Posted on January 31, 2008 by Admin
The Church - Cathedral of Cordoba Spain, popularly know as the Mosque of Cordoba or the “Mezquita”, stands over a Christian church built in the Visigothic period (5th C).
In 711, after Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, it was used as a Mosque. In 786, Abd al-Rahman I tore down St Vicente church and erected [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by Admin
Owner: Mukesh Ambani, chairman, Reliance Industries
Cost to build: $1 billion
Size: 570 feet, 27 floors (including six floors of parking for Ambani’s 168 cars), 48,000 square feet
Features: Ceilings double the height of normal building ceilings; an entertainment floor including a 50-person movie theater; three floors of terrace gardens including an interpretation of the hanging gardens of [...]
Filed under: Skyscrapers | Tagged: Antilia Tower, Munbai, India, Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 26, 2008 by Admin
Bridges are often considered to belong to the engineer’s realm rather than the architect’s. But the architecture of infrastructure has [...]
Filed under: Giant Structure | Tagged: France, Giant Structure, Millau Viaduct, World Highest Viaduct | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 23, 2008 by thebuilderadmin
A modern design made by Laila Kolostyák. Bar, walls, seats, tables, ramp with sledge, a map of the Artic, a life-size igloo where you can get in. Everything is made with natural ice from the lakes of Lapland. There is even a screen made of ice and snow where customers can enjoy film projection [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2008 by thebuilderadmin
Modern Toilet is a restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan with a modern decor and a full-on toilet theme. All 100 seats in the crowded diner are made from toilet bowls, not chairs. . Sink faucets and gender-coded “WC” signs appear throughout the three-storey facility, one of 12 in an island-wide chain of eateries. Would you like [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008 by Admin
Dolce & Gabbana have opened a new restaurant with an entirely gold interior, not real gold to be exact. What’s next? Gold Ferrari?
The designers are set to open their first restaurant, Gold, on Via Poerio in Milan. The 202-seat boite, just behind the duo’s Metropol show space, sports a first-floor gourmet restaurant, a ground-floor [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2008 by Admin
The Umeda Sky Building is the seventh-tallest building in Osaka City, Japan. This 173m (568 feet) building was designed by Hiroshi Hara and was constructed by Takenaka Corporation and was completed in 1993. It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like [...]
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Posted on January 14, 2008 by Admin
If you are an expat or a foreign investor living is Spain who is looking in putting together a new venue, being a bar, a restaurant or a night club, looking for the right guys to help you make your dream come true can sometimes be a frustrating task.
Filed under: Builders & Designers | Tagged: American Restaurant, Bar, Bodega, Café, Chill Out, Diner, English Pub, French Brasserie, Gothic, Ice Bar, Lounge, Night Club, Posada, Saloon, Sport Bar, Taberna | No Comments »
Posted on January 10, 2008 by Admin
Experience a whole new dining experience in the world’s first ever undersea restaurant, brought to you by Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa, this undersea restaurant is known as Ithaa, which translate as “pearl” in the natives’ language in Maldives, Dhivehi.
This undersea restaurant cost less than $5 million and is part of a project to rebuilt [...]
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