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Makeup Artist Who Dons Gorgeous Skull Inspired Looks

British makeup artist Vanessa Davis, also known as “The Skulltress” has taken the internet by storm, her amazing motifs inspiring many to take up the beautiful art of face painting.

Tent House in Waiheke Island

Having won New Zealand’s Best Spatial Design award for Residential Interiors, Chris Tate’s Tent House is a masterpiece of monochrome built with sharp lines and interesting angles. Sleeping below a tent on Waiheke Island, Chris envisioned a home with a similar triangular architectural form - simple, beautiful and playful. This idea sparked a project to build a collapsed tent house frame, and after two years of hard work, Tent House was completed.

Since the inspiration was a triangular form, this posed several engineering and architectural issues, particularly on safety as the walls were not in conventional 90-degree angles. Chris tried around 30 different options during the 2D-drawing stage to ensure the home would work structurally and functionally. “It came down to which shape looks best and what angles worked best on the site to maximize the shape. It was purely visual, followed by dissecting the design into cross-sections so the descending height walls would all fit in seamlessly and be safe for walking up to, despite the slope,” said Chris.

BRUMA Winery in Baja California

From the architect TAC Taller de Arquitectura Contextual:

BRUMA winery is located in the wine region of Baja California, in the Guadalupe Valley, the winery is part of a complete project which includes a hotel and villas. It is a project completely integrated to the environment, in spite of its magnitude you can barely notice it from the road. Most of the project is made from recycled wood and steel structure. It is covered with a landscape conformed of plants from the site.