[Jaspersharpe]

Every wardrobe is filled with Burberry and Von Dutch and the drawers are overflowing with Elizabeth Duke's finest.

[Bubba]

It'd be fantastic post argos

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Steel House


Hobbit House?


Lighthouse


Potential giant campus Board House

[Jaspersharpe]

My God. 1-5-9-13-17-21-25 anyone?

[Houdini]

If I could choose any appartment over here it would be these by the docks:









But the cheapest flats go for €1500/month (not inc. bills).  I'll have to wait . . .      This is the view on the other side:





The dockside offices of one of the ferry companies.  My interval training steps run the length of the far right:

[slackline]

Some funky stuff in Beijing...

[Jaspersharpe]

Have you seen this monstrosity in the monstrous place that is Dubai?




It's a fucking ski slope.

[SA Chris]

New skyscrapers planned for chicago.

[Jaspersharpe]

New skyscrapers planned for chicago.

Blimey.

[dave]

I know its kinda like a jetsons 1950s view of the future, but i've always liked the CN Tower as a building. it really is jawdropping when you're there, really hard to get your head around.

[SA Chris]

It's a fucking ski slope.

Seen pics of it before. In a place of buildings with big carbon footprints, can you imagine how much energy is required to keep that thing below zero in a desert?

[Monolith]

Check out this cabin a family have spent 9 years building in Minnesota.





The idea of using shipping containers as a habitable space is an attractive one and it's nice to see someone who's done it so well.

[Paul B]

It's been done a lot before though, one country was using them to build massive low cost housing developments...

[Monolith]

Makes sense eh and looks good. I remember leafing through a Muji catalogue from a few years back and they have produced something very similar looking in Japan but not from used shipping containers (and probably NOT low cost).

[Paul B]

Yeah I guess in terms of sustainable development it makes sense but i've got to say I don't really like either of the two examples. There must be a better way.

[Monolith]

Combining them with other reusable elements might yield some attractive results. Not sure what mind.

[slackline]

TravelLodge are bunging up a hotel for the London Olympics in this manner (see here and here).  They're made in China, but I think Denmark would have been more appropriate though 

[Eddies]

Best you'd need ear-plugs for when it rains tho, and they must get mighty hot in summer!

[Paul B]

They're made in China, but I think Denmark would have been more appropriate though 

Well that undermines the whole point of using them in the first place, idiots, I hate sustainable developments and carbon neutral and all that schabang because people always do sh*t like this.

[slackline]

Well that undermines the whole point of using them in the first place, idiots, I hate sustainable developments and carbon neutral and all that schabang because people always do sh*t like this.

carbon neutral == hyperbole

[SA Chris]

I saw a new fuckoff big Landrover the other day that had a "Carbon Neutral" badge, just under the badging on the back. Does this refer to the production or over the lifetime of the car? Either way, it's bollocks.

[Houdini]

Have you seen this monstrosity in the monstrous place that is Dubai?[

I lived/worked here for a few months some years ago.  The above monstrosity is not so monstrous against other constructions, for example, the man-made islands:



But remember, this is the place where bottled mineral water is costlier than petrol . . .

[Duma]

what, a bit like here?

[hongkongstuey]

Some funky stuff in Beijing...

we had a couple of internal talks at work on how they designed those two - there's some pretty clever people in the firm I work for (not me included though...)

another of our recent showcase structures from China, not finished yet but pretty logic defying:

[Zods Beard]

Good program on BBC 2 on Wed at 9, Adventures in Architecture, focussing on Brazil's purpose built capital Brasilia, with more cities to follow. Looks good.

[Jaspersharpe]

Art deco McDonalds, Melboune, Australia.



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