A 100-Year-Old Church in Spain Transformed into a Skate Park Covered in Murals by Okuda San Miguel

"Originally designed by Asturian architect Manuel del Busto in 1912, the church of Santa Barbara in Llanera, Asturias, was abandoned for years and crumbling from neglect. Luckily, a group of enterprising individuals lead by a collective called the ‘Church Brigade,’ with help from online fundraising and Red Bull, the church was salvaged and turned into a public skate park dubbed Kaos Temple.

As if having a skate park inside a beautiful abandoned church wasn’t enough, artist Okuda San Miguel was commissioned to cover the walls and vaulted ceilings with his unique brand of colorful geometric figures." via Colossal

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“Dear World… Yours, Cambridge” projection by Miguel Chevalier

Cambridge’s King’s College Chapel unites the old and the new, the spiritual and scientific – literally so with the “Dear World… Yours, Cambridge” projection. This project by Miguel Chevalier set up in “immersive projection” in the chapel that showed images relating to the many fields of the University of Cambridge, from literature to astrophysics.

Miguel Chevalier is a Mexico City-born artist who lives in Paris. He works exclusively with computers. Since 1980’s, he has created “many projects variously incorporating generative and interactive virtual reality installations projected on large scale, shown on Leds screen or LCD screen, sculptures created with a 3D printer or with laser cut, holographic imagery and other forms.”

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A Modern Cabin In The Californian Redwoods By Lundberg Design

Text by iGNANT "San Francisco-based architecture practice Lundberg Design created the ‘Breuer Cabin‘ that is located in the redwoods of Sonoma County in California, USA."

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Orang+Utan Cafe Kiev

"A new vegetarian bar in Ukraine’s capital brings healthy refreshments and energising food to city dwellers: designed by Artem Vahrin and Katya Zuieva of AKZ Architectura in collaboration with owner Yulia Savlepova, Orang+Utan Vegetarian Bar follows the concept that the city is a jungle, and its denizens “smart animals” that have developed sophisticated modes of feeding." via Yatzer

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The Broad museum LA

This first set of official images shows Diller Scofidio + Renfro's The Broad art museum in Los Angeles ahead of its opening later this month. Via Dezeen

Photographs by Benny Chan, Iwan Baan and Hufton+Crow

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A Basketball Court Was Styled as a Malevich Painting in Paris

Our friends and sponsors Depositphotos launched a brand new blog "Bird" dedicated to the world of Photography. They asked us to come across their latest content presented both on Russian and English and select the interesting portfolio for our readers. Check the surface and the sides of the Paris basketball court that are painted in the main colours of Malevich's "Sportsmen"

Ill-Studio has collaborated with French fashion brand Pigalle to create a multicoloured basketball court between a row of buildings in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. They took inspiration from a 1930s artwork called Sportsmen by Russian artist Kasimir Malevich – a boldly coloured oil painting that depicts four figures stood side by side.

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«Sportsmen is one of our favourite artworks, — they say. — We were attracted not only by the characters of the painting, but also by the colours and graphic design that were consistent with our view of the future».

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Photography is by Sebastien Michelini.

A Concrete Summer House By BAK Arquitectos

"BAK arquitectos (Besonias Almeida) constructed the AV house, a concrete summer home in the forest of Mar Azul in Argentina. Surrounded by the lush natural landscape, the architects' goal was to design a building that integrates into the maritime environment through its shape and use of materials. The exterior is made of exposed concrete and the large windows capture the light that passes through the trees. Additionally, the interior is completely made of concrete, which regulates the thermal insulation."

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Minimal Pure by Feridun Akgüngör

In the series 'Minimal Pure', Turkish digital artist and art director Feridun Akgüngör combined architectural imagery and soothing colors to create serene minimal photographs.

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Live on the Edge with OPA’s Casa Brutale

You might remember the cliff-hanging project by Modscape published last year at Top 2014, but here is a new one concept from another studio OPA that will leave your mouth agape. Casa Brutale gives us wall-to-wall water and concrete set into cliffs above the Aegean Sea in what OPA promises will be a literally ground-breaking development.

