Architecture

Architectural Striptease – It’s a Dry Heat

By Erin Feher

For most folks, rain may inspire getting cozy under the sheets with company, but for me there’s nothing like the dry, scorching heat of the desert to get my blood boiling, especially if I was camped out in this gold-plated modernist mansion wearing nothing but 24-karat aviators.

Acido Dorado is the realization of architect Robert Stone’s psychedelicvision. The architecture itself: extra-deep steps that slow your pace,exterior walls that open up completely to the [ Read More...]

The World’s Most Expensive Hotel

By Veronica Christina

Brought to you by people who have more money that Scrooge McDuck comes Singapore’s latest $8 billion dollar tourist attraction, The Marina Bay Sands hotel. Three towers standing 55 stories tall and connected at the top by a huge cruise-ship shaped “Sky Park”, the new hotel aims to put Las Vegas excess to shame. Designed by architect Moshe Safdie, the hotel has 2,560 rooms starting at $500 a night, an infinity pool three [ Read More...]

Designer Turns Studio Apartment into 24 Rooms

By Ike Edeani

While living in San Diego a few years back I had a 400-square-foot studio apartment in the University Heights district. In an effort to conserve space I bought a sofa bed from IKEA, a cleverly designed piece with wheels that locked into place, making it easy to fold and unfold. I soon realized that I was usually either too busy or too tired to make the change (or to replace the upholstery with [ Read More...]

Let’s Get Busy Here – Teeny Tiny Hotels

By Veronica Christina

Traveling is awesome. Traveling to the world’s destination cities is even better. Traveling to awesome cities and having to dip into your child’s college fund for a hotel room you only sleep in, not so much. In an effort to save our cash and provide us with the oh-so-photographic novelty of touching all four sides of our hotel room at once, The Arch Group has designed Sleep Box. A mobile cube (2m (l) [ Read More...]

The End of the World = Good Design

By Erin Feher

I’m kind of obsessed with apocalyptic scenarios. Loved the black plague, burned through “The Road” in two days flat and almost every New Year’s Eve I pop 28 Days Later into the DVD player. I know, I know, I’m just some spoiled white girl who craves the excitement of turmoil because I’ve never really lived through it. Maybe, but I’ve also watched the general population become increasing frustrated [ Read More...]

Artificial Insemination

By Erin Feher
I’ve been getting blasted with images of all the architectural T&A popping up at the Shanghai World Expo, and one in particular has got me riled.  At the Seed Cathedral, 60,000 glowing fiber-optic rods jut out at the viewer, displaying a seed implanted in its tip. If you ask me, that’s not a hypersexual metaphor like Jackass isn’t a sado-masochistic homoerotic showdown. And the architecture crowds are simply exploding in [ Read More...]