The main design idea of this amazing luxury hotel was to create an illusion of a dolphin couple swimming in a mirage, therefore the form of dolphins was applied as the mass motif. The hotel architecture is mainly divided into three buildings, the residential hotel, the marina hotel, and the Berthage and marina club. As [...]

Korean Pavilion exhibition place is open for visitors from May 1 until October 31, at the 2010 Shanghai’s “Better City, Better Life,” Expo, an architectural expo which is expected to be the largest world expo to date. Using ‘convergence’ as the main theme, the Korea Pavilion is a combination of ’sign’ (symbol) and ’space’. Han-geul, [...]

Created by Spanish-born Patricia Urquiola of Milan-based Studio Urquiola, W Retreat & Spa was set on the undiscovered island of Vieques with 30-acres of beachfront property off the southeast coast of Puerto Rico. W Retreat & Spa – Vieques Island offers a unique travel experience and an entrée into W’s “new way to escape,” blending [...]

Aiming to create a family home for himself, his wife, and his four boys, architect George Papadopoulos built his own wonderful house in Lemesos, Cyprus. The house was fitted into its surrounding environment of both traditional two storey stone and adobe single family dwellings, and some small old industrial buildings. The house had to be [...]