A short film by Alex Roman that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view.

A neat tea house up in the trees by Terunobu Fujimori in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. This looks just too cozy.

Crush Alba by Gus Wüstemann is a flat in Barcelona in the Gotico area, in the center of the historic part of Barcelona.

Vienna architects Pichler & Traupmann Architekten have completed an open-air swimming pool in the park of a 17th-century castle in Jöss, Austria. The project incorporates a partially-underground shower area with glass-panelled shelving. More

Dutch architects Ateliereen Architecten have completed a 25 metre tall viewing tower at an outdoor sports park in Reusel, the Netherlands. The structure comprises six boxes resting on a steel, structural core and incorporates abseiling and climbing facilities. The walls of the tower are made of halved logs, grown in the surrounding forest, which are slotted into the steel frames horizontally and vertically.

Inside a pier somewhere in Malmö Sweden, Nils-Petter Löfstedt and Erik Vestman created a room. Perhaps you have walked on it. Surely you would never have guessed that underneath the stone and concrete there is a livingroom with white walls and parquet floor. Via

Inspired by their 10th anniversary, the Earth Observatory has pulled together a special series of NASA satellite images documenting how our world – forests, oceans, human landscapes, even the sun – has changed during the previous decade. Shown above is the urbanisation of Dubai.

Designed by A. James Speyer and David Haid and built in 1953, the 5.300-square-foot home in Highland Park was where Cameron memorably leans on his father’s Ferrari, knocking it off a jack and sending it crashing through a glass window and into a ravine below. Could be yours for 2.3 Mio. US$. Via

Paco is a moveable white cube that offers the minimum equipment to live in such a small space: Hammock, table, toilet and shower. Via

Architects Zandbelt&vandenBerg designed an outstanding villa located at the edge of the dunes in the Hook of Holland, the Netherlands.

A new space dedicated to magazines and art publications in Berlin. MOTTO BERLIN will launch with a one week event, inviting a publication each day from the 16th until the 21st of december 2008. Their list of magazines looks really promising.

MOTTO BERLIN, Skalitzerstr. 68, 10997 Berlin

International top level artists from music, film, video, computer art and photography will show their works in a beautiful environment at the fifth edition of MADEIRA DIG – INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR DIGITAL ARTS this December, from 4th to 31st, with its epicenter from 5th to 7th at Casa das Mudas Art Centre in the pitoresque village of Calheta and also at Estalagem Ponta do Sol, the design hotel in the cliffs of Ponta do Sol, in Madeira Island.

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Holiday now. Here. By Norwegian architecture studio Fantastic Norway.

Horno 3 by Grimshaw architects is a decommissioned blast furnace in Monterrey, Mexico converted into a museum of steel.

Los Angeles-based architects Zellnerplus renovated the loft of an old toy factory to create an outstanding living and working space.