The Story Behind Ukraine’s “Tunnel of Love”

The Story Behind Ukraine’s “Tunnel of Love”

Architecture Nature

Back in 2011, Amusing Planet posted pictures of a mysterious green tunnel of trees covering a section of railway tracks in Ukraine, known as “Tunnel of Love”. At that time, the internet was not aware of its existence and there was absolutely no information of this place save for its vague location near a city called Klevan. I asked my readers if they knew about the place, and a few chipped in with bits of information. In the last few years, as these pictures became more and more popular on social media and other websites, additional information began to surface. Recently, RFE/RL’s journalist and photographer Amos Chapple visited the site and came back with a more authentic story.

photofun4ucom Pada September 20, 2019 Komentar

Belgian Houses In Belgium every house is a hotchpotch

Belgian Houses In Belgium every house is a hotchpotch

Architecture

 There is a near universal appeal among Belgians to build their own house, which is reflected in the popular saying—“every Belgian is born with a brick in his stomach.” The result of this becomes obvious when you drive through any Flemish suburb. Every house is different from its neighbor. Worse still, every house is a hotchpotch of different architectural styles.

It’s like a “nightmarish architectural Legoland”, says Hannes Coudenys, who has been photographing these architectural shambles for the past several years and documenting them in his blog Ugly Belgian Houses.

photofun4ucom Pada June 08, 2019 Komentar

How To Make A Mobile House Out Of Your Van

How To Make A Mobile House Out Of Your Van

Architecture Art Auto

And nowhere is that more true than the van you live in. But no matter what vehicle you have or can afford, living in a van is ultimately about freedom, rebelling against the typical, and enjoying life on your own terms.

This Article is all about helping you, future vanlifer, choose your van, plan your design, install creature comforts like electricity and plumbing, and actually build out the interior of your DIY campervan conversion. Below you’ll find awesome infographics, detailed information, step-by-step guides, links to helpful resources, and more.

Your van is an important aspect of life, but it’s also just a vehicle - van living is really all about the experience of being out there. And we’re here to help you turn your van into a home so you can get on the road as quickly and easily as possible!

Here are some pics of van bus

photofun4ucom Pada April 11, 2019 Komentar

Tallest building in the world - Burj Khalifa

Tallest building in the world - Burj Khalifa

Architecture

In March 1996 the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, overtook the Sears Tower's record as the world's Tallest office building. Stainless steel pinnacles 73.5 metres (241 ft) long placed atop the 88-storey towers brought their height to 451.9 metres (1,482 ft 8 in).

Then, in 2003, Taiwan’s Taipei 101 (also known as the Taipei Financial Centre) took the title at a huge 508 metres (1,666 ft). Just one year later, construction on the Burj Khalifa began.

photofun4ucom Pada April 05, 2019 Komentar

China’s Waterfall Skyscraper

China’s Waterfall Skyscraper

Architecture

In a country where new buildings rise up every single day, it’s a challenge for architects to come up with original designs that stand out among the crowd of skyscrapers choking the skyline of Chinese cities. This has pushed some architects towards refreshingly new designs such as the moving façade of Shanghai’s Bund Finance Center. But nobody expected a waterfall.
So when the 397-foot-tall Liebian Building in Guiyang, China, turned the faucet for the first time, panicked residents called local newspapers to report a catastrophic water leak. The “leak” turned out to be an artificial waterfall incorporated into the building's façade. The 350-foot tall waterfall cascading down the side of the building is probably the tallest artificial waterfalls in the world.

photofun4ucom Pada July 31, 2018 Komentar

The Colorful Mansions of El Alto

The Colorful Mansions of El Alto

Architecture

Spread out across the Bolivian highlands, at 4,000 meters, the city of El Alto is predominantly ochre-red, with thousands of low, matchbox-like brick houses with unfinished and unpainted facades lining the sides of dusty, unpaved roads. It’s so drab and monotonous and depressing that residents have started to liven things up by adding splashes of color wherever they could. They have also started to design their houses into bizarre shapes.
Spearheading this new architectural revolution is self-taught architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre, whose ostentatious mansions and tacky color choices are poised to take over the entire city. These buildings are dubbed cholets, from the words chalet, which means large house, and chola, a pejorative term for the indigenous Aymara people.

