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Incredible Bamboo Architecture by Vo Trong Nghia
Bamboo is the stuff of green dreams these days. Not only is this material a winning combination of strong, lightweight and flexible; it also scores highly in the sustainable stakes, being super fast growing and easy to harvest locally in many parts of the world. What's more, it is increasingly lauded for its aesthetic qualities. None of this is news to any architect worth their salt – but one in particular, Vietnamese virtuoso Vo Trong Nghia, stands out for his exceptional bamboo designs.
Continue reading...Not Photoshopped: Just Incredible Forced Perspective Photography
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
From Gulliver’s Travels to Alice in Wonderland, the idea of people shrinking and growing has proven endlessly fascinating. What if, we wonder, we were that big or that small? Then along came mass produced cameras, and easy as eating a cake that says “EAT ME”, the more adroit shooters among us were able to realise just such size-shifting exploits – or at least the illusion of having done so. Places around the globe provide backdrops for these fine examples of forced perspective.
Continue reading...5 Highest Bungee Jumps on Earth
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Yet since bungee jumping became commercial at the hands of elastic-thinking New Zealand entrepreneur A J Hackett, the heights from which the man on the street can now leap with nothing but a giant rubber band attached to his ankles have just got bigger. And bigger. And bigger. Here are the highest jumps from fixed objects to date. Steel yourself for some vertiginous views.
Continue reading...The Destructive Beauty of Demolitions
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Out of destruction comes creation, for good or for bad. Like any living organism and everything else, a building has a life-cycle. And when that reaches its natural conclusion, work needs to be done to knock it down so the site can be used for something else – another Wal-Mart, perhaps, or a new Ikea. Yet whatever else may be raised on the grave of the structure being razed, demolition itself can be a thing of beauty.
Continue reading...11 Most Suggestive Structures on Earth
Monday, July 13, 2009
Suggestive cacti, boob buildings and now phallic structures – yes, we admit, there’s something on our minds here at Environmental Graffiti. But with all that suggestive material out there on the Net, what can we do? After going through hundreds of suggestive pics, here’s our very own Top 13 of phallic buildings. It’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it…
Continue reading...Architects Who Had Breasts on their Mind
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The article was proving hard to get to grips with. Fingers cramped from repeated clicking, retinas burned by pixels formed into many shapes and sizes, brain fried from over stimulation, the lonely writer laboured on, all but spent. Image search after image search was yielding many a distraction or two, but the deadline was looming larger still. It was too late to shirk from the knockers now.
Continue reading...Incredible Solar Facing House
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Shaun from Deputy Dog has reavealed the lengths some people will go to to get a suntan. In an attempt to have sunlight 24/7, Italian ship engineer, Angelo Invernizzi, from Marcellise, and his architect friend Ettore Fagiouli created a house that rotates to face the sun all year-round. Sporting a 43 meter tower and weighing a whopping 1,500 tons the wedged shaped...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
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