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

Tent Tenements Can be Elegant

Modular Tent "Tenements." Better to call them tentacles or tent villages or tent colonies.

First sited on living-off-the-grid then to> dornob>http://tinyurl.com/beoqc9b

Japanese TARDIS House for Family of Five

Another TARDIS house from Shinozaki. Inside is definitely bigger than outside....."House for a Family of Five." Dr. Who's telephone booth TARDIS is bigger inside then outside, really bigger. 

Slide show> http://www.shnzk.com/detail7.html