Modern Minimalist Multifunction H2O Floating Office Design

H2O floating office is an amazing modern minimalist office design. H2O floating office is a manifestation of a brilliant idea that combines a modern minimalist office and multifunctional office design with a boat. Floating office design becomes a portable office

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Sustainable: Roof garden

Guz Architects devises lavish Singapore house as inspiring house with green garden design at Sentosa Island. Lavish Singapore house design is located at Singapore Sentosa Island, famous island at Singapore. Inspiring house ideas build with new green garden design. Green garden design made at all open areas at every level. Lavish Singapore house design by Guy Architects offers beautiful sea landscape at front of the house. Green garden design at front yard of Lavish Singapore house design becomes a nicely place to enjoys scenery outside. Guy Architcets make green garden design at Singapore house design at every level including the first floor and at rooftop. Arch roof and green garden design at Singapore house design by Guy Architects integrated becomes extremely unify as inspiring house ideas at Singapore Sentosa Island.

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Architecture KAUST Academic Library

HOK designing an academic library architecture for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.




Skylightsare perforated panels on the building created a intricate light patterns that reminiscent of the traditional Middle Eastern mashrabiya screens. Interior space for the library has a large volume to studies space with a view to the sea that connects the building with the topography of the site.

Great firm very interested in doing an internship....

Arboretum Lackenbach by 3:0 Landscape Arc

A very simple design intervention gives a very special character to the park

Location: Lackenbach, Austria
Design & Construction: 2006-2008
Photos: Rupert Steiner, Hertha Hurnaus

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MADINAT JUMEIRAH DUBAI

Six Senses Spa and over 40 restaurants,

bars, and cafes. All of the elements of the resort

are linked by over 3.5 kilometers of waterways

throughout the project using 30 Abras, traditiona

Arabian boats used for fishing and transportation.

Lesley Ann Hartman: artist working in the South East of the UK draw and paint (using pencil, oil paint or soft pastels) all subjects but especially Arabian horses

too true to be made of paint....

Asir architecture - Saudi

The houses in this area are sometimes painted in bright colors, as they are inside.
The houses are made of mud, and to protect it from the rains, people put all along the walls some stones to let the water run out.
The men and women have separate places to live inside.
Animals are also kept inside.
The huge walls are the best way to keep the cool temperature in summer time.
At the top, there is a terrace.

Abha area, Saudi Arabia

    

Edge of Arabia exhibition

Saudi artist Manal Al Dowayan

Leica i9 concept pairs $1,000 camera with $200 iPhone

When you think of manufacturers that create products to go hand-in-hand with the Apple iPhone, leica probably wouldn't come to mind. The seemingly brilliant minds at Black Design Associates hope to change that, however. The leica i9 concept pairs aniphone 4 with a fixed-lens rangefinder camera, and the result is nothing short of extraordinary. Slipping your iPhone 4 -- black or  white -- into the back of the i9 brings the camera to life, activating the compact optical zoom, dedicated aperture and shutter dials, flash and light meter. Images are instantly viewable on the iPhone, where it's safe to assume they're stored as well. The camera back doubles as a case, but you're probably going to want to use it with a headset, unless you like talking to a camera. There's no sign that the i9 will even reach the prototype phase, but nobody is going to stop the high-end camera's designer from dreaming -- especially when said dreams make us weak at the knees.


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A Million Little Pieces

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey is a brutally 

explicit, honest novel about what Frey went through in a durg/alcohol rehab center. It not only focused on his experiences in the rehab center, but it also gave some insight into the horrible things that happened to him and that he did while using - the incomprehensible life of an addict. 

The book made me laugh, made me ill, it shocked and saddened me, and I cried at the end. It made me appreciate NOT having to go through what James Frey went through. 

The book sadly tells the statistics - only 15% of those that leave the treatment center, actually "recover" and stay clean 

Coachella

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival annual music and arts festival organized by Goldenvoice held at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. This event features many genres of music including alternative rock, hip hop, and Electronic music as well as large sculptural art. The event has several stages/tents set-up throughout the grounds, each playing live music continuously.

Centre Pompidou (National Modern Art Museum), PARIS

Centre Pompidou is one of my favorite places in Paris.

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers were the two architects behind this amazing monuments.

Their approach was an 'inside-out' boilerhouse approach, where air conditioning, pipes, lifts and even escalators were on the outside. 

The area around the center has a very hip vibe. People come from all around the city to sit at the surrounding cafes watching street performers and enjoying the fountains there. 

On the 5th and top floor there is a restaurant and a cafe called George, which has one of the best views of the city. If you don't love Paris already, one visit to George and you'll fall madly in love. 

Palm Island

we all know Palm Jumeirah as an international icon, but actually it was created help solve Dubai’s beach shortage. The Ruler of Dubai, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum drew a sketch of a palm tree and realized its fronds could provide more beach frontage than a traditional circular island. So the idea of Palm Jumeirah was born.

Atlantis, The Palm is a 1,539 room, ocean-themed destination resort located at the centre of the crescent of the man-made Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. Opened in September 2008, the hotel resort has 17 hectares of water park amusement, shopping mall, five stars restaurants and much more.