Gunes Peksen//Concept Wave House

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AFinnishHouse//InteriorExteriorAsOne

On a remote horse-shoe shaped island here on a lake with water, stained the color of root beer by minerals in the sediment, a small dark house peers out from behind a thicket of fir trees.
"You can imagine that you've traveled 3,000 years back," said Petteri Knudsen, the owner. "And it was all the same." More here....

PortageBayFloatingHome//Seattle

more info, including slide show, here...

BotaBota//MontrealFloatingSpa

Bota Bota is a floating Scandinavian spa in the heart of Montreal's Old Port. In 2008, Sid Lee Architects were hired to recycle and reinvent the space, tranforming a 57 year old ferry boat into a multisensory world, inspired by the aquatic environment and the rich history of the ship and her surroundings.

ZahaHadid~ArchitecturalJewelryDesign

...the Glace collection infuses the Iraq-born architect's trademark alien forms with sprays of colored crystals, which Hadid says were inspired by Bird of Paradise flowers...

underthesky/underthesea/simplepoeticgestures

Designed by Steve Holl Architects, the Cite de L'Ocean et du Surf Museum intends to raise awareness of oceanic issues and explore educational and scientific aspects of the surf and sea and their role upon our leisure, science and ecology...



the design revolves around a central place that Holl describes as 'open to sky and sea, the horizon in the distance,'
...simple, poetic, gestures...