Thursday, January 31, 2013

Narrow But Elegant


















Elegant house on a narrow lot in Portugal.

Details at archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/afbdv6l

Cutting Edge House in Spain


























Stark concrete house in Spain. More neo-brutalism?

Via dezeen> http://tinyurl.com/a3xjq7a

4 Small Houses in a Mexican Garden


















 4 small-footprint houses in a Mexican garden. Project: compare footprint, area, and cubic feet. As usual not enough information. But they look good!

Pix & floorplans via archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/a7bvlcf

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