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Rattan Sculptural Columns Spiral @ Restaurant in Bangkok

The design was created in a hybrid of digital 3D technology with traditional handicrafts. Natural rattan is integrated into a 30-meter-high space, in digitally created forms. They sculpturally imitate the liquid geometry of beer as it is poured into a glass. The gold-painted rattan is also used for functional purposes, hiding the beer pipes, air conditioning and other related wiring. The restaurant overlooks the Chao Priya River and the rattan columns create a visual link to the towering towers in front of it.

Enter Projects has created sculptural rattan columns, which seek to present innovation and ecological awareness, while embracing heritage in the local context. The concept of this design in the Spice & Barley restaurant lounge of a brewery, centers around a local and historical adventurous fairy tale, about three sisters in Sichuan. The story was translated into a design narrative, which connects past and present, in a complex network of free-flowing and mesmerizing rattan structures, like the sisters' characters themselves.

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World’s Most Unique Brewery - Kuchlbauer Tower in Lower Bavaria

Standing over 112 feet tall, this quirky structure is a brewery and observation tower in its gold-plated dome. It's in Abensberg, Bavaria, Germany.

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Arch of Septimius Severus in Roman Coliseum, Italy

Arch of Septimius Severus has survived its 1.800 years remarkably well. In 203 A.D the Roman Senate erected a great arch to commemorate the victories of Septimius Severus against the Parthians.

The arch is about 20 met. high, 25 met. wide and over 11 meters deep and has three passageways, a large one in the center and two smaller ones at the sides with short flights of steps leading up to them.

In the carvings on the arch the same theme is expressed in the small frieze above the two lesser vaults. This shows carts filled with booty, soldiers, prisoners, and the great statue of a seated figure that personifies the conquered province.

This triple-vaulted monument was erected just where the Via Sacra begins to climb toward the Capitol, the culminating point of triumphal processions awarded to victorious generals. The arch is wholly sheathed in marble and an image on a coin shows it was originally surmounted by bronze sculptures: a chariot drawn by six horses flanked with equestrian statues symbolizing the triumph decreed to the emperor.

Top Photo © 2015 Richard F. Ebert All Rights Reserved

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Arch of Septimius Severus in Roman Coliseum, Italy

Arch of Septimius Severus has survived its 1.800 years remarkably well. In 203 A.D the Roman Senate erected a great arch to commemorate the victories of Septimius Severus against the Parthians.

The arch is about 20 met. high, 25 met. wide and over 11 meters deep and has three passageways, a large one in the center and two smaller ones at the sides with short flights of steps leading up to them.

In the carvings on the arch the same theme is expressed in the small frieze above the two lesser vaults. This shows carts filled with booty, soldiers, prisoners, and the great statue of a seated figure that personifies the conquered province.

This triple-vaulted monument was erected just where the Via Sacra begins to climb toward the Capitol, the culminating point of triumphal processions awarded to victorious generals. The arch is wholly sheathed in marble and an image on a coin shows it was originally surmounted by bronze sculptures: a chariot drawn by six horses flanked with equestrian statues symbolizing the triumph decreed to the emperor.

Photo © 2015 Richard F. Ebert All Rights Reserved

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EERO SAARINEN, TWA Terminal, New York International, now John F. Kennedy, Photograph EZRA STOLLER, 1962

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paris, france ⋅ ph. raphael metivet

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La Sagrada Familia Tower Stairwell in Barcelona, Spain

After braving the towers of La Sagrada Familia, it was on to the spiral staircase that was the only way down. It’s a good thing I’m not claustrophobic. The staircase looked like the inside of a seashell, one person wide and spiraling down around an opening about a foot wide. Looking straight down, it’s impossible to tell how many floors up you are. It didn’t help that I didn’t pass a single person on the way down (which was enough to make me wonder if I was actually going the right direction). Crazy stuff. My knees were pretty shaky after climbing all the way back down.

From: https://www.flickr.com/photos/briancparks/7487077052

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Lakshmi Vilas Palace in Vadodara, India

Inside beautiful master craftmanship shines in the Darbar Hall, Venetian mosaic floor and Belgium Stained glass too.

This impressive palace is full of multi-colored marble; Venetian mosaic tile; Belgium Stained glass; various works of art; palms & fountains, including the golf course & the personal museum of Sayajirao, on the other side of the palace, in which other paintings are original paintings by Raja Ravi Verma. The beauty of this in evening light is stunning.

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