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Ourbania is a fun, interactive site that lets you explore the world through its buildings. Supported by an online community of “real estate enthusiasts,” the site encourages visitors to post information about real life structures – from bridges to skyscrapers – to its online community. Users can add photos and notes, and plot a building’s location using a Google-powered map. Like the design of certain building? Visitors can find out the architect, and see what other buildings they might have designed (provided they are uploaded to the site). With a large base of international members, Ourbania lets anyone who’s interested in buildings connect and share information.

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The engrossing posts on this blog cover topics as various as singing roads and Antarctic substations – but somehow they all connect back to the shared themes of cities, architecture, design, media and culture. Penned by Dan Hill, a Swiss-born Englishman living in Sydney, Australia, City of Sound is consistently well-written, thoughtful, and surprising.
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The WallFlower Wall Office by Jonas & Jonas. The scratch- and shock-resistant body of this furniture made of laminate (HPL: high pressure laminate) and allows for any kind of strain. WallFlower offers alterable design with high functionality, both in private as well as in commercial and industrial domains. Its areas of usage are nearly unlimited.

WALLFLOWER does without screws or dowels. It remains stable on the wall by means of four special elastic-buffers on the backside of the racks and by one or two legs made of stainless steel. Statics and strain always give the right footing to WALLFLOWER. Its assembly does not require tools and only needs a few seconds. I love it, perfect for small space, your small workstation.

Expocentre

Closely located to the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), the largest investment and construction project in Russia, and Europe as a whole, the Expocenter Project offers the city a new exposition venue, hotel, and residential development.

The main function of the horizontal space is to house the exposition and conference halls. The exposition halls cantilever to the sides at the upper levels, providing for a snow-free outdoor event space; and concealing the traffic at the southern part of the building. Such a venue with 26,340 sqm net exhibition space, which is located in the center of Moscow, will be in high demand for such high-class exhibitions and events.

The conference halls, located at the Eastern side of the first floor horizontal space, accommodate 3 auditoriums of different sizes, which can also combine to create one large hall of 1500 seats. The residential tower is designed as an elegant continuation of the Moscow City skyline (first a drop and then a rise), with a large vertical volume divided into two smaller shapes in order to sustain its overall slenderness.This verticality of the urban space swoops to the ground to create a main lobby that serves both as a grand social meeting space, and allows for separate entrances for the residence blocks and the hotel.

The hotel rises to the 26th floor of the Western tower, with beautiful views to the Moscow City development. The 2nd and 3rd floors of the hotel complex contain a gym, a spa, and many specialized restaurants, bistro cafes and shops.

The residences are located in the Eastern tower and on the top floors of the Western tower.

Architect: Zaha Hadid

Sherwood Treehouse

London-based architects Make created the winning design for the Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre (yes, that Sherwood Forest ). Their solution makes this little installation in Madison Square Park look really weak. In fact, Make Architecture’s take seems to owe more to Tadashi Kawamata’s early work than anything in contemporary architecture. While obviously pumping up the drama in order to draw upon a child’s greatest treehouse fantasy, this is decidedly grown up architecture too. It redefines contextually-sensitive architecture, sustainable architecture, and destination architecture all at once.

Oh and if this ever gets built, you’ll see my climbing that thing for hours.

Designer: Make Architects

Ipfini Programable

Ipfini offers the ability to program your soda with up to 32 different combinations. The patent-pending bottle design has aroma, flavor and color buttons on the side. The bottle is filled with basic carbonated high-fructose water and the user hits additives to taste. For instance, press the cherry flavor button and add the lime smell. One can only assume you shake the bottle vigorously to mix and then hand it to an unsuspecting cow-orker and enjoy the show. After hearing it was programmable, the obvious questions arose: where are the caffeine buttons and will it run Linux?

Check out this nifty new Dutch website. At iRecommend.nl you can register as a writer and post recommendations about nearly anything.

Write about your favourite holiday, a movie you’ve just seen or artist you really like. Anything goes.

The website is created by a Dutch company called Clear View Media.

Check out the website here