Mclaren 720S Spider
The 720S Spider, revealed at McLaren’s annual Winter Ball, weighs just 49kg more than the McLaren 720S coupé. The 720S Spider uses a retractable hard-top roof, which is a completely new design over the previous 650S Spider. It is a single piece of carbon fiber, aimed at preserving as much of the coupé’s style as possible. The electrically driven mechanism raises and lowers the roof in just 11sec, a 6sec improvement over the 650S Spider.…
National Museum of Qatar
The new national museum of Qatar is currently being built in the country's capital Doha, designed by architect Jean Nouveland. This museum located on a 1.5 million-square-foot site and is expected to complete in 2019. It will be formed from a pile of interlocking disks of various dimensions made from steel clad in glass-reinforced concrete. According to the architect, the building is meant to represent both the country's desert location alongside the sea. "Everything in…
Ice Canyon, Greenland
Ice Canyon or Greenland’s Grand Canyon is probably the most photographed place in Greenland. The name Ice Canyon best describes the place. The Canyon is actually a huge pit buried underneath the ice sheet. This majestic canyon, artfully carved by nature itself – formed by meltwater. It is one of the places where you can enjoy the amazing scenes of water flowing deep through giant icebergs. The Ice Canyon runs from the central region of…
Bahamas, Atlantic Ocean
The Bahamas is a coral-based archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. Its 700-plus islands and cays range from uninhabited to residential islands, packed with resorts. Grand Bahama and Paradise Island, located at the northernmost point of Bahamas, are home to many large-scale hotels such as Atlantis Resort, and are of this country’s best known islands. Among Bahama’s famous scuba diving and snorkeling sites include the massive Andros Barrier Reef, Thunderball Grotto (used in James Bond films)…
The Antwerp Port House, Belgium
The Port House designed by Zaha Hadid Architects renovates and extends a derelict fire station into a new headquarters building for the Port of Antwerp in Belgium (Europe’s second largest shipping port). These three key principles define the design’s composition of new and old: a new volume that ‘floats’ above the old building, respecting each of the old facades and completing the verticality of the original design’s unrealized tower. The client requirements for an ‘activity…
