Get set to travel forward through time to four futuristic home designs by architect Andrey Chudinow, each one shaped by technological inspiration. Sculptural panels carve out circuit board-like surroundings with oblique outlines and lightbox cutaways. Space age TV walls look like starship control rooms, whilst bedrooms look all set for a long hypersleep through the . . .
Category: Future Buildings
Features architecturally significant building concepts that push the limits.
Outlandish Concrete Dream Homes In Outlandish Settings
These outlandish concrete dream homes are set in equally outlandish settings, completely secluded as though settled on some alien planet. Designed by Shanghai and Mumbai based architect and architectural photographer Amey Kandalgaonkar, these futuristic conceptual homes are the stuff of wild imagination. We kick off the creations with a Mars crater-like dwelling on planet Earth . . .
Plan B: A Concept Luxury Underground Bunker Perfect For The Pandemic
This unique concept by Sergey Makhno Architects is a 2,280 square metre luxury bunker, which lies buried beneath the Earth’s surface at a depth of 15 metres and below. Outside, the sweeping concrete entranceway of Plan B looks like some sort of a futuristic gallery for art. Inside, the underground home resembles a spacecraft, housing . . .
A Monaco Penthouse set to Rival the World’s Most Expensive
These visualizations are not merely a creation of the imagination. They represent a soon-to-be very real building called Tour Odeon, which is set to rival its neighbour: Monaco’s and the world’s most expensive penthouse, worth a cool $305 million. Expected to be completed mid-2014, work on the façade will begin in July. As the visualizations . . .
Edgeland House Returns to the Earth
If Zaha Hadid’s ‘Capital Hill,’ created for Naomi Campbell and commissioned by Russian billionaire, Vladislav Doronin, is the Mothership then Bercy Chen Studio’s ‘Edgeland House,’ overlooking the Colorado River is, at the very least, a Puddle Jumper. Though the size of the Edgeland House project is meager compared to Hadid’s monster (or monstrosity as opinion . . .
Stunning Underwater Hotel: The Water Discus
Deep Ocean Technology comes to life in the shape of this magnificent Water Discus Hotel proposed to be constructed in Dubai shortly. The structure would comprise of one underwater and one above-water disc, connected by three solid legs that are fixed to the sea bed, and a daylight filled vertical shaft containing a lift and . . .
Winners of the Hover Architectural Visualization Contest
The Hover Challenge was a competition organized by Ronen Bekerman with a mission to find the most dynamic concept for the architectural design of a hover structure with full reign of the surrounding environment and materials used to visualize it. We are featuring the winner and the runner ups of the contest which attracted several . . .
Concept Architectural Buildings
Sometime back in 2008, the CG Society organized a contest that invited digital artists from around the globe to present their most imaginative and grandest futuristic vision for the new world through architecture and landscape design. The end results were amazingly impressive and immeasurable to what we normally see on a daily basis. Though it’s . . .
5.7 Billion dollar resort that houses a 55 story high infinity pool
With stunning views all around and sporting a 150m long infinity swimming pool set on top of the world’s largest public cantilevered platform, the Marina Bay Sands hotel opened up to much fanfare on June 23rd in Singapore. Designed by Moshe Safdie, this hotel has several features you won’t find in an ordinary hotel. Hotel . . .
Artsy Achitecture: Hydrogenase, Algae Farm by Vincent Callebaut
The Hydrogenase Algae Farm envisioned by the creative minds at Vincent Callebaut takes the green revolution to an entirely new plane. Mimicking nature in design, the algae farm is a completely self-contained miniature biochemical power station able to absorb CO2 and give off useable energy. Green algae and seaweeds recycle CO2 that would normally contribute . . .
Mahina: The Dream House You Cannot Own!
This could give the Iron Man’s house a run for its money. Approximately 40 miles north of Auckland, New Zealand is the perfect perch for a proposed dream house. Though only an architectural visualization at this point, this is the kind of house you would normally expect a Bond movie villain to own! Mahina, Maori . . .
5 Awesome Architectural Videos
Here are a set of 5 beautiful videos that just might give you a clue as to what outlandish ideas architects push to their clients these days. Today, as more and more of them are given the license to try out ‘something-that-has-never-been-done-before’, the concepts are now getting bolder than ever. Though these ideas may be . . .
Amazing Architectural Concept Physalia: The Amphibious Garden
As always UN comes up with shocking hair-raising statistics about world calamities. As worrying they are, they have a strange power to jostle creative minds. Several mind boggling inventions and innovations come into being when the earth is endangered and the concept amphibian garden done by Vincent is just an example of it. Though the . . .
Futuristic Pod House Concept
Imaginations knows no boundaries. And this one can tell by looking at the MercuryHouseOne mobile lounge. Created by Architecture and Vision, this modern unit reflects a very pragmatic approach to an extremely unconventional design. It is a self sufficient mobile unit that can fit in both urban as well as rural environment. At first instance . . .
Burj Khalifa (Formerly Burj Dubai) Opens Officially
The building is complete and the height has been revealed. The tallest man made structure that has ever been built is 828 m (2,717 ft) tall and is now called the Burj Khalifa. The height of the tower, which was one of the most closely guarded secrets during construction, was flashed onto a giant screen . . .
Urban Forest: Sky Scraper With Gardens
If you are tired of looking at rigid building designs, this post is surely going to blow you away! Designing is an art and one rarely envisions such path breaking ideas. This building, modeled by MAD architects will be located in Chonquing, China. Connected by a core cylindrical structure, each floor has been placed a . . .
40 Revolutionary Housing Concepts from Ordos 100
Ordos 100 is a massive project that is being developed for Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd in Ordos, Inner Mongolia(China) which involves the construction of 100 Villas designed by 100 acclaimed architects from 27 different countries. Divided into two phases, the first phase encompasses 28 villas while the second phase includes the rest. Each architect . . .
Sustainable Home Designs for Katrina Victims
Actor Brad Pitt has partnered with real-estate developer and philanthropist Steve Bing to create low-price, sustainable homes as part of the “Make it Right” project. A set of duplex designs were proposed by 13 of the world’s top architects to visualize and design green, sustainable houses for hurricane Katrina victims.The designs had to be flexible, . . .
Design of Helix Hotel, Abu Dhabi
An invitation-only competetion was recently held where many eminent architects pitched in their concepts for the Helix Hotel in Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Bay. Leeser Architects won the competetion and here is their winning design. A peculiarity of this concept hotel design is that doesn’t have floors like we’re used to – instead it spirals in . . .
Tomorrow’s Homes
We have always been curious about the future. This perpetual curiousity about seeing tomorrow’s world has driven people and companies to develop montages that depict how they visualize the future. Microsoft is one such company that has boldly come forward with their vision. Take a look at this video where they show you a contemporary . . .
Amazing Concept Buildings
Though we usually concentrate our attention on interior design, every now and then we take a look at innovative ideas in architecture that could become part of tomorrow’s homes. It is for featuring these ideas we have the Future Buildings section on our blog. Some of the ideas featured below are a bit far-fetched and . . .