Swedish Slumming--- you can book different outdoor sites at "the homeless hotel" website and experience homelessness for yourself. Money goes to charity. I don't know what to make of this. Is it condescending?
Story & px at designboom> http://tinyurl.com/amozax7
Russian Opera House Uproar! Dominique Perrault plan rejected --- cost overruns, did not conform to building codes, sour cream soil. Public demand demolition of Diamond Schmitt substitute as too ugly. Perrault is at top. Diamond below.
Via ajarts> http://tinyurl.com/bakvrrt
"BASE" --- your Tokyo home and office. Live above your work; ladders for stairs; hanging clothes instead of closet. Skylights. Yes!
Details at leibal> http://tinyurl.com/a4nfwu9
Urban shipping-container greenhouse. We love greenhouses and we love the proportions of shipping containers.
Details at designboom> http://tinyurl.com/a45wqvf
For 21st Century living spaces. For 21st Century work loads. Desk bed! Well, it's better than commuting.
Txt & pix at inhabitat> http://tinyurl.com/d96koh2
Not a Japanese neo-modern; too big! Instead it's Farkas Molnar's 1932 Bauhaus villa in Budapest for sale or rent.
From Barbara Armstrong (Facebook) to details/realtor>http://tinyurl.com/c9scjgr
