly mainstream — at least as far as hip, city-dwelling singles are concerned.
8. Beer Can House
Houston's landmark Beer Can House is a monument to recycling. The project began in 1968 when Milkovisch, an upholsterer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, began embedding thousands of marbles, rocks, and metal scraps into concrete and wood to create an artificial landscape to replace the lawn and garden.
"Ripley's Believe It or Not" estimated that more than 50,000 cans were saved from the landfill in this monument to recycling. That’s an estimated six-pack a day over the course of 20 years; neighbors and his wife, Mary, are said to have helped in this noble effort (someone had to do it, after all).
9. Shipping Containers Home design
"Cargotecture" refers to structures made partially or entirely of recycled shipping containers. There are millions of shipping containers at ports across the country just waiting to be recycled into relocatable, durable, securable and sustainable buildings that become homes, businesses and school gymnasiums around the world.
10. Earthship dwelling
That's the Earthship in a nutshell – it's not a ship but a house, built entirely of natural and recycled materials in a completely sustainable manner. Earthships refer to the natural world like no other homes. They get all of their energy from the sun or wind turbines and all of their water from the natural environment. Sewage is treated naturally, while heating and cooling come from the sun (Earthships are heavily insulated, making them extra efficient to heat and cool). Even your kitchen can be off the grid in an Earthship, as you can grow all of your own food in, on and around the dwelling.
1. Mountain penthouse
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| Beijing rooftop 'mountain' Penthouse |
An architectural oddity situated atop a 26-story Beijing skyscraper (seen in a photo taken on Aug. 13) was declared illegal by code enforcement officials after several years of neighborhood balking.
The eccentric creator is Dr. Zhang Biqing, a founder of a chain of Chinese medicine clinics. Over six years, Biqing has spent $130,000 to envelope his rooftop home into a "mountain retreat" made of imitation rocks dotted with trees and shrubbery.
Neighbors, who have endured years of construction disruptions, believe the unusual urban abode is affecting the building's integrity. While residents who live under the extravagant penthouse have dealt with damages to pipework and walls, Biqing says he was just trying to make the building look nicer.
The mountainous additions to the apartment have been ordered to be demolished within 15 days.
2. Harvest Dome 2.0
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| Harvest Dome 2.0 |
When it comes to staging 'performance architecture' on NYC waterways, the second time's truly a charm. Harvest Dome 2.0, a giant sphere made from discarded umbrellas, is now bobbing merrily along at Inwood Hill Park Inlet.
A floating geodesic orb made from 450 wrecked umbrella skeletons supported by a buoyant ring composed of more than 100 solar LED-embedded two-liter plastic soda bottles. Measuring 24-by-18-feet, the dome — a work of “performance architecture”
3. Maya façade
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| A stucco relief that dates to the 590s was found in the ancient Maya city of Holmul. (Photo: Holmul Archaeological Project/PACUNAM) |
An enormous, elaborately decorated Maya façade has been uncovered in Guatemala on the outside of a mysterious ancient building that archaeologists are trying to explore.
Grave robbers came close to finding the 26-foot-long (8 meters) and 6.5-foot-high (2 m) stucco relief before archaeologists got there. The 1,400-year-old carvings were discovered last month as excavators dug up a tunnel left open by looters at the site of Holmul — an ancient Maya city in the Peten region of Guatemala.
4. Bryan Cranston's energy beach home
Bryan Cranston's new net-zero energy beach home features solar, recycled materials, and one awesome automated car lift.
Some of the green features in the modest 2,450 square foot, 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath house include radiant heating, solar panels, solar hot water, and sustainable, reusable materials. One neat feature I’ve not seen in green homes before was also the installation of a automated car lift that allows two vehicles to park in a traditional one space garage – a savings of 200 sq ft.