photofun4ucom Pada April 18, 2018 Komentar

Alex Chinneck’s Architectural Illusions

Alex Chinneck’s Architectural Illusions

Architecture Art

A historic building in London’s Covent Garden, violently slashed through the middle, floats mysteriously in the air with no apparent support underneath the entirely dislocated upper half. A terraced house in Margate has its entire redbrick front slipped away from its frame and lies slumped in its own front garden. A red Vauxhall Corsa hangs upside down with the tarmac peeled back from the pavement and curled over. Welcome to the magical world of Alex Chinneck, a British artist known for his large-scale, mind-bending architectural illusions.

“From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes”, an architectural installation by Alex Chinneck in Margate.
One of Chinneck’s first large scale installation, titled Telling the Truth Through False Teeth (2012), featured a derelict factory with broken windows that didn’t appear out of the ordinary until you realize that every single window—more than three hundred of them— was smashed in the same pattern. The following year, Chinneck created the illusion of a house in the seaside town of Margate whose outer façade had detached and slid down to lie in a heap in front of the house. The same year, he took a commercial property in Central London and completely inverted it.
Chinneck says he loves distorting the everyday world, however, unlike other artists, he humbly admits that there is no deeper message behind his installations. “These pieces are not conceptually driven, or trying to deliver a particular message,” he says. “The aim is to astound people and just cheer them up a bit.”
His best illusion so far, has been the floating house in Covent Garden, which he installed in 2014. Alex Chinneck and his team of over 100 professionals comprising of consultants, tradesman, engineers, created a life-sized replica of the historic stone building and levitated it off the ground by using a 12 meter armature hidden inside the structure and connected to the ground through an innocuous market cart. The floating house took eight months to realize.
All of Alex Chinneck’s installations are temporary and no longer exist, but you can enjoy them in the following pictures.

From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes

Take my Lightning but Don't Steal my Thunder

Telling the Truth Through False Teeth

Under the Weather but Over the Moon

A Pound of Flesh for 50p

A Pound of Flesh for 50p was a two-story house sculpture constructed from 8,000 paraffin wax bricks that slowly meted away over the course of three weeks in November 2014.

A Bullet From A Shooting Star

A Bullet From A Shooting Star installed as a part of London Design Festival 2015.

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photofun4ucom Pada May 09, 2017

Backyard Basketball Court Ideas To Help Your Family Become Champs

Backyard Basketball Court Ideas To Help Your Family Become Champs

Architecture

Do you have a home that offers you the luxury of your very own backyard? If you do, please know that you are lucky indeed. Because the backyard of your home is a place that can offer you an escape from the hardships of life, a place of peace and recreation to escape from work, studies and other problems of life. The backyard of your home can be a space that is screened from the eyes of others and can be used to rest or exercise depending on the way you want it to be put in use. You can look at anyone can backyard projects for this year to come up with some ideas on how you are going to use up your backyard. But if you are of an athletic bent of mind or if you have kids or family members who are so inclined, then a good way to go with is to convert your backyard into a basketball court for their use.














There are many smart backyard fun and game ideas that can be used along with the basketball court idea if you are so inclined or your family members feel the need for it. And if your backyard is big enough, then you can consider dreamy backyard escape ideas for your home along with the idea for a basketball court so that the grownups enjoy a bit of peace as the more energetic family members work out their excess energy by playing a game of basketball on the other side.











