The Cube may be the one that could give you your best fine dining experience. Combining ground breaking design, fantastic cuisine and stunning locations, The Cube by Electrolux is taking fine dining to a new level. Travelling across Belgium, Italy, Russia, Switzerland and Sweden, two spectacularly designed restaurants will be popping up at some of Europe’s most famous landmarks, inspiring guests with wonderful meals, events and once-in-a-lifetime views.

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Here are amazing photos of ruins from Detroit by Parisian photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.

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Aluna is a unique proposal for the world’s first tidal powered Moon Clock. It will change the way we consider time and understand our planet.

Larger than Stonehenge, Aluna’s forty metre wide, five storey high structure is made up of three concentric translucent recycled glass rings. By looking at how each ring is illuminated, you can follow the Moon’s movements, its current phase and the ebb and flow of the tides. This animation of light is called Alunatime.

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Vincent Callebaut unnveiled coral-inspired carbon neutral eco village for Haiti. The Coral Reef project plans a matrix to build a three dimensional and energy self-sufficient village from one and only standardised and prefabricated module in order to rehouse the refugees from such humanitarian catastrophes. This basic module is simply made of two passive houses (with metallic structure and tropical wood facades) interlocked in duplex around a transversal horizontal circulation linking every unit.
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Look at this cool and functional design of the Herzog and De Meuron Vitrahaus in Switzerland. Design Boom says “The concept of the ‘Vitrahaus’ connects two themes which are occurring in the architectural practice of Herzog and De Meuron: the theme of the archetypal house and that of stacked volumes. The five-storey structure is comprised of 12 ‘houses’ – five houses are set at the base in which seven other houses are stacked upon one another.”

Vitrahaus Pictures:

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I have seen so many beautiful cathedrals and basilicas around the world in all my travels. But which are the most stunning and beautiful architecturally-designed cathedrals or basilicas?

St. Basil Cathedral in Russia – built on the edge of Red Square between 1555 and 1561.

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