5. Cardboard Cathedral
Located a few blocks from the semi-demolished ChristChurch Cathedral in Latimer Square, Ban’s A-frame style structure with a capacity allowing for 700 parishioners was built from timber, steel, and 98 polyurethane and flame retardant-coated cardboard tube-encased beams weighing 1,100 pounds each. Topped with a polycarbonate roof, decked with striking triangular stained glass windows etched with images from the original cathedral's rose window, and anchored by walls formed by eight recycled shipping containers, the concrete-floored Cardboard Cathedral will also serve as an event space, concert hall, and de facto tourist destination.
6. The Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy
The Saugerties Lighthouse, an 1869 landmark-turned-B&B in New York's Hudson Valley.
Operated by the Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy, the bed and breakfast is open to guests from Thursdays through Sundays year-round and includes two second-floor guestrooms with double beds that share a first-floor bathroom and common kitchen. There’s also a third bedroom that now functions as a small museum open to overnight guests and visitors on scheduled tours. The sweeping views of the Hudson and the Catskill Mountains enjoyed from the rooms are stunning to say the least.
7. Tiny apartments
The trend that started with a few hardcore environmentalists has spread to urban hipsters who are gleefully ditching their stuff.
The smaller your living space is, the lower your heating and cooling costs are. Not only that, but more compact spaces also encourage a more mindful approach to consumption – forcing inhabitants to whittle down their belongings to those things that they only need and use. What’s fascinating, however, is that this trend is now reaching well beyond the ethically driven hardcore environmentalist. Tiny homes are becoming decidedly mainstream — at least as far as hip, city-dwelling singles are concerned.
8. Beer Can House
Houston's landmark Beer Can House is a monument to recycling. The project began in 1968 when Milkovisch, an upholsterer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, began embedding thousands of marbles, rocks, and metal scraps into concrete and wood to create an artificial landscape to replace the lawn and garden.
"Ripley's Believe It or Not" estimated that more than 50,000 cans were saved from the landfill in this monument to recycling. That’s an estimated six-pack a day over the course of 20 years; neighbors and his wife, Mary, are said to have helped in this noble effort (someone had to do it, after all).
9. Shipping Containers Home design
"Cargotecture" refers to structures made partially or entirely of recycled shipping containers. There are millions of shipping containers at ports across the country just waiting to be recycled into relocatable, durable, securable and sustainable buildings that become homes, businesses and school gymnasiums around the world.
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| Made of 24 refurbished shipping containers, Puma City is a tri-level, 11,000-square-foot athletic store and event space with a full bar, sun deck and rooftop dance floor. |
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| The University of Amsterdam's Keetwonen was launched in 2005 as temporary student housing and is the largest shipping container village in the world, according to its manufacturer. Each shipping container dorm room comes complete with a kitchenette, powder room, separate sleep and study areas, a large window and auto vent system, and heat from a central boiler. |
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| This cargo complex in Berlin is made from 34 recycled shipping containers and houses a cultural center for art events and exhibitions. Modeled after an existing shipping container structure in Seoul, South Korea, Kunsthalle (German for exhibition hall) is dedicated to the underground/subculture art scene. It also has the puzzling ability to be rearranged to fit various venue exhibits by way of a giant crane. |
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| This Starbucks drive-through/walk-up location in the Seattle suburb Tukwila is made of four recycled shipping containers. The cafe measures just 448 square feet, about as much space as a typical Starbucks, with room for three baristas to serve up lattes behind the counter. |
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| This Paris eatery designed by 1024 architecture is a temporary restaurant made of salvaged shipping containers. Les Grandes Tables is the first of a future entertainment location by Jean Nouvel, which will include hotels, theaters, art studios and museums located on Seguin Island in Western Paris. |
10. Earthship dwelling
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| Earthship House |
That's the Earthship in a nutshell – it's not a ship but a house, built entirely of natural and recycled materials in a completely sustainable manner. Earthships refer to the natural world like no other homes. They get all of their energy from the sun or wind turbines and all of their water from the natural environment. Sewage is treated naturally, while heating and cooling come from the sun (Earthships are heavily insulated, making them extra efficient to heat and cool). Even your kitchen can be off the grid in an Earthship, as you can grow all of your own food in, on and around the dwelling.
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