Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Portable Polyhedron Habitat




























Monday, March 25, 2013

The Reinvention of the Row House, in Texas






















Can the row house be reinvented? In Texas, each one is a slightly different shade of white. Remodelista, the Island of White, emphasizes a designer's interiors. In the next batch, each house should be a different color, other than white.

Details via remodelista> http://tinyurl.com/bof659y

Inward House with Palm





















The joys of an inward-looking house. Rooms are separate structures joined by bridges, stairs. And there's a palm tree.

Txt, plans, more pix via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/cet62qe

Toyo Ito Awarded Pritzker Prize






















Pritzker Prize goes to Toyo Ito, but I bet not for this 2011, 624 sq. ft. house. His big public buildings are....not Artopian.


Via nhi-shis-org> http://tinyurl.com/btxl48u

Spaceship House in New Thai Film






















Thai villagers build a spaceship in new Apichatpong 
Weerasethakul film.


http://tinyurl.com/a9wy8qh

Japanese Dancing Living House


















Japanese "Dancing Living House." Includes dance studio and parking. What else would you need?

via cubeme> http://tinyurl.com/a8mnruf

Broken Angel Doomed?






















Last days of Brooklyn's "Broken Angel?"

More pix and story via hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/af8e5c7



Panda Micro-House
























And those Japanese micro-houses just keep on popping up. This one is from Panda.

Txt, pix, floorplan via archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/c8sbb7q
Collection> http://pinterest.com/johnperreault1/new-japanese-houses/

Fly's Eye Restoration




















Buckminster Fuller "Fly's Eye" dome house to be restored.

Story via archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/ad3xg3q
Some past posts> http://artopiatecture.blogspot.com/

Flip This House!





















How to flip your townhouse. S.F "Flip House" reoriented to the rear.


Pix & txt at design-milk> http://tinyurl.com/byhw2sc
Some previous posts> http://artopiatecture.blogspot.com/


Japanese House of Framed Views























Japanese "Skyward House." Check out the interiors and floorplans. Simple outside masks orientation to framed views and actual interior shape, generated from views.

See interiors and floorplan on designboom>http://tinyurl.com/ayl3aqx

Wildflower Roof























  Japanese weekend house with wildflowers on the roof. 


  Txt & pix, go to gardenista> http://tinyurl.com/aoa4fdr



Sunday, March 24, 2013

Shipping Container Tea House






















Shipping container tea house....or pavilion....or garage....

Txt & pix, go to designboom> http://tinyurl.com/ajz2mu2

Minimal House with Gorgeous Interiors






















Wrapped in silence, sealed-off from sound. Japanese house deals with site by elegant withdrawal. Follow link to see gorgeous interiors...

Story, pix, interiors via domusweb> http://tinyurl.com/b5vy34g
Past posts> http://artopiatecture.blogspot.com/

Beautiful Wooden Swedish Barn-Style House





















Built-to-order Swedish-barn houses. Pine!

More info on designboom> http://tinyurl.com/apoqye3
Past posts> http://artopiatecture.blogspot.com/

Cabin in the Middle of Drina River






















Although usually serene, I confess I sometimes feel like this mid-river cabin made by school boys on the river Drina in Serbia in 1968. Go to link and check out video on intro page!

Via inhabitat> http://tinyurl.com/d6xm4qx

Sand Rug Resort


















Trending towards interiors today. How about this Portugese resort made up of buildings with sand floors? 

More px at design-milk> http://tinyurl.com/bfbhqf8

Penthouse With Four-Story Slide






















This is NOT a NY mini-apt. Downtown penthouse with four-story, stainless steel slide. 

More pix at dezeen> http://tinyurl.com/apl2lz6

Green Bathroom with Greenery






















"Green" bathroom proposed in Japan. One of the sponsors is TOTO, Japanese sanitary porcelain company. Have bathroom; need gardener.


More info at designboom> http://tinyurl.com/bx54yd5

Walking House


















Every Roof A Garden




















Monday, March 4, 2013

Visualizations Trump Drawings!














At last an answer to conservative Michael Graves in the NYT who prefers drawings to visualizations. Visualizations! In praise of the Unbuilt!

"Balloons and Render Ghosts" at domus>http://tinyurl.com/c37czzl
On the dark side> http://ny.curbed.com/tags/rendering-vs-reality


Ank Artist's Studio
















Always looking for ideas for a studio, I found this studio by Stijin Ank. No rooms! Actually, Ank contacted me.


Px & txt via domus> http://tinyurl.com/cy5jsqw


Dutch Dock Recreational House




















Recreational house on a dock on an island in The Netherlands with a view from each end. 

Px & txt via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/d2xcghv

Absalon Pods in Tel Aviv
















Absalon (1965-1983) exhibit opens at Tel Aviv Museum of Art --- visionary, all-white habitation cells in dialogue with the white city of Tel Aviv.

Via artdaily> http://tinyurl.com/cxhz9pa

Nigerian Floating School






















Prelude to a floating city of 250,000!This floating school in Nigeria is made with locally-sourced wood and is eqipped with solar panels!

Dutch Pirate Station Restaurant






















Dutch restaurant and office on site of pirate radio station. Looks like the future to me. Next: make these buildings walk.


Px & txt> http://www.archdaily.com/337557/rem-island-concrete/


Dutch Self-Sustaining House





















Dutch proposal for an amazing self-sustaining house. Look inside!

Px, txt via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/d755zdu

British Window Rules!















Too many building regulations? Example: British windows rule results in too many poky windows and Juliet balconies: "...all windows must be cleanable from within, by women aged 64–75, without the use of ladders or cleaning devices and without stretching." 


Article at guardian.uk> http://tinyurl.com/bswragv

Japanese Tree House






















Japanese Garden Tree House. Who needs sculpture?

Found on archdaily. Slideshow>http://www.ogaa.jp/project/GTH/GTH03.htm

Cube House
















"Cube House" in Japan. Artopia collects cubes. 

Details at thisispaper> http://tinyurl.com/bd3seac
Cubes> http://pinterest.com/johnperreault1/cubes/


House in Brittany















After seeing this house, I finally want to visit Brittany, the origin of the Perreaults.

More px & info at archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/b2mdazf

Small in a Big Way in L.A.






















"BIG & small House" in L.A. --- Volume exceeds square footage in two story, three-room house. Yes!

Px, txt, plns at dezeen> http://tinyurl.com/akb6ybw


Friday, March 1, 2013

Fibonacci Japanese Neo-Modern





















 Japanese neo-modern "Northern Nautilus" based on Fibonacci spiral. Small and gorgeous, inside and out.


Txt, px at dezeen > http://tinyurl.com/bdl8sjn

Thatched?





















Fresh from subtilitas on tumblr this renovated cottage by Proarh, Zagreb. Neo-modern thatched! 

More images> http://tinyurl.com/b39l483

Invisible Land Is Hot Air


















Hot Air. In NYC developers can buy, transfer, and build on "invisible land" i.e air rights. For more square feet and, above all, to own and sell a view.

NYT> http://tinyurl.com/actbbvj

How Big is Too Big?





















Is 925 square feet too big? Canadian house looks much bigger than it really is. And it is self-sufficient.

Details at dezeen> http://tinyurl.com/b7vv8ob