The Mardan Palace is a luxury hotel in Lara, Antalya, Turkey, built by Azerbaijani Mountain Jewish businessman Telman Ismailov. It was opened on 23 May 2009 and attended by Mariah Carey, Sharon Stone, Richard Gere, Monica Bellucci, Paris Hilton, Seal, Tom Jones and the Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev. It's considered as Europe's and the Mediterranean's most expensive luxury resort.It cost $1.4 billion. It has the Mediterranean's largest swimming pool within which is a sunken aquarium containing 2,400 fish.The hotel has 560 rooms, a 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m2) spa, and its own beach containing 9,000 tons of sand imported from Egypt. 10,000 m2 of gold, 500,000 crystals, 23,000 m2 of Italian marble are used in the construction of the hotel. The corporate identity and website for the hotel was created by Brash Brands in Dubai, for which they received an International Design Award.
The Tower Named that Strata Tower, it is a luxury residential building which is being built in Abu Dhabi,UAE. It has been designed by architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote. Included below are some pictures of the interior.
Remember that Twitter office we featured a while back at Home-Designing? We just received news that Twitter folks have moved office again. The new office is at a location just around the corner from the old one but the interiors are way swankier! Bright coloured walls, Twitter graphics, Arne Jacobsen egg chairs and a heavy dose of animal figurines really makes the place look alive. The word around is that co-founder Ev Williams’s wife, Sara Morishige aided with the interior design.
Take a look at the snaps below.
The Magdeburg Water Bridge is a navigable aqueduct in Germany that connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittelland Canal, and allows ships to cross over the Elbe River. At 918 meters, it is the longest navigable aqueduct in the world.. It took over 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete. This project took six years to build and costing around 500 milion euros.
The Elbe-Havel and Mittelland canals had previously met near Magdeburg but on opposite sides of the Elbe. Ships moving between the two had to make a 12-kilometer detour, descending from the Mittelland Canal through the Rothensee boat lift into the Elbe, then sailing downstream on the river, before entering the Elbe-Havel Canal through Niegripp lock. Low water levels in the Elbe often prevented fully laden canal barges from making this crossing, requiring time-consuming off-loading of cargo.
Construction of the water link was started as early as in the 1930s but due to the World War 2 and subsequent division of Germany the work remained suspended till 1997. The aqueduct was finally completed and opened to the public in 2003.
