Instead of rebuilding the roads damaged by the harsh winter in London, a guerrilla gardener Steve Wheen has planted some miniature flowers and trees to create sanctuaries of tranquility in broken urban places. These mini gardens, though not that attractive as normal gardens, has successfully brought the old city and old roads with new appearances, and add some new fun to the urban life as well.

Designer: Steve Wheen

Located in Villa Escudero of Quezon Province, Philippines, the Waterfalls Restaurant is quite well-known for its delicious local dishes and the sparkling waterfalls as a background. The moment you step into the restaurant, you’ll feel spring water running over your feet, and then you may feel that you’re much closer to the nature as a result.

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With the Christmas Day coming nearer, what’s now popular on the internet isn’t this year’s Christmas tree however, but next year’s Eiffel Tower Tree instead. From June, 2012, about 6,00,000 plants will cover the Eiffel Tower, costing an astonishing £65 million. If the plan goes smoothly, quite soon we’ll see the world’s tallest tree in Paris, which is also expected to absorb more greenhouse gases at that time.

Christmas is coming, are you planning a trip for your family? If so, we strongly recommend you a trip to the natural reserve of Huilo Huilo in Chile, where there’s also a beautifully constructed hotel named as “Magic Mountain Lodge”. Built with a unique shape of a volcano, the lodge is actually surfaced with waterfall, which makes the building quite refreshing both indoors and outdoors. As the hotel is the best in Chile, its price may be bit of expensive: one night there will cost you $250 to $400.

Almost all things change to create their own beauty, and so does the waterfall. In Osaka City Station, there’s a unique waterfall designed by Koei Industry that performs various patterns as the water falls down. The system is based on a printer that emits illuminated water droplets, which are controlled with a computer. To learn more about the fantastic beauty, let’s check out the video below.

Designer: Koei Industry

In the Park Chaudfontaine located in Belgium, a huge clip and the rising in the ground have created an outstanding landscape, which also leaves everyone a deep impression. Really cool!

Designed by Choi + Shine Architects, these towers are powerful—holding up electrical lines with their strong arms, and they’re also variable—changing their gestures as the environments differ. So when the electrical lines ascend a hill, the pylon figures imitate a climbing person but stretch to gain increased height over long spans. Except for the large amounts of possible forms, the pylon-figures can also be placed in pairs, walking side by side or glancing at each other and therefore altering the overall appearance of line routes. Also due to that concept of giving the towers a new look as well as its innovative design, the pylon-figures has become winner of the 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture. So  would you like to see them on the lands of your country?

Designer: Choi + Shine Architects

The sunlight filters through clouds, glints through the leaves, and finally shines bright on a girl’s faces, dancing on her eyelids and hairs… That sounds wonderful, right? But the beautiful scene wasn’t seen in the wild country where are full of trees, but in a white box with a few square meter footprint. So welcome to the Unlimited Urban Woods, an illusory forest installed by DUS Architects in a public plaza in Oosterdokskade, Amsterdam, using a series of strategically angled mirrors and one single full-size tree. Really magical! And we bet the forest inside the box is no less unusual than the Wonderland that Alice has come across.

A gigantic origami crane has appeared in California, as an important part of the 2010 Coachella Music and Arts Festival. 45 feet tall and 150 feet wide (wingspan), the crane is actually a shelter, and also, a landscape architecture and symbol constructing of the music festival.

Designer: Crimson Collective

Giant green cloud is gradually moving in the sky, with its long tail following behind…but wait, how could the cloud come along with a tail? But I’m not kidding, as what you’ve seen in the picture is actually the Ga Green Cloud created by Helen Evans and Heiki Hansen, with the help of a laser transmitter. It is a fantastic artwork which takes over the sky of Helsinki, Finland. If you’re living near to the Salmisaari power plant, then you’re lucky to see that every night.

Rhett Dashwood is a CD (creative director) with much experience. From October 2008 to April 2009, he spent much time on the Google Earth to look for certain buildings or terrains that are shaped like the 26 letters. Half a year later, Rhett Dashwood finally succeeded and right here are his discoveries—26 terrains from Victoria State, Australia make up an alphabet. Bravo!

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On December 9th, 2009, as thousands of citizens recalled, a mysterious light appeared in the sky above Norway. Firstly, it was a blue light that was soaring up from behind a mountain, and then, it gradually turned into a giant spiral, which almost covered the entire sky. About 10 to 12 minutes later, the light finally disappeared and the citizens went back to bed again.

So what do you think about this phenomenon? The tracks of a moving UFO? Aurora borealis? Well, the Meteorological Institute doesn’t think so. It is widely believed that the light was caused by the Russian missile launch, which went wrong as we all knew. However, the Russian government didn’t share this view.

According to ‘The Berg’ website, Berliners are getting down to considering creating a man-made mountain in Berlin, as another tourist-attracting option. Proposed by the German architect Jakob Tigges, the largest man-made mountain will be 1000m tall, and covered with snow on its peak for at least half the year. If that finally come true, a range of activities like skiing, hang-gliding and rock climbing would be available to the Berlins, rightly inside their city. But is the mountain just a hoax or a real opportunity? We may keep a watch on ‘The Berg’ website to find the answer.

Designer: Jakob Tigges

In 2006, the famous Chinese director Yimou Zhang has amazed the whole world with the classic “Impression of Sanjie Liu”, which creates a gorgeous visual effect based on the natural landscape. Similarly, the scene shown in the picture is a project in Machu Picchu, still combining the nature views and high technology. As the PAE light canons are really powerful, you won’t miss the grand occasion even in daytime.

Designer：Studio Orta

This romantic sunset is constructed from colored Plexi-glass, fiberfill and lights. What’s more it is controlled by a dimmer switch. You can adjust the rising and setting of the sun at your own desired speed.

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Sitting in the rear of the car is pretty boring, so you need some video game. But the background of the game is always the same. Need some change? You will like this one named carcade. Designed by Berlin University of Arts students Nicolas Fischer, Martin Kim Luge and Korbinian Polk, this game can capture the landscape outside the car with the camera and converts the it into the video game environment.

Make sure that you’re not driving the car while playing carcade.

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This is a combination of waterfall and project technology. The text could fall down with the water. Video after the jump:

Designer: Julius Popp

This is a unique design from Isamu Noguchi, it seems like that they are floating in air. Actually they are supported by pipe hidden in waterfall.

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This rainbow projector made from LEDs could give you fantastic feeling although in your room without raining. The motion-activated sensor let you to turn on and off the rainbow with the wave of your hand.It’s magic

Price: $30

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Artists from Jason Bruges Studio created this visible wind system by using 500 mini-turbines cranking up hundreds of LEDs like fireflies. You can see the wind blowing through.

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Do you like nature? Then, you should not ignore this plasma combined with a artificial waterfall.

Although it’s fairly beautiful, the lack of TV tuner make it not fit for ordinary family show. However, I think it’s a good idea to broadcast AD in public area.

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