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• Metropolis 2.0: Bonkers Barcelona Complex Could Mimic Distant Galaxies

  
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  Rendering via The Telegraph Looks like someone spent 10 minutes in Photoshop to churn out the, uh, "renderings" for an artificial island slated to be plopped off the coast of Barcelona. According to The Telegraph, the Mobilona Space Hotel is planned as a 984-foot-tall structure designed to offer an "other ...
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• Alternative Landmarks: 12 Monuments As They Almost Were

  
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  [ By Steph in Architecture & Public & Institutional . ]   The Sydney Opera House might have been little more than a squat concrete building resembling a factory, and a visit to the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial could have required scaling a massive stepped pyramid. Ranging from ...
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• It’s A Woman’s World Now: First Women Awards Nominees Named

  
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  It’s a man’s world no more; these days more and more women are entering into professions deemed to be all male territory. In fact, they’re not only starting work in engineering, construction and manufacturing, these women are excelling in their … Continue reading  →
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• Designers/Architects Shine at Vegas Expo

  
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  A wide variety of products were on display last week at the HD (Hospitality Design) Expo at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
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• Etsy Shop – Update

  
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  So as you know, I’ve been getting ready to launch my new shop on Etsy! I’ve been spending all my free time creating my original jewellery pieces to build up […]
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• Horizon House by Harvard University poses as the ‘retreat in nature’

  
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  Last month, the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition finally concluded, with USA’s Harvard University coming up with the winning entry among twelve designated universities from eleven different countries. Designed for a site in Memu Meadows (Taiki-cho, Hokkaido), their design is named as the ...
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• Clunky or Cool? Alice Eve Sports Bionda Castana “Christa” Sandals

  
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  Alice Eve has been on a roll with her interesting shoe choices lately. We featured her a few days ago ( here ) in a pair of Christian Louboutin booties. She was spotted again on the same day in a pair of interesting sandals from Bionda Castana. They’re called the “Christa,” and they feature an allover woven ...
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• Its Not Easy Being Green: This Green Boarding School Saves $350K on Energy Bills

  
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  In Its Not Easy Being Green, Curbed pulls back the curtain on cutting-edge, environmentally friendly design, from urban passive houses to green tweaks on suburban living. Have a suggestion for an upcoming column? Pass it along. Photo via Architizer Heres a look at Hotchkiss School, in Lakeville, Conn., ...
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• Big Sur beauties

  
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  At the request of a reader who is searching for a home in Big Sur, California, I am featuring three Big Sur homes today for comparison. So let’s see which one you would pick! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ House #1 The first one is a Mickey Muennig designed remodel of a 1977 home. [A quick note about Big Sur: Big Sur [...]
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• Waterski Jump Wire: Coming soon to the land of...

  
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  Coming soon to the land of the "basically a giant freezer" ski resort: a huge, ramp-like waterski jump jutting out over an inlet of Biscayne Bay. The ultra-modern Miami Lift, submitted by NYC-based Studio Dror, was the winning entry for the Landmark Miami ideas competition. [ previously ; Curbed Miami]
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• Architectural Craziness: South Koreas 8City isnt the only...

  
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  South Koreas 8City isnt the only project making waves these days for its phallic form: the under-construction Peoples Daily newspaper headquarters in Beijing has become a thing of Photoshop jokes on Sina Weibo, Chinas version of Twitter. When complete, the 150-meter-tall (492.1-foot) building, designed by ...
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• Michelle’s Antique Road Trip: A Shopping Gem on the Missouri River

  
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  Jeff’s Architectural Salvage, 291 Welt Street, Weston Mo., sits in the old river channel and an original grain elevator to which riverboats once docked to take on grain sits on his property. The building still has a working seed separator that is original to the building, too. I am all about quaint little towns ...
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• Art Deco destinations fit for the Great Gatsby

  
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  The Roaring 20s are it. Thanks to the upcoming release of Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic retelling of F Scott Fitzgerald the Great Gatsby, all things 1920s related are enjoying a much deserved revival and one of the most recognisable features of the era is the Art Deco design style. Art Deco first appeared in France ...
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• Front Door Security

  
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  Read more @ Eco-Logic Bamboo Door Security measure 67% of break-ins take place through the front door. Standard door locks (Yale variety) on its own is actually not really enough. The door should also be fitted with other locks at points along the door. These types of locks should become some thing similar to a ...
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• The newest volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Ireland series: South Ulster, the Counties of Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan

  
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  The South Ulster volume of the Buildings of Ireland covers the inland counties of Cavan, Monaghan and Armagh, an area stretching from the thinly populated uplands around the Cuilcagh Mountains and the cradle of the Shannon to the fertile Blackwater Valley and the southern shores of Lough Neagh. The architecture of ...
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• No. 834: Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1

  
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  Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, WC1. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Hand-Book of London. Past and Present – Peter Cunningham, 1850: YORK COLUMN, CARLTON GARDENS. A column of Scotch granite, erected (1830-33) by public subscription, with a bronze statue of the Duke of York, the second son of George III., upon the ...
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• The Ultimate in Mid-Century cool – a cold war bomb shelter!

  
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  Need to get away from it all?   Wish we could all be transported back to the days of “duck and cover”? Here’s a way to own your very own Cold War Era Atomic Bomb Shelter in Fort Pierce, Florida. The structure, built in 1967, was built during the Cold War, to “withstand the big blast” and operated as a ...
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• SO COOL: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF JONN COOLIDGE

  
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  Photo by Jonn Coolidge “If you put in me front of a private art collection, I become like a kid in a candy store,” says interior design and still-life photographer Jonn Coolidge as we take a seat in his stunning apartment nested in the Hollywood hills. You could tell he’s fascinated by art just by taking a ...
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• Andaz Savannah: A-list Style Meets Southern Comfort

  
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  Traditional Savannah embraces her alter ego as a stylish and modern metropolis with a hip urban oasis, the Andaz, in Historic Ellis Square. The Andaz Savannah , a Hyatt boutique hotel is the result of an artful redesign (formerly the AVIA) elevating the property to a new standard in hospitality for discerning ...
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• Architectural Craziness: Mumbais Tallest, Sveltest Tower Will Confuse the Wind

  
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  Renderings via Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill With its plans for a rather perilous-looking waif of a skyscraper, Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture have won a bid to build what will become Mumbais tallest building, a 1,312-foot-tall residential skyscraper in Indias most populous city. No ...
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