Modern Architecture & Design news

I’m glad someone else is verbalizing what I’ve been telling people. Essentially, this green building stuff is completely upending the world of architecture. It’s now about physics, math, engineering, energy analysis, airflow, thermal dynamics and lots of other stuff.

Only one tiny problem. This is an entire new industry and no one knows the software, workflow, process. I’m sure everyone wants to hire experienced and qualified people in this field. I’ll put all of this into my EnergyStarchitecture bin and hopefully we’ll figure it all out very soon. (more…)

Villa San GiovanniIstria, Croatia

5 Bedrooms, 5 Bathrooms, (5 en-suite), heated swimming pool

This beautiful Croatian villa has been converted from an old school house and sits atop a hill with 360° views over the sea and historic villages of Motovun and Grozjnan.  It has a living area of 450m2 (4845sq ft).

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residential villa

Ground floor residential villa

FIRST FLOOR residential villa

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Free download dwg plans section and elevation for Mosque

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The Oasis of the Seas will be the first of the Oasis Class (formerly the Genesis Class or project Genesis) luxury cruise ships in the Royal Caribbean International fleet. The ship was ordered in February 2006 and the keel was laid in December 2007. The Oasis will come into service in December 2009, sailing from Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, US, on Caribbean itineraries.

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The Seasteading Institute, a self-described “society of ocean pioneers” has announced the winners of its first-ever 3-D design competition–five visions for floating a housing development the size of a small town on an ocean platform.

The Institute, founded by Patri Friedman, a 32-year-old former software engineer at Google, wants to make offshore living workable. With funding from a top-tier VC, the Institute eventually hopes to produce open-source blueprints usable by anyone intent on creating their own country. They’ve already produced a design for a $50 million platform.

But the current concepts aren’t intended to be built–rather, it’s an exercise to promote the concept–to visualize what a life offshore might be like. Here’s the five winners, culled from 41 entries:

“Swimming City” designed by 27-year-old Hungarian graphic designer Andras Gyorf, took the grand prize of $1,000. It’s the most traditional of the schemes. Step away the floating platform, and the design could easily be a mixed-use redevelopment of factory lofts in Dallas:

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Pictures of cool statues and monuments featuring artistic, weird and bizarre, clever, outrageous, beautiful and controversial creations by artists and sculptors from around the world.

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By John F. Wasik
Green is gold. Why didn’t homebuilders get this idea? They could be building new homes again, employing millions, making inner cities and suburbs habitable and bring down the cost of housing for everyone.
Homebuilding needs to join the 21st century and apply the best, efficient technologies to lower costs and reduce energy and resource consumption. But the vast majority of homes have been built using the very best 19th-century, stick-built/balloon frame methods. That’s got to change if we want to revive the bedrock of the American Dream.

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residential villas and residential buildings

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Swimming Pool Construction

Identify the dimensions of the swimming pool

Drilling of the pool

Poured concrete

Installation of sand filter for swimming pool

Finishes

The final form of the pool

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