Spaces by Material Immaterial

The designers behind Material Immaterial studio, Nitin Barchha and Disney Davis, constructed miniature buildings to celebrate the beauty of concrete. These are miniature homes, which they call 'SPACES'. They are a collection of nine unique concrete pieces celebrating the amalgamation of space and volume that have sparked our senses as designers over the years. In honor of classic architecture, the designers say about their motivation behind the project: "Many of the best and most influential buildings of the last century are constructed with concrete, from Le-Corbusier's quintessentially modernist Villa Savoye, to Frank Lloyd Wright's spellbinding Falling water, and from Oscar Niemeyer's nation defining Brasilia, to Tadao Ando's exhilarating Church of the Light."

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Ball Pool and the Beach at National Museum of Washington

"Brooklyn-based experimental studio Snarkitecture is bringing the ocean indoors, transforming water and waves into nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls. Covering 10,000 square feet of the National Building Museum in Washington D.C., the interactive installation titled “The BEACH” will include white beach chairs and umbrellas to simulate seaside vibes, while maintaining the monochrome feel that Snarkitecture has become known for." writes Colossal. You might remember one London studio did it first but in a smaller room.

All included images are by Noah Kalina

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Dogs & Tails Bar

Architecture and design practice Makhno Studio is behind the rich and layered design of Dogs &Tails bar and café in Kiev, Ukraine. Housed in a building that was originally a synagogue and later a small cinema, Dogs &Tails is sister to the neighbouring restaurant and café Milk Bar. Read more on Yatzer

Sunflower House by Cadaval & Solà-Morales

Designed by Cadaval & Solà-Morales, the Sunflower House is located by the Mediterranean Sea in Girona, Spain. The designers write, "The house wants to identify each of the particularities of this magnificent landscape; with its geometry, the house frames a multiplicity of different and specific views, and builds up content spaces that inhabit great big framed views."

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All images © Sandra Pereznieto

Sunflower House by Cadaval & Solà-Morales

Designed by Cadaval & Solà-Morales, the Sunflower House is located by the Mediterranean Sea in Girona, Spain. The designers write, "The house wants to identify each of the particularities of this magnificent landscape; with its geometry, the house frames a multiplicity of different and specific views, and builds up content spaces that inhabit great big framed views."

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All images © Sandra Pereznieto

Floating House on the River Thames in London

Designed by Steve and Nick Tidball, creative directors of the TBWA agency, it includes two bedrooms, a working bathroom and a garden with real grass and an apple tree. It will meander up and down the river throughout the week, hosting various events and even some sleepovers.

Reading Between the Lines - Church by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh

Belgian architect group, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, built a church in Belgium that looks completely different from any side of view

From others, the structure reveals itself to be something else entirely - a building that's almost entirely see through. The project, named "Reading Between the Lines," is a composition of 100 layers of stacked steel, that are equidistantly staggered in a way that illusively change in appearance based on where the viewer is standing.

Hotel in a 19th Century Sea Fort

AmaZing Venues has renovated this 19th-century sea fort into a one-of-a-kind luxury hotel, located in the Solent straight of southern England. No Man’s Land Fort was built between 1867 and 1880 in means of defense from a suspected French invasion. The fort is roughly two hours from London and can now be accessed by boat or helicopter.

Nakagin Capsule Tower 1972

Photographer Noritaka Minami explores the architectural heritage of Tokio tells us a story of futuristic Nakagin Capsule Tower designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1972. . As the first capsule apartment in history constructed for everyday use, the Nakagin Capsule Tower is considered the most ambitious attempt in implementing the principles of Metabolism (the movement aimed to formulate flexible designs that facilitate continual growth and renewal of architecture). This prototype for a new lifestyle for the 21st Century ultimately proved to be an exception rather than the rule. Now considered an obsolete model of living, the Nakagin Capsule Tower faces the threat of demolition to make way for a conventional apartment complex on the site. This photographic series below investigates the building as it faces an uncertain fate.

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Sergey Makhno Architecture

Sergey Makhno has completed “Buddy’s House,” a home located in Horenychi, Ukraine.

Artist Samantha Everton Covers A Building In Her Work

Australian artist Samantha Everton, worked with the architecture practice Kavellaris Urban Design, to create the façade of this new building in Melbourne, Australia. The mixed-use building is called “2 Girls,” and features Everton’s “Masquerade” photo art from her “Vintage Dolls” series, re-created as the building’s façade.