Showing posts with label Buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buildings. Show all posts

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Lake Palace Hotel on Lake Pichola-Udaipur, India


India’s Lake Palace is a luxury hotel of 83 rooms and 17 suites featuring white marble walls. It is located on a natural foundation of 4 acres (16,000 m2) rock on the Jag Niwas island in Lake Pichola, Udaipur, India. It’s very famous and lots of celebrities visited it but now, the India’s Lake Palace lost its lake after an unprecedented drought.

And what was once one of the favourite hotels of the rich and famous and known as one of the most romantic retreats in the world is not so romantic anymore with its dried lands.

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Waldspirale - The Wooded Spiral of Darmstadt, Germany


Located in Darmstadt, Germany, the Waldspirale apartment-building was designed by Austrian artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and built during the 1990s.

There are other apartment buildings in Darmstadt, but the U-shaped Waldspirale is special. Its diagonal roof is covered with grass, shrubs and trees and the facade follows an irregular grid organization.

Waldspirale has over 1,000 windows, but no two are the same. The handles on the apartment doors and the windows are also unique.


Waldspirale was completed in 2000 and people actually live in it.
























Friday, November 19, 2010

Freitag Shipping Container Store in Zurich


Freitag Shop in Zurich looks different then any other shops. It is built of containers and sells bags, made of recycle material.