Tokyo-based French photographer and video artist Samuel Cockedey has made a specialty of creating beautiful time-lapse videos of Tokyo.

His latest creation, Android Dreams, is a tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis, whose atmospheric work on Blade Runner has been a huge source of inspiration in Cockedey’s shooting time lapses.

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Founded by Yair Alony and Meny Hilsenrad, Studio Aiko is a dynamic studio specializing in a wide variety of CG content and visual effects.

The Desert Villa is their first attempt to merge “the magical scenery of the desert with a modern architecture of a villa. [They] took the idea a step forward in a mysterious & humoristic way.”

Don’t be fooled, this dream home doesn’t exist, but the animation is absolutely awesome, especially with a headset on!

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In this movie filmed in the beautiful “De Ploeg”, a former factory designed by Gerrit Rietveld on the outskirts of Eindhoven, the ringing of an alarm clock triggers a chain of events that opens umbrellas, spins paper windmills, starts a fire and releases a set of parachuting toy animals.

Dutch design studio HeyHeyHey originally constructed the machine, named Melvin, during Dutch Design Week 2010 but reassembled this improved version a year later.

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Claudio Nardi and his daughter Alice have teamed together to create a home that is open to “modern travelers, made of a sensitive mixture of materials, settings, furnishings, of antique objects and contemporary architectural details: a cross-sectional landscape for curious minds.”

Located in Florence, Italy, Riva Lofts is a 8,600 square foot boutique hotel that consists of eight studios, each with independent entrance.

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Australian studio Ian Moore Architects has completed the Strelein Warehouse project in 2010.

For a budget of $700,000 Australian dollar, the architects have converted a former grocery warehouse into a two story, one bedroom home.

The now 1,614 square foot residence is located in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Toronto-based studio Altius Architecture has completed the North Kingsway Residence renovation project in 2010.

Located in Etobicoke, a dissolved municipality located within the current city of Toronto, Canada, this post-war 1,600 square foot single family house was completely remodeled, and a 750 square foot addition was added to the rear of the existing building to house the kitchen and the master bedroom in the upper floor.

09/21/11: Before/After photos added, elevations, sections, floor plans before and after added.

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Falmouth-based interior designer Kathryn Tyler of Linea Studio has designed and built her own house, the Corkellis House.

Located in Falmouth, a town on the south coast of Cornwall, England, and completed in 2010, the Corkellis House is a mix of modern architecture with Mid-Century Scandinavian furniture.

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Brooklyn photographer Lori Nix works with miniatures and model to create surreal scenes and landscapes.

She can spend weeks, if not months, hand-fashioning tabletop dioramas specifically to capture in just the right light with her camera.

Her project “The City” depicts eerie abandoned buildings in a post-apocalyptic world.

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Vancouver-based studio Marko Simsic Architect has designed the Swanwick Ranch, a contemporary home located in Metchosin in Greater Victoria, British Columbia.

Completed in 2006 and built by Anderson Cove Construction, the 8,300 square foot, eight bedroom, eight bathroom residence sits on a 67 acre lot with over 1,400 feet of low-bank oceanfront.

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Tokyo-based studio Fuse-Atelier has completed the House in Abiko project, a three-story contemporary house in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

The brief from the owners, a married couple in their 30s, was for a concrete, gallery-like space where they could showcase their collection of design furniture.

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