Posted June 11, 2008 
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The climate is changing and not in the good way as the global warming will affect large areas on Earth. One of the repercussions is that the ocean level will increase very much because the ice caps of Antarctic and Greenland, and the glaciers in the mainland will melt. Also, you should know that under warm temperatures the water expands therefore the oceans will rise a lot.
Posted April 21, 2008 Comments(0) 
It seems like prefab materials are the latest trend and after Rocio Romero’s LV Prefab Home, it’s Andrade Morettin’s turn to design an interesting house made of prefab materials. The architect build his Residencia RR in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the middle of the dense vegetation where the humid climate is very “aggressive”.
Posted April 20, 2008 Comments(2) 
My favorite place in the world is Dubai because there you will find the most impressive structures. But there’s a country that likes to keep up with the latest architectural designs - Malaysia. Everybody heard about the Petronas Twin Towers, in Kuala Lumpur. A new project called Precinct 4 will be built in Putrajaya waterfront, about 30km of Kuala Lumpur.
The Precinct 4 was designed by Studio Nicoletti Associati and Malaysian-based Hijjas Kasturi Associates, also responsible for the Putrajaya waterfront. Their idea was to design sustainable residential buildings destined to fit in well with the landscape and their inspiration came from a fleet of ships. The buildings will be powered using alternative energy and they will emit about 50 percent less CO2 than any other projects like this residential.
Posted April 11, 2008 Comments(4) 
Across the world there many architectural design competitions meant to brings new ideas for the skyscrapers of the future. One of these events is the eVolo Skyscraper Competition and the structure that caught our attention is a design made by Daekwon Park called Symbiotic Interlock.
Posted March 19, 2008 Comments(1) 
At the moment, there already are a few lands below sea level, which have to build and or maintain dams and use water draining installations to avoid being swallowed by one of the biggest force of nature: water. It gets warmer and warmer with every year and sooner or later the ice from the Poles will start to melt, rising the level of the sea and I think there’s no one on this planet that could stop or prevent this.
The designers who imagined such a masterpiece estimated that will take three years to built a floating town able to host: 18,000 living units, 3,000 commercial units, 2,400 time-share units, 10,000 hotel units, a World Class Casino, a ferryboat transportation system, a World-Class Medical Facility, a School System that gives the students a chance to take a field trip into a different Country, an International Trade Center and more than 100 acres of outdoor Park, Recreation, Exercise and Community space for the enjoyment of residents and visitors. If someone would ask me what would be the safest place to be, I’ll just tell him that I’m not afraid of water anymore.
Posted March 18, 2008 Comments(0) 
A green resort is going to be built at Lake Taupo, New Zealand. The construction will begin as of the middle of next year and it will cost about $75 million. The resort will be called Hingarae, it will be built on an area of about 40 hectares and it will be pollution-free.
The Hingarae will be accessible by boat or walking track and the transportation within will be provided by electric cars and the energy will come from the sun. The resort will feature 28 freehold modules which are going to cost about $3.2 million and each will feature two or three bedrooms.
If the technology is very futuristic then the design doesn’t remain behind. The project belongs to X.Pace a Sydney and Singapore design company which envisioned some pretty touches and also very luxurious for the Hingarae resort.
