a62- L’Hôtel Particulier « nouvelle acquisition »
L’Hôtel Particulier, the official Huitième Degré & a62 headquarters, moves in 2010 to this incredible house designed by the Swiss Fine Line studio. I think we’ll be fine… ![]()




2, rue Pierre-Viret
1350
Orbe
Suisse
L’Hôtel Particulier, the official Huitième Degré & a62 headquarters, moves in 2010 to this incredible house designed by the Swiss Fine Line studio. I think we’ll be fine… ![]()




Haw-Lin blog is a famous and very cool blog which only shows pics, just cool and nice pics of everything, without any link to what it is. I was amazed when I saw on it the DJ FUNK by our Hugo Hoppman, yeah yeah the « Hugo » who post only great sentences on Huitieme Degre. Congrats!!!

Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike, accurate representations of cities, sometimes after having only observed them briefly. That’s totally amazing, check his work.



Stephen Wiltshire
Mexican architecture firm, Rojkind Arquitectos was chosen to build the Gimme Shelter for the Ordos 100 project. It is a private multifunctional residence, to be built on a total area of 1,000m². Inspiration from the Mongolian nomads. The building design is based on ancient cave habitats known as Yaodong, a structure that withstand the tundra climate and harsh summers of Inner Mongolia.
To shelter the residents from extreme climatic conditions, Gimme Shelter has a protective shell that incorporate passive solar and geothermal design elements along with elastic design elements. The residence will have four floors, connected by a series of bridges. The entrance is located in the north side of the hard protective shell and leads to the second floor. The west side houses all services while the main living areas are located in the extreme east along with other support features.
The High Line is a public park built on a 1.45-mile-long elevated rail structure running from Gansevoort Street to 34th Street on Manhattan’s West Side. It was a freight rail line, in operation from 1934 to 1980. It carried meat to the meatpacking district, agricultural goods to the factories and warehouses of the industrial West Side, and mail to the Post Office.

