Epic Panchoran Retreat

2010 July 20

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A 380 meter-long roof top deck which spans across the length of the Complex’s three skyscraper structures. Designed by architect moshe safdie, the platform rests 200 meters in the air and is equivalent in size to the Eiffel Tower laid horizontally on its side or three football fields connected end to end. The construction cost around 80 million dollars and required roughly 7,000 tons of steel to complete. To walk the whole length of the skypark takes around twenty minutes, provided that visitors do not stop to enjoy the various attractions along the way: a 150 meter-long infinity swimming pool, bar, restaurant and spa, botanical garden with 250 species of trees and 650 plants, and an observation deck that provides a panoramic view of the waterfront. The observation deck alone is capable of holding 900 people at once, with the whole skypark having the capacity to host up to 3,900.

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Eastern Design Office

2010 May 23

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Italian architecture firm StudioDosi proposed this double-skinned, vegetation-covered headquarters for the Province of Parma. Located in Italy, the four-story 145,000 sq foot (13,500 sq meter) structure features a wide array of green building strategies, extensive gardens, and a living exoskeleton meant to provide shade and natural ventilation for the building underneath.

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HEAD Architecture combined two apartments in Hong Kong to make a new home for a new family. They designed it so that the rituals of family life – bathing, playing, eating, sleeping – can be thoroughly re-evaluated, with an open-plan sequence of simple flexible spaces facilitating the informal flow and changing requirements of an expanding family.

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Studio/Office/production facility designed for PostPanic by Maurice Mentjens Design.

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The Banyan Treehouse

2010 April 3

Rockefeller Partners Architects have designed a guesthouse/studio that resembles a treehouse.

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Flat #1 by Ecole

2010 March 30

Ecole, a French architecture and design studio, has designed an apartment interior in Paris.

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The Water Cube / MVRDV

2010 March 15

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Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) was designed by Davis Brody and Grimshaw Architects.

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Organic Architecture

2010 February 19

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Perforated House

2010 February 17

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The New Facebook Office

2010 February 10

Facebook recently moved their offices out of several smaller locations spread throughout Palo Alto, CA and into one central, 150,000-square-foot building that used to house Agilent Technologies. The space was designed by studio o+a who took time to interview employees to see what they wanted and what would make their work experience better and more productive.

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Green T. House, Beijing

2010 January 29

Artist, entrepreneur and tea lover Zhang Jin Jie wanted to create a business that would reflect and indulge her many passions.  The Green T. House is precisely that, a “tea experience” that encompasses dining, music, art, architecture, and the aforementioned leafy beverage.

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VitraHaus

2010 January 22

VitraHaus project designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, located at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany.

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Working at Google!

2009 December 30

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