Thursday, January 31, 2013

Not Your Ordinary Tree House


























Three swaying wooden sphere accommodations, up in the trees in Vancouver. Best of the tree houses in NYT T Magazine. 


Freespiritspheres> http://tinyurl.com/ae4dmmm

All You Need Is a Lot of Ma

















Japanese "Coupled House" demonstrates the use of "ma" = empty space. 

Interiors and floor plan via designboom>http://tinyurl.com/b7qlwes


Concrete Summer House in Argentina













Concrete summer house in Argentina. 1000 sq ft.


Details via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/akprv7j



Save the FBI Building

















Save the Brutalist FBI building in DC! Perfect for its time and site; still an effective image for FBI. Push the FBI into the suburbs and into invisibility? For architectural madness, see Wikepedia entry below....But where is the Times architecture critic?

NYT Real Estate> http://tinyurl.com/ass28t2

Elegant Swiss Agrcultural Shed














 Expressive and elegant agricultural shed in Switzerland. Uses local typologies and topology, plus local materials.

Go to designboom> http://tinyurl.com/ba37weu

World's Most Elegant Oyster Shack










Is this the "world's most elegant oyster shack" as claimed by Remodelista? Yes. It is on the coast of Brittany.

Remodelista story and more pix> http://tinyurl.com/aju63of


Tree House Is Not What You Think





















Concrete "tree" (main structural support) imitates real tree growing through house....

Found at subtilites.tumblr> slideshow>http://tinyurl.com/aa47x66