Water Droplet Resort
11th July' 2009

This is one watery resort designed by Spanish architect Orlando De Urrutia. Besides its water droplet shape, its main purpose is to extract water from the air using solar power. The building is made of photovoltaic glass. Beautiful part of it is built underwater, functioning as a huge aquarium. The lattice wall is used not only for ventilation, but also has unique equipment Teex Micron to turn moist air and condense it into pure drinking water. In addition to its luxury hotel rooms, the plan is to build restaurants, convention space, gyms, conference rooms and spas on its upper floors.

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Union Canal - Rotating Boat Lift | Falkirk Wheel :

Falkirk wheel is the world's first of its kind located in Scotland and connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal.

The Falkirk wheel concept was an ambitious £84.5m project with the objective linking Scotland on the Forth & Clyde Canal and Union Canal, providing a corridor of regenerative activity through central Scotland.

There was a big challenge to link the Forth and Clyde Canal, which lay 35meter (115 feet) below the level of Union Canal. Historically, the two canals was joined at Falkirk by a flight of 11 locks that stepped down across a distance of 1.5km, but these has been dismantled in 1933, breaking the link.

Method of connecting these two canals by a boat lift. British Waterways were keen to present a visionary solution taking full advantage of the opportunity to create a spectacular structure that would act as an iconic symbol.

In result, perfectly balanced structure The Falkirk Wheel, the world’s first and only rotating boat lift was constructed.

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★ Deconstructivism is an approach to building design began in the late 1980s.

★ It attempts to view architecture in bits and pieces.

★ Deconstructivist buildings may seem to have no visual logic.

★ They may appear to be made up of unrelated, disharmonious abstract forms.

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Daniel Czapiewski built The Upside Down House .It took 114 days to build because the workers were so disoriented by the angles of the walls.

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