Showing posts with label Architectural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Architectural. Show all posts

Friday, December 10, 2010

A Town of Hobbit

Place shown on these photos really exist: A farm nearby to Matamata – a rural Waikato town in New Zealand, was the location for the Hobbiton set in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The New Zealand government decided to leave the Hobbit holes built on location as tourist attractions, since they were designed to blend seamlessly into the environment. They have no furniture, but

Sunday, September 19, 2010

The Most Beautiful Infinity Pools

I would love to have a vacation in one of those places. So beautiful. Golden Triangle Resort - Chiang Rai,

The Evolution of Shanghai 1990 to 1996 to 2010

Shanghai in 1990 Shanghai in 1996 Shanghai in 2010 [catchrandom.blogspot.com]

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Google Office in Zurich

This office is all about fun: it has a lot of specially decorated rooms in which employees can do their work. s even a game room for relaxation and a gym where you can work out. Seeing such offices makes you wish you were working for Google. They have everything a person needs in there and even more. They have massage chairs, slides, pool tables and other games, private cabins and much

Friday, August 6, 2010

World's Coolest Bathrooms

Aquarium Bathroom Like many beach-side bathrooms, the Mumin Papa Café in Akashi, Japan, is decorated with deep-sea creatures. But the live three-wall aquarium envelops the

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Careful Not to Backstroke Over the Edge of Singapore

55 storeys up, this infinity pool could glide you straight over the edge of Singapore, if not the world. It's part of the $6 billion Marina Bay Sands Skypark hotel, which just opened this week. Ok, so if you were really to propel yourself over the edge, you'd fall

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Friday, June 4, 2010

Artist Antony Gormley unveils spectacular glowing artwork that viewers can walk through

A huge glowing labyrinth of grids filling a blackened room was unveiled today as Angel of the North creator Antony Gormley's latest artwork.A 'maze' of stacked blocks of cast iron also feature in the display at the White Cube gallery in central London, as part of the artist's latest examination of the relationship between architecture and the human body.Prices for works in the exhibition,

Thursday, May 20, 2010

A VIP Hideout

When you look at the entrance to the place, you will never guess what lies ahead. Well hidden and out of sight, the door leads to more sturdy safe like doors which will keep you safe from everything. As you proceed into the underground building, you will find rooms that are surprisingly well done and well lit too. Whether you want to get away from the city or are just looking for a very

Thursday, May 13, 2010

10 Most Unique Stadiums

World Games Stadium – Taiwan Taiwan has what is being touted as the largest solar-powered stadium in the world, the ‘World Games Stadium'. It comes with massive and gigantic solar panels which harnesses all the solar energy in order to generate electricity that could

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Amazing Chinese garden

Do you like nature? This is perfect combination of nature and art. The designers of this amazing garden are truly artists. Enjoy in their masterpiece! source

Monday, May 10, 2010

Exploring Some Of The Most Haunted Places On Earth

In the world of all things related to the paranormal, the world is generally divided into two separate groups – those who are scared and do not want to find out any more details about the ghost or unexplainable activity and those who whilst being somewhat scared, can not help but want to find every piece of information on the haunting. The following places are said to be some of the most

Friday, May 7, 2010

The World’s Amazing Secluded Houses

Great photos of incredibly secluded houses which sets deep remotely into places where there doesn’t seem to have any ease of communications and transport. Unsure whether anyone dwells in these houses but they do seem great to live where we could get away from the pollution of city life. source

Saturday, April 17, 2010

The Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg – The World’s Biggest Model Train Set

#fullpost{display:inline; Frederik Braun and his then-girlfriend and today’s wife were visiting the alpine city of Zurich in July 2000. Sauntering together through the alleys of Zurich’s center, they came across a railway model shop, which at once evoked childhood memories in Frederik. During the following hours, the idea of realizing the long forgotten childhood dream

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Brilliance of the Seas - big ass boat!

Life in the Googleplex

The Googleplex is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway, and Shoreline Boulevard in north Mountain View, California close to the Shoreline Park wetlands. Employees living in San Francisco or the East Bay may take a wifi-enabled Google subsidized shuttle to and from work. It is powered by biodiesel. Neighbors of the Googleplex include Alza Plaza to the west; Shoreline

Inside Tokyo Storm Water Discharge Channel

Advance planning that leads to the security of the citizens of the country is always welcomed, more especially if it is something related with the natural catastrophes. These natural disasters are simply unpredictable and dealing with them looks like an insurmountable task. Though hugely expensive, but it is worth taking over, for the

Normandy 1944 – Then and Now

BERNIERES SUR MER Typical Norman house located along the beach at Juno Beach. (Photo : Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / Archives Nationales du CANADA) BERNIERES SUR MER Canadian troops going ashore on Juno Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. (Photo : Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / Archives Nationales du CANADA ) CAEN Sherman tanks of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers advancing