Kim Holtermand

I spent ages on Kim Holtermand's website this past weekend. There are so many incredible & eerie architectural/landscape photographs on there....

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The Best Urinal Ever

Piss like you have never pissed before! Hold it in until you have loads in your bladder and unleash it on what is potentially, the best urinal ever! Its called a Thermochromic urinal and it basically reacts on the temperature of your urine to create a psychedelic trip to the mens room.

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The Tallest Treehouse In The World

So some crazy guy has gotten himself into the Guinness World record books by building the worlds tallest treehouse in Tennessee. In 1993, Horace Burgess claims that God told him to build and to keep building so that's what he has ended up doing! The house is supported by 6 oak tree pillars and is approximately 100 feet tall now...

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40 Gigapixel Photo of Strahov Library

Photographer Jeffrey Martin has created a 360-degree image of the Strahov Library made from nearly 3,000 individual photos, stitched together to create the 360-degree effect. It's actually hosted on a really cool site that has lots of other locations for you to check out...

Click HERE to see Sinai, Egypt or HERE to see the refuse collector in Jakarta, Indonesia...

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DELTA show in Amsterdam

DELTA recently completed an installation/show called, "Subduction Zones" at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam....

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Britains Largest Home Aquarium

"Jack Heathcote has converted the cellar of his five-bedroom house into Britain’s biggest domestic aquarium.
The 37-year-old, who lives in the Carlton district of Nottingham, has created a private underwater world in the basement of his five-bedroom home, filled with exotic species usually only seen in such far-flung corners of the world as the Amazon and Congo.

Jack paid just £700 for the glass panels and £800 for the fibreglass lining, adding that the tank cost him £5,000 in total to build. He has also stuck to simple decoration in the tank, which includes large, smooth boulders along with the branches of a damson tree which he chopped in half.

The tank is an L-shape from front to back, meaning that the space immediately behind the bay window is 7ft deep, while the rest of the floor space is subdivided by a ledge that used to be the foundation for the window.

And the collection in the tank - which includes some valuable species - consists of two chainsaw doradids, three 2ft long Pacus, some Pangasius, a Red tail hybrid catfish, two alligator gars, eight enormous stingrays and two Fly River turtles.

They will soon be joined by two silver arowanas, which are more commonly found in the Amazon River Basin."

To be honest, I love the concept but surely he could have put more effort into decorating it with natural vegetation for the fish & turtles??

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Wall Of Knowledge Concept Design

This is a great render-design by the Architecture School of Paris for a potential look of the new Stockholm Library....

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Memoires Industrielle Writers Show

Great images of French writers, DARK, DSPRI, Keyla, MIKOZ, SPAZM, SPOT and XEROU found on the Photograffcollectif Blog...they have a show going up in France entitled, "Memoires Industrielle" right about now that looks sick!

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Toshio Shibata Photography

Brilliant 'architectural' photography Toshio Shibata....

"The photographs of Toshio Shibata convey a powerful drama generated by the conflict of natural forces against man-made structures. Water spills, crashes, glides, and pours over walls, sluices, concrete blocks and channels, in an endless gravity- propelled dance. Huge structures wind around highways and grasp the hillsides on which they are built."

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"Under Shibata’s eye, the man-altered landscape becomes a mysterious abstract composition in which the shapes and patterns intrinsic to both the natural and artificial forms becomes visible."

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Pirate Ship Bedroom Design

This mad pirate-themed bedroom was designed for the son of doting father, Steve Kuhl of Kuhl Design Build co. This is one very lucky kid. Let's just hope he doesn't get into Star Wars or Transformers anytime soon!

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New York Collectors Loft

"UNstudio's design for an existing loft located in greenwich village in Manhattan, New York. It explores the interaction between a gallery and living space. The main walls in the loft flow through the space, and together with articulated ceilings create hybrid conditions in which exhibition areas merge into living areas." I'm not personally the biggest fan of what they have on their walls and the particular sculptures they have, but I know that if this was MY place, it'd rock....

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Optical Illusion Bookshelf

This optical illusion bookshelf was designed by John Leung from Clarke Hopkins Clarke Architects, "the bookshelf looks cartoony and almost invisible but that's not even the real illusion, the real mind bender is that there are what seems like 4 shelves on the left side but only 3 shelves on the right side"

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Modern House Design in Lithuania

Architektu Biuras G.Natkevičius are the architects responsible for this original design in Lithuania. "The architects preserved the architectural remains, an old yellow brick lodge with a basement, by wrapping it with an outer glass construction."

 "Thanks to the glass shell, the ground floor area offers a 360 degrees view of the regional park surrounding the house."

"In the basement we find a turkish bath with a rest room, a garage for two cars and a library for the ancient book collection of the owners. In the ground floor we find the living and dining room, the kitchen, a wardrobe and the children’s rooms. In the attic we find the master bedroom."

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