Tricycle house and garden, for parking lot living in China?
Story & pix @ designboom> http://tinyurl.com/cppq7co
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Chinese Tricycle House
Tricycle house and garden, for parking lot living in China?
Story & pix @ designboom> http://tinyurl.com/cppq7co
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Japanese Minimalist Mansion for Sale
"Minimalist" house outside Tokyo with mountain view. What 2.2 million $ will buy you. But see slide show.
Story and slides how via NYT> http://tinyurl.com/d6dfdbs
Furniture House
Back at last. Furniture house for your luxury loft. Parts pop out for furniture-on-demand.
Txt & pix @ inhabit> http://tinyurl.com/cscmoxy
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Berlin Aquadon Exposed!
Berlin Aquadon in Raddison Hotel exposed! Guests are not allowed to scuba dive....only maintenance workers.
Story @ inhabitart> http://tinyurl.com/7zvt4v2
Luxury Container Hotel
Units of a luxury shipping container hotel, from designboom's 10 best shipping container buildings of 2012.
Via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/cmnxntm
Memory House in Spain
Spanish "House of Would" is based on client's memories. Pre-fabricated wooden boxes, translucent bridges, unfinished wing.
Txt & pix via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/d9k44xh
Monday, December 24, 2012
Open City
"Open City," an intervention by Raumlaborberlin made of stacked sheds designed and built by different people for different purposes.
Txt, px & more projects @ designboom>http://tinyurl.com/c4vvjfj
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Boat House Writer's Retreat
English boathouse stripped and turned into writer's retreat. Beams exposed at last....I'll take it! Can it be moved to Long Island?
Txt & pix via dezeen> http://tinyurl.com/bo8orar (4 photos)
Make It Bigger
Extensions, additions, expansions and renovations are architecture too. A house in Germany doubled in size. Question: can a house be "improved" by size-reduction?
Pix via dezeen> http://tinyurl.com/bu743tf
Sauna-In-A-Box
Ironic gift idea --- 41k portable sauna, solar-powered. Judge not; want not.
Txt + pix via remodelista> http://tinyurl.com/cuhceyd
Friday, December 21, 2012
Oldest Wooden Architecture
Pegged at last? The world's oldest wooden architecture --- a well-lining.
Story and pix via hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/ce43nzp
Story and pix via hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/ce43nzp
Nomadic House
Nomad House for artists in residence, Utrecht and other sites.
Via kortekniesthulmacher> http://tinyurl.com/cdektnk
Via kortekniesthulmacher> http://tinyurl.com/cdektnk
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Each Spa Cabin a Camera
A spa/hotel in Norway where every cabin is like being inside a camera looking out at nature....
Txt & pix via remodelista> http://tinyurl.com/bvss7us
One Wing Soars in Portugal
Large house in Portugal with two wings. Only the irregular wing, pictured here, soars...
Via archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/ct2f27w
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Neo-Modern Clutter
New Japanese house titled "What Categorizes the City and Me." Site uncharacteristically shows lived-in clutter!
Text & pix @ designboom> http://tinyurl.com/bpxlnd6
Text & pix @ designboom> http://tinyurl.com/bpxlnd6
Swiss Cube House
Swiss cube house has two sections removed. Does this remind you of a certain minimalist artist?
Story & pix @ design-milk> http://tinyurl.com/d5hfdv5
More cubes> http://pinterest.com/johnperreault1/cubes/
Story & pix @ design-milk> http://tinyurl.com/d5hfdv5
More cubes> http://pinterest.com/johnperreault1/cubes/
Korean Container Art School
Although we favor residential architecture -- from houses to huts --- we also like buildings of all kinds made from shipping containers. So here's an art school in Korea.
Story, pix, etc. via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/bloyphx
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Viewing Tower Without Foundation
In The Netherlands new viewing tower purposely has no foundation.
Story & pix @ inhabitat> http://tinyurl.com/btargkz
Cubes in Austria
In Austria, single-cast concrete-shells of main house and guest house. Minimal structures = minimal impact on landscape.
Text, plans, pix via dezeen> http://tinyurl.com/chsah87
Vertical Corbu
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Vertical integration of new Japanese house. Corbusier's domino system on its side? See interior.
Txt & pix via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/cyvvvg9
Monday, December 17, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Only the Brave
Swedish guest retreat features cabin for one -- no insulation, tar paper roof with moss. Survivalist chic?
Story and pix @ remodelista> http://tinyurl.com/cdp6l4z
Story and pix @ remodelista> http://tinyurl.com/cdp6l4z
Cookie Cutter House Carport
Not your normal cookie-cutter house, in Guadalajara or anywhere else.
Txt & pix via design-milk> http://tinyurl.com/cozbvl8
Annual Swedish Ice Hotel
Annual Swedish ice hotel opens soon in Lapland with 16 suites decorated by winning artists, as yet unannounced. The suspense mounts. Newly designed hotel melts each spring.
Story & picture via artdaily> http://tinyurl.com/c2crqlp
Story & picture via artdaily> http://tinyurl.com/c2crqlp
Friday, December 14, 2012
Dumpster Housing for Poor and Elderly
Proposal to convert garbage dumpsters into housing for the poor and the elderly. Scary.
Story via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/bhkrpaf
Story via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/bhkrpaf
Gotland Prize-Winner
Gotland prize-winner, with sheltered courtyard.
Via remodelista, gorgeous interioirs> http://tinyurl.com/b7qtecq
Aussie Surfer-Mondrian
"Mondrian" house in Surfers Paradise, Australia. N.D
From tumblr > utilitarian-architecture>architectureofdoom
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Early Japanese Neo-Modern
Early stages of Japanese Neo-Modernism produced houses like Blue Box House (1971) by Mayumi Miyawaki.
Via Artopia Favorite> http://midcenturymodernfreak.tumblr.com/
Architecture of Doom
Not for the faint of heart. Artopia recommends architectureofdoom.
http://architectureofdoom.tumblr.com/page/5
Living Dangerously
Living dangerously? No info. I like it nevertheless. Is luxury that which makes you feel like a teenager?
Credit: http://luxurylifestylesblog.tumblr.com/post/37154229654
Credit: http://luxurylifestylesblog.tumblr.com/post/37154229654
Save the FBI Building!
FBI Hoover Building doomed? Fans of brutalism please protest!
Story via artdaily>http://tinyurl.com/b78wjtj
For brutalism check out Artopia favorite:http://tinyurl.com/a8jkq9y
House with Car Walls
Japanese house protected from parking lot...Adjacent houses in U.S. cities used to have "party walls." This house needed car and traffic protection.
Txt & pix via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/ambfktz
Monday, December 10, 2012
Writer's Pavilion
Daytime writer's pavilion attached to living quarters by covered walkway. I can dream can't I?
Txt and px via arquitectura-h> http://tinyurl.com/bhw9hkj
Shipping Container Disaster Relief
Shipping containers to be used for NYC disaster relief.
Story via archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/aphcbpp
Story via archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/aphcbpp
Sad Emergency Bed Cupboard
Emergency-housing bed cupboards designed by Dutch team for Salvation Army. Too Droog? Too sad?
Via huffingtonpost> http://tinyurl.com/ba5gp7j
Via huffingtonpost> http://tinyurl.com/ba5gp7j
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