Awesome Architecture

London, England’s Embassy Gardens housing development will be home to this 90 foot-long, 8 inch-thick glass swimming pool which will span two of the complexes 10-story apartment buildings, floating 115 feet off the ground.

From the makers of the ESCAPE portable home comes one of the coziest RVs you’ll ever see. The Traveler has a cedar, glass and steel exterior and comes with a 30″ fridge, thermostat, water heater, and lots of possible add-ons.

Workers can take advantage of these mobile workspaces outside of Amsterdam, which use converted old trailers to create impromptu offices in the Dutch countryside, complete with Wi-Fi, coffee makers and compost toilets.

NOEM made the Spaceship Home for a customer who wanted to enjoy the great view of their lot in Madrid, Spain. Aside from its Space Age exterior, the first thing you see when you open its front door is its retro sci-fi home automation controls.

Natura Vive provides the ultimate lodgings for adventurers, with its Skylodge suites. These transparent luxury rooms hang from a Peruvian mountainside, and can only be reached by a 1300 ft. climb or a lengthy hike and zipline trail.

Architects Haim Dotan designed this awe-inspiring bridge to float 984ft. above China’s Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, offering up to 800 pedestrians incredible thrills as they look straight down to the bottom. Opens 10/2015.

EarthCam presents one of the longest time spanning time-lapses you’ll ever see. Watch One World Trade Center’s 11-year construction – from October 2004 to May 2015 – in under 2 minutes.

Architect Jeffrey Pelletier talks to Houzz about his remodeled basement, where he stores about 250,000 LEGO pieces. The toys are organized by type or color on hundreds of bins and drawers mounted on custom made shelves.

Weltevree’s Groundfridge is a small prefabricated root cellar. Instead of building a traditional shed, just bury the Groundfridge in about 3ft. of soil and its storage area will stay at 50ºF to 54ºF all year round.

Austrian artist Klemens Torggler creates these amazing doors which open and close by rotating two panels around pivot points, and need no tracks to operate. We want all of our walls made out of these things.

Snowboarder Mike Basich has fully embraced the outdoor lifestyle, and now lives in a tiny 225 square foot organic structure he built from stone and wood in the middle of his 40-acre property. Naturally, there’s plenty of snow outside.

By using prefab modules, a Chinese construction company completed a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days, sometimes at a rate of three floors per day. Their reduced use of concrete means it’s more eco-friendly as well. Time-lapse at 1:53.

Build tiny, intricate urban landscapes with these full-color 3D printed blocks, inspired by architecture from major cities around the world. They snap into a special baseplate which can even house LED illumination for their windows.

Peter Cohen’s house came with feral cats who got hurt because they stayed outdoors. So he made sure that the cats would want to stay inside. He built cat walkways, tunnels and even ventilated litter boxes. He now has 15 happy rescue cats.

Designed by Alireza Taghaboni, the Sharifi-ha House in Tehran, Iran has three rotating bedrooms. They can face outwards to give residents a view of the city or inwards for warmth and privacy. More at Arch Daily.

An immensely satisfying demonstration of craftsmanship as two Japanese carpenters show the kind of precision required to perfectly interlock a pair of wooden beams into an extremely strong unified structure.

Bureau A’s Antoine is a house and a sculpture in one. The wooden cabin blends in the rocky hillside of the Swiss Alps thanks to its irregular concrete exterior. Inside it is a fireplace, bed, table, stool and window. More at designboom.

A set of eight 1.25″ square blocks made from natural and composite building materials including maple, bakelite, cork, granite, EVA, silicone, acrylic, and aluminum. Building a structure out of these could get expensive quick.

Designed by architect Keiichi Kiriyama of Airhouse, this incredible home in Jiyugaoka, Japan is almost entirely constructed from concrete – from the walls to the floors to the countertops and ceilings.

Paris, France is renowned for its tiny apartments. The designers at Kitoko Studio came up with a way to cram an entire living space, including bed, storage, dining, bathroom and kitchenette inside what amounts to a closet – just 86 square feet.

Designed by Alex Chinneck, Take My Lightning But Don’t Steal My Thunder appears to be a stone building with its upper half suspended in mid-air. The polystyrene structure is actually supported by a thin steel frame at its corners.

Amsterdam’s Heldergroen looks like your typical boutique design shop during the work day, but at the close of business, all of the work surfaces fly up into the ceiling on steel cables, clearing the space so it can be used for after-work events.

Designed and produced in Belgium, B-And-Bee are honeycomb-style sleeping cells for festivals and other large outdoor gatherings. The cells are waterproof and have enough room for two people to sleep in.