The Barbie Style

The Barbie Apartment

The Parisian hotel «Plaza Athenée» will offer clients unusual service — exclusive apartments with interior of the Barbie style. Especially for this target has been completely converted two luxury apartments, after transformation they became similar to residence of the famous doll.

The Barbie Room

Internal territory of apartments abounds with pink color, rooms are arranged by furniture into style of the Barbie World. Residing cost in such apartment: ~ €1,600-€2,500/night. Also, to young travelers from 3-16 years the hotel will present an exclusive gift from Barbie manufacturer — Mattel Company.

The Penthouse In London is Sold For $220 Million

The magnificent penthouse with six bedrooms in the London Housing Estate the One Hyde Park has been sold for the record sum of 220 million dollars that automatically gives them the status of the most expensive private apartment in the world.

Apartments for oligarchical persons

New owners will have access to the 24-hour service in apartments of hotel Mandarin Oriental: SPA, platforms for squash, wine tastings and protection of security guards which are the former members of SAS, elite division of the British armies.

The penthouse occupying two floors, has «a disturbing room» where it's possible to disappear at the moment of danger, and bulletproof windows from which the tremendous kind on Snake Lake in Hyde Park opens.

One Hyde Park. London. Great Britain

White interior

Wishes of the customer of the given interior were accurate and simple. The apartment should be similar to apartment of the architect — spacious, filled with light and white.

Fine lay-out of apartment

The apartment is on the top floor of the residential building located in the east of the city of Graz. The house is very successfully located, subcentral, comfortable — with access to balconies and private court yard, with a fine lay-out of apartments.

Having dismantled the majority of walls, architects have transformed standard four-room apartment into a spacious penthouse. There, where division of zones was necessary, glass walls are used.

Architectural minimalism

In apartment there is all necessary; a toilet for visitors, a boiler and the washing machine — all it behind mirror partitions. Architects used the limited number of materials; glass, white furniture, textiles and special gravel for a floor covering.

Valley of dinosaurs for the Chinese megacity

Two towers in height of 60 floors everyone will grow in the Chinese city of Hangchow, thanks to practising architects from UNStudio.

Their form has reminded us the very tall dinosaurs living on a planet the Earth once.
The project has received name Raffles City, the trading areas, offices, apartments and hotel here will be placed.

“The project philosophy — to integrate multifunctionality into a city context so that the architectural object was entered in a city landscape”, — the author of the project speaks Ben van Berkel.

Total area of buildings — 300 000 square metres. It is planned to finish building in 2012 year.

New York from boxes in campaign IKEA

New York agency Deutsch has started campaign for IKEA, dated for opening on June, 18th, 2008 new shop in Brooklyn, the first in New York.

In campaign sights of New York are beaten "sign" flat packing of furniture IKEA which is considered in the Swedish corporation hardly probable not a precept, and also. Have united them in a single whole, having constructed from boxes symbols of New York and having allocated with that the message on a geographical arrangement of new shop, and also on new service — delivery this very day.

Empire State Building, the Brooklyn bridge and the Brooklyn water towers have been constructed actually, without application of a computer drawing.

Them has designed and the artist and architect John Hobbs has constructed of more than 1000 boxes.

The greatest length at the Brooklyn bridge — 96 foots (29 metres), and height at Empire State Building — 21 foot (7 metres)

Architectural constructions have taken part in television rollers, printing and the outdoor advertising. 4 "apartments-exhibitions" in the size 20 on 20 foots arranged with furniture IKEA and located in streets of New York are besides involved.