Stunning Georgian McDonald’s

This McDonald's might be the ultimate achievement in fast food architecture. Located in Batumi, Georgia, this combination gas station/McDonald's/wonderland boasts pools, cantilevered glass walls, and a raked indoor garden. The building was designed by the Georgian firm Khmaladze Architects and was completed in October 2012.

Nigerian Floating Schools

NLÉ, a collaborative agency led by Nigerian architect Kunle Adeyemi, is building a new multilevel school in Makoko – a region of Nigeria’s most populous city, Lagos. The project seeks to create floating buildings that are designed to serve as educational classrooms for neighborhood children.

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Hotel Shaped Like Human Guts

Located in an arts park near Antwerp, Belgium, this bizarrely designed hotel is actually a popular tourist attraction. Shaped like a human gut, the creation is by artist, Joep Van Lieshout and is called, “artwork to live in”. Although it all looks rather odd from the outside, travellers come for the experience of it and a room at the hotel costs £96 pounds a night ($154) and includes breakfast and entry to the sculpture park.
















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Take a Look Inside Google’s Secretive Data Centers

Google is opening a virtual window into the secretive data centers that serve as its nerve center. The unprecedented peek is being provided through a new website unveiled Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The site features photos from inside some of the eight data centers that Google Inc. already has running in the U.S., Finland and Belgium. All photos by Connie Zhou.


















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Russian QR Codes Covered Pavilion at the Venice Architeture Biennale 2012

Every surface inside the top floor of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is covered in QR codes, which visitors decode using tablet computers to explore ideas for a new Russian city dedicated to science.












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Brand New Google Office in London

Located in Covent Garden, London, the place is packed with all sorts of cozy additions that are bound to distract Google’s staff from work. The 15,000 m2 (160,000 sq. ft.) office features a gym, a massage parlor and a dance studio. There are comfortable lounges to relax and a secret garden on a rooftop offering stunning views on London’s skyline.