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Mind-Boggling Model Airport is World’s Largest

designgid team — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:46:29 +0000

The world's largest miniature airport has gone on display at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany. Miniatur Wunderland is also home to the world's largest model railroad landscape. The model airport is based off of Hamburg's Fuhlsbüttel International airport. The display took 7 years and roughly $4.8 million to build. The model includes a whopping list of accessories, including 40 planes, 40,000 lights, 15,000 figurines, 500 cars, 10,000 trees, 50 trains, 1000 wagons, 100 signals, 200 switches and 300 buildings. Check amazing video after the photos.

Remote Majestic Residence with Breathtaking Views

designgid team — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:40:21 +0000

While designing this amazing residence, it is said that nothing has been left to chance and all the boundaries between land, sea and the shape of the house were blurred. You are looking at a building that brings the landscape indoors so that the inhabitants enjoy a panoramic view like no other. Designed by architect John Robert Nilsson and located in Värmdö, Sweden, this spectacular home only measures 250 square feet and was built from limestone, concrete, glass, black plaster, ash and steel frames.

Alila Villas Soori by SCDA Architects

designgid team — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:01:58 +0000

Planted within the lush green of Balinese rice terraces, the Alila Villas Soori is the first luxury boutique resort in West Bali. Designed with Singapore based SCDA architects at the helm, the 48 Villas are exquisite, representing the finest in luxury while enabling the most complete relaxation. The resort is the newest creation by the Alila Hotels and Resorts group that has become renowned for its incredible, unparalleled destinations scattered throughout Southeast Asia. Each is developed and finally constructed with extreme emphasis placed on well-integrated and eco-friendly design. Architecturally an inspired expression of a seamless blend of contemporary Asian design and the richness of the landscape, the resort, and each of its pool villas, enjoys uninhibited views of the deep azure of the Indian Ocean or the equally as enchanting green of the surrounding rice fields, and no compromises in privacy are made.

The Garden That Climbs The Steps by Balmori Associates

designgid team — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:49:37 +0000

The New York based landscape and urban design office of Balmori Associates has designed the “Garden That Climbs The Steps” in Bilbao, Spain. According to designers: "The garden climbs the stairs, running in undulating lines of different textures and colors. Envisioned as a dynamic urban space; it moves in time and with the seasons. Its lush planting cascades down as though the garden was flowing or melting, bleeding the colors into each other. In one gesture, it narrates a story of landscape taking over and expanding over the Public Space and Architecture, therefore transforming the way that the stairs and the space is perceived and read by the user. It is a garden of contrasts: the contrast between native and exotic plants, between the red flowers and the green grass, between the green grass and the grey paving. In form, the garden engages the horizontal plaza with the rising vertical plane of the steps and the upright gesture of Eduardo Chillida’s sculpture. Like the famous Spanish Steps in Rome, the garden is not only designed for visitors to ascend and descend, but for them to linger, and just be."