Inner Solace

Small, tidily-designed Korean-Italian hybrid house - Core77

Traditional Korean hanok on the outside, modern on the inside. WANT.

Turn a 6000-book library into an intimate living space - The Bookshelf Apartment (via Gizmodo Australia)

(via tofu)

Nice organic looking building. :)

A Modern Castle With 1,000 Uniquely-Shaped Windows - Architecture - io9

[It was] designed by Austrian artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and built during the 1990s … Its diagonal roof is covered with grass, shrubs and trees and the facade follows an irregular grid organization. Waldspirale has over 1,000 windows, but no two are the same. The handles on the apartment doors and the windows are also unique.

Holy Batman! A Subterranean Mansion! With A Water Slide! | Gizmodo Australia

Want. Now.

disoriented:

Creator to unveil hotel in the clouds | News.com.au (via rhodeskc)

This vertical air ship - complete with penthouse, four duplex apartments, five smaller ones and glass viewing floors - will be lifted by hydrogen and propelled by solar power, leaving no carbon footprint.

Because, apparently, we have learned nothing from the Hindenburg.

_{Though the concept is kind of cool.}

In total agreement on both counts.

travors:

Mitsubishi bought a reef and built it out into an artificial island, a kilometer long, so the company would have a base for undersea coal mining operations in the area. And for many years, it was the world’s most densely populated place, with 85,500 people per square kilometer in 1959 — and 135,000 people per square kilometer in the densest areas.

The name, Gunkanjima, is Japanese for “Battleship Island,” because the artificial island resembles a battleship when seen from the ocean. The island was completely closed down in 1975, when the coal ran out, and now it’s quite possibly the world’s largest ghost town. It looks like a dark fortress, its shadowy walls looming like death.

10 Weirdest Urban Ecosystems On Earth - Cities - io9