Stunning Places

City Museum is a museum, consisting largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri. City Museum was founded by artist Bob Cassilly, who remained the museum's artistic director until his death, and his then-wife Gail Cassilly. The museum's building was once an International Shoe Company factory and warehouse but was mostly vacant when the Cassillys bought it in 1983. Construction began in January 1995 and the building opened to the public on October 25, 1997. The museum has since expanded, adding new exhibits such as MonstroCity in 2002, Enchanted Caves and Shoe Shaft in 2003, and World Aquarium in 2004. [Wiki]

Accumulation of 60 automobiles in concrete. 19,5 m. Parc de sculpture Le Montcel, Jouy-en-Josas, France. Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist and this is his creation. [Source]

The proposal to establish a monument echoing the various works of el lissitzky reveals a the notion of space and depth within three-dimensional structures. the system highlights emptiness, depth, projections - disclosing its physical absence. the project consists of a 3D orthogonal grid conforming to the size of wolkenbrugel. by subtracting, in the manner of molding, a reconstruction of the spatial presence manifests as an imaginary structure -which remains invisible but perceptible. from this imprint, the imagination of the visitor completes the virtual projection of the monument. at night, a light network reveals the virtual contours of the form -where bright spots distributed throughout the structure act as dynamic support for interventions of invited artists. [Source]

The main building in the proportions of Jin Mao Tower is the number eight, which in Chinese culture is associated with well-being. 88 floors (93 if you count the floors Belvedere) are divided into 16 segments, each of which is on the eighth shorter than sixteen-base. The skyscraper is built on an octagonal concrete central frame surrounded by eight huge composite columns and eight external steel columns. [Source]

Some 20 kilometers South of Pattaya lies the enormous Wat Yansangwararam Temple complex. Set in a huge area of around 145 acres, the complex houses several buildings of very different architectural styles, as well as well kept gardens and a large lake, that make the complex a nice and peaceful place to relax. [Source]

The concept for the Father and Son skyscraper, designed by IAMZ Studio, is divided into three main elements including the shape, style and urban design along with green areas implemented into the design. The main reason for the skyscraper typology is to decrease the crowding in the capital Cairo. [Source]

Visitors will be greeted by smiling, enthusiastic tour guides sharing the unique history of the “hunting lodge” of Commodore Frederick Gilbert Bourne. The tour guides will provide you with a 45-minute tour and narrative of the historic structure. [Source]

Barcode House explores juxtapositions between the heavy and light and the old and the new. The work is formed by positioning the project’s diverse pressures into a unique situational aesthetic. Brittle masonry walls of the existing Washington, DC row house governed that the addition be engineered as a freestanding structure. Site constraints dictated a vertically oriented spatial solution. [Source]

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990. [Source]

A picture from the Gulf of Alaska that has been making the rounds on the Internet for the last few years -- though particularly in recent weeks -- shows a strange natural phenomenon that occurs when heavy, sediment-laden water from glacial valleys and rivers pours into the open ocean. There in the gulf, the two types of water run into each other, a light, almost electric blue merging with a darker slate-blue. [Source]

Arch-shaped floating hotel, dubbed The ARK, designed to withstand the world’s rising sea levels by Russia-based architectural firm Remistudio. [Source]

The Burning Man Festival (Burning Man) is an annual seven-day course that takes place in Black Rock City, Nevada, United States. There is only during the week of Burning Man - that is, a temporary city built by the participants during the first week of September, and ends right on Labor Day. Burning Man takes place in the ruins of a lake in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, 150 miles northwest of Reno. In this year (2012) more than 53,000 people came together to create Burning Man. [Source]

Over the past 11 years, the Temple at Burning Man has evolved and grown to become a place of reflection, of remembrance and letting go; a place of union, gathering, and peacefulness. From every corner of the Burning Man Community, an International Arts Megacrew is coming together to create this year's Temple for our desert family - The Temple of Transition. [Source]

Architecture aficionados sometimes liken Bart Prince's soaring, layered residential designs to the work of John Lautner and Frank Lloyd Wright, but drive by one of his remodeling projects in South Pasadena, and you'd never suspect what hides behind the unassuming exterior. [Source]

These eye-catching balconies were part of a promotional strategy to market the range of teas produced by Niimi. These balcony cups look like they could double as barres. [Source]

Tea House!The Teapot Dome Service Station in Zillah, Washington is one example of novelty architecture listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Many such novelties were constructed as roadside attractions as the national highway system in the United States expanded during the 1920s and 1930s. [Source]

Like so many of L.A.’s great midcentury modern dwellings, John Lautner’s 1962 Garcia House had fallen on hard times by the close of the last millennium. Lautner, who died in 1994, was, of course, one of the geniuses of California modernism. In landmark projects such as the Chemosphere and Elrod houses, he established a highly personal architectural language that connected human beings to buildings and buildings to nature. [Source]

This is the alley side of a house in Beverly Hills. The front of the house was traditional, and this was created to house the now deceased owner's collection of art nouveau. [Source]