Dynamic Tower, Dubai

Dubai is home to some of the world’s most innovative new architecture. The Dynamic Tower (also known as Dynamic Architecture Building or the Da Vinci Tower) is a proposed skyscraper that measures about 1,400 feet, with 80 floors, when completed sometime in 2010. Each floor will be able to rotate independently, so residents get an ever changing view and city dwellers get an ever shape-changing tower. Each floor is intended to complete a rotation every 90 minutes. This is also said to be the worlds’ first prefabricated skyscrapers.

Am I allowed to say again that Dubai is absurd but sometimes pretty neat?

More from the slideshow 10 stunning 3D buildings made with Google SketchUp

Bauhaus

Fire Lookout Towers

Street Logic: Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA

The Urban Facelift Project

Content Design Group out of Jacksonville, FL, has taken on a mission to redesign buildings and facades in the urban parts of Jacksonville with new and modern architecture and style. I am good friends with one of the heads of the company and they provide some incredible ideas for the city. Check them out for some other neat and modern architectural designs.

Bauhaus On Display

Alfred Arndt’s 1926 designs for Bauhaus houses in Dessau, Germany.

Infrastructure for Souls

An interesting photo set and history of mega churches and how their planning and architecture relates to workplaces as well as how it has changed over the years.

By triple canopy

The Box Office

Green, affordable, flexible office spaces

I would not mind at all living on a boat. Especially one like this.

New York City’s High Line park opens this Tuesday.

May it not become solely a playground for hipsters and yuppies.

(photo and article via the NY Daily News)

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Frank Lloyd Wright | The Re-Model

Saddam’s Palaces: An Interview with Richard Mosse

“These extraordinary images show the imperial palaces of Saddam Hussein converted into temporary housing for the U.S military.”

“The most interesting thing about the whole endeavor for me was the very fact that the U.S. had chosen to occupy Saddam’s palaces in the first place. If you’re trying to convince a population that you have liberated them from a terrible dictator, why would you then sit in his throne? A savvier place to station the garrison would have been a place free from associations with Saddam, and the terror and injustices that the occupying forces were convinced they’d done away with. Instead, they made the mistake of repeating history. 

This is why I’ve titled this body of work Breach. “Breach” is a military maneuver in which the walls of a fortification (or palace) are broken through. But breach also carries the sense of replacement—as in, stepping into the breach. The U.S. stepped into the breach that it had created, replacing the very thing that it sought to destroy.”

Photo above: Provisional office wall partitions within Al-Faw Palace, Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq (2009)

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Digital Water Pavilion

jamesnord:

Isolated Building Study 11. Click through and check out his whole set on isolated buildings.
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All of this guy’s photography is amazing!