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How can a sympathetic design create a dialogue between the built environment and nature? Check out weekend home designed by @SHROFFLEóN, where a 75-foot long infinity pool bridges the connect with the landscape. Leave us your views here…

Finne Architects design this Los Angeles villa with a hyperbolic paraboloid roof, a garden and a swimming pool, creating a seamless inside-outside equation with oversized roof overhangs and a large glass pivot entry door!

Holiday seekers get a new destination in Taiwan's new retreat in the skies! MVRDV designed Y House with its glass-edged roof-top swimming pool is the latest entrant in weekend getaways.

Glass bridges, glass-bottom pool, staircases, facade... Gomez de la torre & Guerra Architects use a profusion of glass to bring in panoramic surrounds in this villa in Lima. Check out the beatific project and tell us what you think...

Designer Mamoru Maeda of SEMBA Vietnam creates an earthy oasis with a resort-like-feel on the ground floor of an apartment block in the midst of the bustling city of Ho Chi Minh, giving residents much to look forward to when they think of using their pool facility. Check out this oasis in a concrete jungle…

Given its myriad entities and perhaps the world's most advanced performance pool, Watergarden in Istanbul is a first-of-its-kind gastronomy and entertainment centre. Check it out and tell us what you think

Ugghhh!! Summers are not just here but dreadfully taking a toll on all of us. We humans can at least choose to decide on our recreations to drive away our summer blues. But, what about your darling pet dogs? They too might be longing for some entertaining activities but can't express. I am sure you all must be deeply in love with your fur pals and already be doing anything and everything to keep them happy and healthy. But, just imagine those glaring eyes in your locality when you take your dog for a stroll. I am sure you must have come across such people because of whom you don't feel comfortable taking your dogs to public places. Also, if you do take your dog out, the poor thing must wear a leash. Can you imagine putting your pet in the community pool? Your pet might be clean and disciplined. But other people are not so considerate.

Prioritizing nature over built form, hillside resort DuSaiResortSpa by VITTI.sthapati follows a hybrid typology of traditional tea estate architecture and standardised concrete construction.

Nashik-based Environ Planners chisel a built form that snuggles amidst nature as a resort-esque second home. Check it out and leave us your comments…

Eray-Carbajo architecture and design studio create an intriguingly masculine ambience for Adam - the grooming atelier brand in London. Check out how this ordinary barber shop has been transformed into an upscale service haunt and leave us your views...

Ar. Lotfi Sidirahal introspects into traditional Omani architecture and interior design to chisel a contemporarily flavoured resort at the scenic cliff edge in Oman. Check out the design and tell us what you think...

The Bota Bota 'pavilions' follow an architectural intention that creates a simple but yet elegant set of monolithic volumes that frames strong perspectives; a public space delight! Read here and leave us your views…

Akin to an internal courtyard, a water body constitutes the focal point of this home. Check it out and tell us what you think...

Heusch Architecture renovates a legendary mid-century style architectural building into a modern home by opening up its interiors to the scenic surrounds. Check it out and leave us your views

Architectural studio Concrete designs #HotelAndaz at #Munich, borrowing the best of the local culture and tradition to compose a contemporary project that is as myriad as the city itself.

Reiterating that space (metaphorically too) is an important element of life and lifestyles, Axelrod Architects chisel an 80's home into a sleek modern structure carefully maintaining the nature connect…

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

Developing a dialogue between architectural form, geometry, sustainability and smart materials, Margot Krasojevic Architects designs a photovoltaic ice skating rink in Russia. Check it out and leave us your views...

Nepal's climate offers a unique opportunity for water harvesting from fog. Margot Krasojević Architects design a sustainable infrastructure to support this very endeavour. Check it out here…

Conner + Perry Architects redesign a 1940's cabin in the woods into a luxurious home showcasing an enviable lifestyle. Check it out here…