Posts tagged as:
An ingenuitive city house featuring decent privacy from the street-level but allowing light and an organic feel through the use of light wells and trees. Alittle too bunkerish for my tastes but interesting nonetheless.
(via Dezeen » Blog Archive » …
{ 0 comments }
Who doesn’t love a beautiful staircase? You can’t help but admire it when, what stands in for a mundane detail of most buildings, get’s represented as something newly thought through and exciting.
(via Inside award winner: St Barbara Bastions by …
{ 0 comments }
I love seeing architecture that challenges. This proposed design for Wadi resort is breathtaking, incorporating the local geography but creating something spectacularly human-made. Click through the link below to see all of the images.
(via Dezeen ?…
{ 0 comments }
Amazing Building Mapping – Vimeo Festival from Dan Ilic on Vimeo. [Hat tip to kottke.org]
{ 0 comments }
““The tall, sleek, curving Vdara Hotel at CityCenter on the Strip is a thing of beauty,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. “But the south-facing tower is also a collector and bouncer of sun rays, which—if you’re at the hotel’s swimmin…
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Shigeru Ban focuses on architecture that is created from re-used material such as shipping containers and paper tubes.
{ 0 comments }
So imagine that you’re the city of Chicago, home to famous architects Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. You are widely respected for having the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), a school whose architecture was designed by Mies and houses the masterpiece known as Crown Hall. Given other options, why would you [...]
{ 0 comments }
As some of you know, I own a piece of mountain property in the hills above Walla Walla that we use for camping. The property overlooks the Walla Walla valley and consists of an excavated flat spot, driveway, shed and fire pit – that’s it. The remoteness of the property and the fact that we [...]
{ 2 comments }
Lately, in strident conversations with friends, I’ve noticed myself returning to a particular viewpoint. For ease of use, let’s call it the “imagine everyone lived that way” view. When my friends discuss locavorism or transportation one of the first things I try to do do is scale the conversation to infinite participants and see where [...]
{ 4 comments }
Two new Roberto Bolaño novels (as well as a piece believed to be the 6th section of the 5-part “2666″) have been discovered “2666″ is one of the most anticipated books I have on my “to read” shelf at home. Based on the reviews, I know it’s going to be right up my alley. With [...]
{ 0 comments }
