Apr
9
2009
Leeser Architecture from New York has won a competition for the design of the Helix Hotel that is to be built in Zayed Bay in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Dubbed “the Helix Hotel” for obvious reasons, it will stand on the bay, partially floating in the water and adjacent to the serpentine Sheik Zayed Bridge currently under construction by designer Zaha Hadid.




Via Contemporist.com
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Apr
9
2009
These guys make living in shipping containers and water pipes look like fantasy …
Designer Adams Kalkin proposed an extra portable house Illy Push The Button House made inside a standard shipping container, that by means of hydraulic system in terms of pushing the button unfold to a house that reveals a kitchen, dinning room, living room and bedroom and even a library. The only problem is an absence of the roof.
Via Modern Architecture & Design news




Create by designer Andreas Strauus as a new form of accommodation near Austrian city Linz, This hotel, opened from May till Octobre, is designed from unused increadible robust drain pipes, made from concrete. Simple look-like exterior covers entire 2 metres long room with a double-bed and storage. Other facillities are around, so the hotel integrate to the going of neighbourhood. Cells offers a temporary, comfortable and uncomplicated home. And the bonus: the night in this feature cost as much as you propose to pay.


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