Beckham Creek Cave Lodge puts you directly in touch with nature while providing all the amenities of modern technology. With it’s perfect blend of magnificent beauty and superior design this modern accommodation is truly
a fit for royalty. Come to Arkansas and experience this natural wonder.

Set on a 280 acre estate, the Beckham Creek Cave Lodge was built with the philosophy that the ongoing preservation of natural beauty is paramount. With its perfect blend of magnificent craftsmanship and technology, it took nearly four years to complete. Everywhere one looks, the superior design and attention to detail is obvious.

Putting you directly in touch with nature, the lodge boasts natural living cave walls and ceilings. By maximizing window areas along the wall facing outside, and maintaining large, open living spaces, natural sunlight floods the living area, game room, and kitchen, bringing the outdoors inside the cave....
 

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Hesco

HESCO Bastion Concertainer® has been a key component in providing Force Protection since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and is used by major military organisations around the world.

HESCO Concertainer® is a prefabricated, multi-cellular system, made of Alu-Zinc coated steel welded mesh and lined with non-woven polypropylene geotextile. It can be delivered flat-packed on standard timber skids/pallets or in RAID*** configuration. Units can be extended and joined using the provided joining pins and filled with available material using minimal manpower and commonly available equipment.

HESCO Concertainer® can be installed in various configurations to provide effective and economical structures tailored to the specific threat and level of protection required. It is used extensively in the protection of personnel, vehicles, equipment and facilities in military, peacekeeping, humanitarian and civilian operations.

Explore the site and find out how HESCO Concertainer® can be used to protect your personnel and key assets. 

***Rapid In - Theatre Deployment of Container Units.  See Video

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Sand Bag Houses!

 A house built out of sand bags, and then covered in adobe, a natural building material comprised of sand, water, clay and straw, or similar materials

Heather Benning Doll House

 A human sized doll house made from an abandoned farm house. Quite cool!!

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Caravans!

I liked the idea of these caravans, but it seems to be an outdoor theatre set!
 

Diller and Scofidio's Blur Building

The Blur Building was built for the Swiss Expo 2002 on Lake Neuchatel. It is an architecture of atmosphere. The lightweight tensegrity structure measures 300 feet wide by 200 feet deep by 75 feet high. The primary building material is indigenous to the site, water. Water is pumped from the lake, filtered, and shot as a fine mist through 31,500 high-pressure mist nozzles. A smart weather system reads the shifting climactic conditions of temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and processes the data in a central computer that regulates water pressure...

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Lazerian Mensa Collection

Lazerian’s experimentation with plywood over the
past two years has culminated in the creation of a
new collection of furniture. Starting from a hands on
exploration of plywood, Richard Sweeney and
Liam Hopkins created a series of models with
various connecting methods, including bolting
and self-interlock. With the use of a CNC (computer
numerically controlled) router, these models were
further advanced to find structural forms capable
of supporting weight...

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Lazerian Cardboard furniture range

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Coalesse Bob Lounge Chair

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Allermuir Obelisk

 

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Allermuir Bison

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Allermuir Tsunami

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Twister Restaurant, Kiev - The Cool Hunter

Twister is a newly opened restaurant in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The design team, Sergey Makhno and Vasily Butenko also of Kiev, work on residential and commercial interiors and architecture but we are particularly fascinated by their furniture and their sculptural approach to interiors. We wrote about one of their office projects a while ago.

In Twister, the duo has captured the upward pull of a tornado in the main two-storey dining area with furnishings that seem to hover above the floor on their super-slim legs, with light fixtures resembling rain drops, and with massive sculptural columns that are in fact crow's-nest balconies.

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Dixon Turner

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Danskina

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Wood Floor

Basketball courts and sports halls usually are finished with a wooden floor

Wood Floor

Audi showroom using a solid maple wood floor.

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Camper store by TAF - IconEye

Sweden’s first Camper store has opened in Malmö, designed by TAF. The inspiration for the design came from ice cream and hundreds-and-thousands.

The unlikely source of inspiration has been used to create tables, stools and a cash desk in solid birch with legs and cross bars shaped like ice cream sticks, stained in solid pastel colours. The rest of the store is white with vanilla-coloured rubber curtains lining the walls, hiding the shop stock. The rubber curtains are a sly reference to melting ice cream...

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Mestia Airport - IconEye

Jürgen Mayer H summarises the brief for the airport in Mestia, a highland townlet in Georgia's Caucasus Mountains: "Design an airport building in one day, to be built in three months, for up to 25 passengers, including a tower."

There was no airport in Mestia before this one, part of Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili's ambitious plan to boost tourism to the area. It is hoped that, with easier access, people will flock to the area – listed as a UNESCO world heritage site for its medieval monuments, churches and forts. Mayer hoped the tower of his speedily designed and constructed airport would echo Mestia's historic stone towers...

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