Living in a Shell (10 pics)

This amazing house was build in 2006 by Arquitectura Orgánica. A young couple with two children from Mexico City who after living in a conventional home wanted to change to one integrated to nature. The goal of this project was to make it feel like an internal inhabitant of a snail, like a mollusk moving from one chamber to another, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister.

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Amazing Jaffa Apartment by Pitsou Kedem Architect (19 pics)

Old meets new in this amazing apartment rehab in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Jaffa Apartment by Pitsou Kedem Architect is a design than maintains the architectural history of its building while pushing the envelope with a progressive, minimal interior. The apartment’s cavernous, brick-stone supports and ceiling have been left nude, unadorned with alterations that would only detract from their beauty. 

 The lighting, the art and the furniture follow this focus on simplicity, performing their duties while not drawing the eyes from the grand appearance of the building. Another prime feature of this apartment is its view of the Mediterranean, where a small wrap-around balcony reaches into the seas. It is high living in this Tel Aviv environment, where history meets modern, minimal design.

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Eat Underwater in Ithaa Restaurant, Maldives (9 pics)

Ithaa, which means mother of pearl in Dhivehi, is a mostlyacrylic underwater restaurant secured five metres below sea level atthe Conrad Maldives Rangali Island in Rangalifinolhu, Maldives.The five-by-nine meter restaurant has a capacity of 14 people and is encased inR-Cast acrylic which is a transparent acrylic roof offering a 180° panoramicview. The restaurant was designed and constructed by M.J. MurphyLtd. – a design consultancy based in New Zealand – and was opened on April 15,2005. Food served in the restaurant has evolved over the years and is now bestdescribed as contemporary European with Asian influences.

Ithaa‘s entrance is a spiral staircase in a thatchedpavilion at the end of a jetty. The tsunami which followed the 2004 IndianOcean earthquake topped out at 0.31m below the staircase entrance, and causedno damage to the restaurant.

In April 2010, to celebrate the restaurant’s 5thanniversary, it was made possible to sleep in Ithaa for the night ifthe restaurant was not booked for dinner. The restaurant is also usedfor private parties and weddings.

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Exact Replica Of Pixar’s ‘Up!’ House Built In Utah (7 pics)

Bangerter Homes just finished building this 2,800 square foot exact replica of Disney/Pixar's 'Up!' house. And it's EXACT. Every tiny detail from the famous house has been painstakingly recreated. Best news of all: you can buy it for only $400,000!

Click HERE to see  Disney's"Up" House Created in Real Life and Flown for National GeographicShow

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Millau Viaduct - The Tallest Bridge in the World

The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed road-bridge that spans the valley of the river Tarn near Millau in southern France. Designed by the French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and British architect Norman Foster, it is the tallest bridge in the world, with one mast's summit at 343.0 metres (1,125 ft).


The viaduct is part of the A75-A71 autoroute axis from Paris to Montpellier. Construction cost was approximately €400 million.