These amazing structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s. They were built to commemorate were WWII battles took place or where concentration camps stood. More of these amazing monuments can be seen here.

The images above are from a series by Jan Kempenaers called “Spomenik: The End of History”. Between 2006 to 2009 Kempenaers trekked through the Balkans to photograph these amazing structures.

I’d love to visit a few of these in person just to have a real idea of the scale of them.

Continuing the theme of ‘If I ever win the lottery what dream home would I build?’.

Well I think I have just found it, loving the driveway it’s like the bad guys hideout straight from a James Bond movie.

Originally found on a trip to ffffound but the full story is at the architects site KWK Promes.

The Third & The Seventh is stunning piece of CGI by Alex Roman. I don’t know much about the history of this but it must have consumed a monster number of hours to produce. You get an idea of how much effort has gone into this by watching the composition breakdown.

Amazing to think that everything in the film is computer generated and that it has been produced on a desktop machine by one person.

Bold, ambitious, energetic, cool these are some of the qualities needed of the world’s greatest city, and they can also be attributed to this frankly amazing concept submitted to a recent London design competition.

Mayor Boris Johnson has commited to build a tourist attraction in the Olympic Park. This entry was submitted by an international team of architects, artists and engineers.

You can read more on the BBC news website and at the official raisethecloud.org website.

I came across the amazing work of Lucy McRae whilst having lunch today. I am not sure how to define or categorise her work but it is visually stunning. Lucy is a classically trained ballerina, interior designer, architect and ‘body architect’.

My fascination with beautiful architecture was raised to new levels yesterday when I saw this on thecoolhunter. I really need that lottery win or to be-friend a Russian billionaire who would like to finance a project!

It’s probably good that somethings are out of reach, after all that’s what dreams are made of. Frustrating but true.

We had a Harvest photography competition down on the Southbank. We put some rules in place, objects to find and set a time limit! We also provided teams with a Lomolito disposable camera each and let them loose on the unsuspecting public. Here are a few of my favourites.

It was a great night out that ultimately ended up with us having a few too many beers!
I would highly recommend you have a go yourselves (the photography that is…)

Small, Medium, Large & EXTRA LARGE typography! Wow!!

I spent my design education really admiring Why Not Associates, their print work and books really were an inspiration. Quite a unique style which has often been copied but never executed with the same degree of skill. I had put them to the back of my mind until this week when I was going through my book library for research material.

I have put the locations of their environmental designs to the top of my list of places to visit.

This is one hotel that’s going on my places to visit list. Stockholm-based architects Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter have designed a hotel hidden in the trees, to be located in Harads, Sweden. Cool!