Showing posts with label Structures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Structures. Show all posts

Ark Floating Hotel in China by Remistudio


Ark hotel in China is one of amazing floating hotels in the world, Ark floating hotel in China designed by Remistudio office for architecture, it's creative hotel building designed for many reasons. Lets know more about it :

In response to concerns about climate change and rising sea levels, the Russian office Remistudio has designed a hotel conceptual with the ability to withstand extreme floods. The building Ark mode has a structure that allows it to float independently on the water surface. The Ark was also designed to be a bioclimatic space with self-contained breathing apparatus.

The Quietest Place On Earth ~And No One Can Stand It


The “anechoic chamber” at Orfield Laboratories is the quietest place on earth and it is unbearable due deafening silence.

Most of us would embrace a moment of free time to “enjoy the quiet”. However, the phrase “silence is golden” does not ring true for the Guinness World Record location of the quietest place on Earth which still holds to this day. Ultra-sensitive tests performed on January 21, 2004 determined the background noise reading to be -9.4 dBA (decibel A-weighted). Currently, the record length of stay in the world’s quietest place which is a chamber located at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is 45 minutes.  The silence is achieved with the use of 3.3 feet of fiberglass acoustic wedges, double insulated steel and concrete that is a foot thick.

Top 10 Unique and Creative buildings of World




Constructing a building is a very complicated job. It takes serious time, needs money and also man-power. If a building has a special and unique concept and design then it also needs great amount of calculation, experience and innovation. This article is about most unusual and most creative buildings around the world. Since there’s no way to make an official list about it, my top 10 is selected from random works. Hope you will enjoy my taste. Check out 10 Most Unusual & Creative Buildings around the world.

Interesting Facts About Burj Khalifa



Burj Khalifa , known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is currently the tallest manmade structure in the world, at 829.84 m (2,723 ft). Here are some interesting facts about Burj Khalifa :-

1. Standing at 2,723 feet, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai beats out the next-tallest building in the world by more than 1,000 feet. The Burj Khalifa is roughly three times the height of the Eiffel Tower, 15 times the highest point at Niagara Falls and almost twice as tall as the Empire State Building.

Rolling Bridge: The Bridge that Curls Up on Itself !!!


Designed by Heatherwick Studio, the award-winning Rolling Bridge is located Paddington Basin, London. Rather than a conventional opening bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that lifts to let boats pass, the Rolling Bridge gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch. While in its horizontal position, the bridge is a normal, inconspicuous steel and timber footbridge; fully open, it forms a circle on one bank of the water that bears little resemblance to its former self.