Swedish TreeHotel

"Set in the pristine forests of northern Sweden, just miles away from the Arctic Circle, the Treehotel combines stunning design with prefabricated tree-house construction."

There are five different units that will be ready for the opening this weekend (17th of July), each designed by a different architect to be completely unique. The owners of the hotel have plans for a total of 24 rooms within five years time.

Mirrorcube is one of the units. I find it the most beautiful thing I've seen lately. Love the way it disturbs the view turning it into an absolutely surrealistic image.

via inhabitat.com

The enchanted kindergarden

The project is a result of an architectural competition for 2 kindergartens in Tromso, Norway. 70°N arkitektur "kindergartens have been built to have the possibility of variety in the use of rooms. With very simple moves one can change each room into new rooms of various sizes and functions. There are several options for combinations and joint actions of rooms and spaces.

One of the main ideas is that each base has two adjustable walls (fixed in one end, and wheels on the other) that gives the room a variety of combinations of small and large rooms. The walls are built with various shelves, drawers, blackboards, climbing partitions, puppet show sections and so on."

Fun and functional! What a lovely way to enhance the minds of kids with colours and a lot of imagination.