If you are thinking that you just do not have the space nor the resources to have an elaborate basketball court in your backyard, then think again. Because a basketball court need not be the whole hog; it can be just a hoop on the side of the garage wall that can be used for basketball practice. Even this can be enough to have you and your kids get a good workout from this. In fact, if you want, you can also draw the borders as one would find in a real basketball court even if it is for one side. It can lead to many a lively game with bets on who can score how many baskets in a particular bit of time.











You can build a proper basketball court with two sides, then you have to make provisions of for two hoops so that you can create two teams who can score baskets off each other. Basketball is a fun sport that will not only provide a good workout for the members of your family but also provide you a means to practice the game. In fact, there are some people who feel that playing basketball from a very young age can help improve the height of kids. We do not know if this theory is true or not but it definitely can help your family heighten their fitness levels not to mention the spirit of sportsmanship.











One of the main aspects that you will have to research on and spend time and even money is that of the floor of the court. This has to be conducive for comfortable playing and also go with the color scheme of the rest of the home.










Have you already considered getting a basketball court for your background? What are the kind of space and game dimensions you are considering? Are you considering this idea for yourself or your kids or siblings? Whatever be the case, you will find the images that are given here very useful to help you find a direction for a backyard basketball court.

photofun4ucom Pada March 14, 2017 Komentar

40 Vintage 20th Century Home Decoration Ideas

40 Vintage 20th Century Home Decoration Ideas

Architecture Art ideas

what they want but because people have confused them by giving often contradictory opinions and led them astray. That is why it is best for people to have an idea in their head as to what theme they are going with when it comes their home decoration ideas.









Vintage 20th Century Home Decoration Ideas

In many instances, people who are practical and straightforward think going modern and sleek is the way to go. While it is not a bad theme to work with, it can be a bit too functional and not that quaint or cute enough. If you are looking for a warm, cozy and quaint setup, then it is best to go with vintage 20th century home decoration ideas. The thing is, that a vintage theme for decoration can start with small things like very warm and winsome vintage tea cups and then end up with many unique touches that make your home look vintage themed.









Another simple step would be to make your home look lived in and a bit shabbier so that it does not quite have the modernistic look. An easy way to do this is by adding whimsical vintage clocks to fill you with wonder and these can be gotten at reasonable prices if you are willing to cast your net wide in your search for them. If you are good with your hands, then you can also look up vintage crochet patterns while exclaiming how pretty they are even today, work at creating them to add that lovely touch to your home.









Here Are Some Of The Touches That You Can Add To Your Home That Will Give It The Twentieth Century Vintage Look:

Add that shabby chic: One of the main factors that make a look vintage is to make sure that nothing looks spanking new. Which means that you can reuse old clothes to make covers and upholstery for the home. Take things like old baskets that are lying around in your attic and convert them into lamps. Or us an old wooden cloth basket and use it as a shelf on which you can store towels. Use old trunks to add a small place to place knickknacks and things like flower pots.















Ladders and mirrors: You will be surprised at how easy it is for you to take things like old ladders and mirrors to create basic and rustic looking shelves and decorations respectively around the home. These are just an example of the kind of things that you can use to add a vintage look to your home and you will be surprised at how the ideas around this theme start flowing once you get started.















Flower pots and funnels: We are sure that most homes have things like metal funnels and watering cans lying around in their basements and attics. It is simply a matter of taking them out, cleaning them and repurposing them to make new vintage things to use for decorating your home. Even old frames can be made into a place where you keep your bling and you will be surprised at how intriguing people will find them.

















The list of things that you can do make your home look like twentieth century vintage in as far as its decoration theme is concerned, will be endless. If you feel you are running out of ideas, all you need to do is the images we have posted alongside this article. And even then if you feel you need some more ideas, then we suggest that you look at old movies, old shows and even go through some really old magazines.















Once you wrap your head around what can be done, it is simply a matter of collecting the raw materials and working the details out. The only factor that you need to keep in mind is that you need to ensure that everything works in harmony with everything else.

photofun4ucom Pada December 07, 2016 Komentar