Modern Design and Architecture

The whole skin of the building is based on french botanist patrick blanc’s greenwall or vertical garden. the plants are inserted into a geotextile material and are provided with all the nutrients by a series of tubes. so the answer is you don’t have to water them, it’s done automatically. the species used are mosses [...]

My guess would be a service core with a change of access in the middle somewhere. Not a good attempt IMAO (tim) That’s a good question. (Dave) An office, residential, and hotel development in Dubai via

what about giving the link to the designer? or some info? or at least a plan of the house? (Yana) We don’t actually know anything more about it. Someone sent it to us, but didn’t tell us anything. (Dave) via

Beautiful when it was N-Blox, but a new developer (Brad J Lamb, ahem) got wind of the project and changed the scale completely… (Paige) Nice building (maybe), but definitely on the wrong street. You can get a sense of the scale of the streetscape even in this photo and the Grappa Restaurant is pretty typical. [...]

Waow…. how amazing this place. Oooh… if I have enough money to visit this place, I will do it. (Rudy) Amazing place (Hussam Zain) I was in Graz when it was the cultural capitol in 2003. This was an incredible sight… as was the “Kunst Haus”, an art house that was still a work in [...]

This is NOT what I would describe as modern architecture – could it be more ostentatious? ( Paolo ) This is definitely modern architecture. What is ostentatious about it? ( Dave ) via

hahaha.. i love when people try to hate while simultaneously using bad grammar/failing on subject-verb agreement… anyways, the building is gorgeous..( neil ) I like this, but I wonder how it meets the energy code? Overhead doors are usually so leaky. (c-dub) I like/love the idea, but how long before someone takes a fall? That’s [...]

I love this building, it’s as close as you can get to an anti-building in an urban setting. Elegant, sculptural and beautiful, but best of all playful. (Gininitaly) A new building for the Architecture Foundation in London via

Visited the wheel in glorious sunshine. It is superb & well worth the visit. It’s so beautiful to look at & the operation is incredibly smooth. Well done to the designers & engineers. (Helen) i saw a presentation for this device. the amazing thing is that it apparently only takes a few Kw of power [...]