Initially designed as a fashion element, Footlume represents a special floor fitted with weight sensors that send an electrical impulse to light the floor in a small area when someone steps on it. Imagine a party room with lights coming to the floor, on the dance rhythm; but if you prefer to sleep instead of having a party, this floor could guide your steps to the bathroom and back to your bed, without banishing your sleep. Anyway, if you have kids, they’ll just love to jump all day long on a floor like this.

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Over the past few years many designers tried to develop innovative and helpful technologies. Vincent Calleubaut has designed a project called Anti-Smog: An Innovation Centre in Sustainable Development which is destined to clear the air in Paris. His idea is based on green buildings and technologies, but also an attractive point of attraction for tourists. The centre will consist of two structures available for meetings and galleries, and it also feature a courtyard.

The Anti-Smog centre will free the city of Paris from the “smog-oppression” and it will have an instructive role for the citizens - to support ecology and renewable energy. The structure will be built over the Canal de L’Ourcq, will produce more energy than it needs and the titanium-oxide coating will create a photocatalytic effect which makes smog to vanish. For a better view of the constructio you might wanna check out the gallery below.

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A Korean company called Heerim Architects has develop two projects consisting of skyscrapers of the future. Their projects are Full Moon Bay and Caspian Plus, and are going to be built in Baku, Azerbaijan. The inspiration came from the moon and the Koreans came up with an extraordinary design for the future hotels.

The Full Moon Hotel has a shape like a disc and it will be covered in hexagonal honeycombs, and it will feature a hole situated close to the top. The architects specified that the design could be changed because it’s very possible that the construction will need some reinforcements. Full Moon will be a 35-storied luxury hotel reaching about 158 meters height which will feature 382 rooms in about 104,000 square meters of space.

Hotel Crescent will be a part of the Caspian Plus and the name came from the fact that it looks like a crescent moon. The building will also a luxury hotel but with three stores less and will feature 128,000 square meters of space enough for 221 rooms.

For a better view of the buildings you might want to check out the gallery below.

A team of Romanian architects, called A.A. Studio have design a unique apartment in Bucharest, combining classic with contemporary elements. The apartment is all colored in the white color and created in a minimalist design, along with ‘60 and ’70s aesthetics, being called The Big White.

While designing this apartment, the building was still in construction and the architects felt restricted by the space characteristics.

The apartment offers a great futuristic feeling with all this white and a lot of lights, placed in the most common parts. Unfortunately, it’s disadvantage is the attraction to dirt this color has and inability to clean it very well. But it still remains a state-of-the-art design with all included, if the red riding hood is also featured. Take a look at our gallery to find more photos of it.

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A new “city” is going to be located in Chengdu, China by the end of 2010. The 105,000 square foot so-called city is located in an area that doesn’t get very much sunlight, so it has a design that makes it take advantage of what it gets. The Sliced Porosity Block recycles rainwater that’s cooled by lilypads and because of it’s sliced geometrical design it creates the impression of a building within a building.

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