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Canoes Landscape Designer: Julio Barreno Arquitecto
Location: Zahara de la Sierra, Spain
Image Credits: Julio Barreno Arquitecto This building for storing canoes is built as another white point in the landscape. → archinect.com Posted: 01/21/2010 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Haiti: Inflatable Hospital Designer: MSF
Location: Haiti
Image Credits: Benoit Finck MSF is currently installing an inflatable hospital of 100 beds in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. More than 700 MSF staff are working to provide emergency medical assistance to survivors of the earthquake in and outside of the city. → www.boingboing.net Posted: 01/21/2010 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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The North Slope Ski Hotel Designer: Michael Jantzen
Location: n/a
The North Slope Ski Hotel is a conceptual design proposal (in search of a client) for an eco-friendly ninety five-room luxury hotel, which is powered primarily by the wind and by the sun. Eight large vertical axis wind turbines are mounted on the top of the hotel, and a very large array of flexible photovoltaic cells cover the lower south facing curved portion of the structure. → www.michaeljantzen.com Posted: 01/21/2010 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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Fujitsubo Designer: Archivision Hirotani Studio
Location: Tokyo, Japan
This building in Tokyo is called Fujitsubo (barnacle) and was designed by Archivision Hirotani Studio. The facade and roof is completely covered with copper sheets. The light from the 3 skylights can reach the basement through 3 glass panels in each floor. At the moment the building is used by a beauty parlour. → www.todayandtomorrow.net Posted: 01/20/2010 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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The Anteroom Series Designer: James Nizam
Location: Vancouver, BC
Image Credits: James Nizam Photos by my friend James Nizam. Vancouver. There is nothing more beautiful than turning abandon houses into camera obscuras. → www.booooooom.com Posted: 01/20/2010 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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