Loving this wall, can’t imagine the time and effort it would have taken…

Bleu Nature, a France based manufacturer who’s products always have a distinctive natural feeling through their frequent use of unconventional organic materials, have created wall panels called “Pixels Of Driftwood In Relief.”

via CONTEMPORIST.

Of course they do only get about 4 weeks of summer in Norway (kidding!)…

The Summer house is located on the coast of Vestfold in the southern part of Norway. The house replaces an older building at the site. To get the planning permit, the project had to be well adjusted to the terrain, both in terms of shape, scale, material and color.

via ArchDaily.

Love this water tower conversion…

The water tower, which dates from 1931, was converted into an unparalled twenty-first-century home spread over nine levels. Many challenges are faced in the design: letting more daylight in and strengthening the relationship with the back courtyard by inserting a three-level high window frame; maintaining the interior’s industrial characteristics by working with materials like steel, concrete and glass; and in the tower, ensuring an effective, efficient layout for several small round rooms that lay one on top of the other, while preserving the tower’s spaciousness.

via ArchDaily.

Fittingly, the design of their house blurs the boundary between the city and the landscape. From the ground floor courtyard to the highest roof deck, space and light are manipulated to create spaces at once connected to the glimpses of sky, city and horizon, while maintaining privacy from the immediate urban environment.

via CONTEMPORIST

There’s not much to say about these images of the Hoover Dam Bypass except expletives mixed with a dozen shades of amazement. It’s not the longest or the tallest or the biggest or the complexest, and still, it’s stunning:

via Gizmodo.