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
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
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