There is some truly incredible stuff in this round of the most beautiful items of the week. Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms? You’ll be dying to check them out. Museums that are actually made of gingerbread? You’re mouth will be watering over them. Besides those, there are plenty of other wonders of art architecture and design below:
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Otto reports that "Dutch firm Paul de Ruiter Architects has won the ARC13 architecture prize for their project Villa Kogelhof," which is a great excuse to feature this awesome floating house, masterfully photographed by Jeroen Musch.
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I’m supposed to know better. Fog is a phenomenon of weather. It’s a low cloud hanging near the ground. It’s shrouded moisture. It’s not a haunting ghost. It’s not from another planet. But why does this hypnotic time lapse of fog rolling through the Rocky Mountains from Richard Gottardo feel so supernatural? Or at least, from another world.
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Each of the photos in this collection took weeks—some even months—of preparation. They were prepared and shot by a JeeYoung Lee, a Korean artist who just has a camera, a ridiculously tiny 11.8 x 13.4 x 7.8-foot studio and lots of patience and talent to build her dreamscapes.
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Oh, my. Our most beautiful items this week really run the gamut. From stadiums shaped like vagianas, to crazy digital fabrication, to a beautiful futuristic speedboats, we’re really going for it this time around. Enjoy some of our favorite posts from the worlds of art, architecture, and design in the past week:
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This is the Ferrari Arno XI Racing Hydroplane and is, without a doubt, the most beautiful speedboat ever made. Its 1953 Flash Gordon design still feels beautiful today. It’s not only a design masterpieces. It’s an incredible machine too.
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Fine art landscape and adventure photographer Scott Rinckenberger took this awesome one-in-a-million photo during a long trip from Seattle to the Mexican border: a perfectly lit and exposed image in which a meteor entered the atmosphere just in time for the shot. Here’s his take on it:
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The ferocious teeth of the Earth dragon—the sand seas of the Namibia desert as captured by South Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite. The complete photo at high definition and its description from the European Space Agency follows:
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Using data from an all-sky image of M33—a galaxy similar to ours—scientists at the Hubble mission have reconstructed the look of the Milky Way 11 billion years ago.
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Maybe we’re entering that time of year when you never want to leave your house. That’s just fine, because there are plenty of beautiful things for you to pass your time with right here. From a cloud bridge, to perfectly looped GIFs, here are the most beautiful items of the week.
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