A Striking Slovakian Apartment Building

North Star Rising, the four story brick housing project designed by the Slovak architectural firm, Nice Architects, is stylish down to its reinforced concrete floor slabs. Slideshow

Situated in Senec, a suburb of Bratislava and a popular summer destination, North Star Rising is a starkly iconic building. Jutting up into the sky, its nearly triangular design realizes the architectural possibilities of a somewhat oddly-shaped urban lot.