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I wasn’t aware that rammed earth was such an efficient building source. I wonder what the upkeep is for buildings made this way? Do they wear down over time or can you form it hard enough to hold up over the long haul?

Not exactly certain why I’ve been so crazy on the architecture front lately but I love the bedroom and wooded setting behind this environmental home. The flow between the interior and exterior spaces seems really nice.

Homer Simpson as fine art. D’oh!

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Beautiful art by Peter Doig who has a show in London at The Tate right now.

Amazing pre-fab homes.

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Lovely vacation project home in New Zealand, cleaved down the middle to collect rainwater and with thick concrete floors acting as a passive solar heat sink.

The new CCTV building in Beijing is crazy cool.

Quoted: As part of Beijing’s efforts to look good for the summer Olympics its central TV station CCTV is getting brand

I bought a print of this art at Roq La Rue this weekend. They’re in getting framed now. I can’t wait!

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I just bought a print of this artwork form Roq La Rue over the weekend.

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I like the idea behind this tv easel stand but as any theater buff knows, getting the angle right is an important consideration. It doesn’t look to me that this tv stand will be able to get the tv perpendicular to line of site from a couch.

What is this world coming to? Nobody at Woolworths has heard of Lolita?

Quoted: An online campaign by a group of mothers has forced Woolworths to withdraw a line of bedroom furniture for girls called ‘Lolita’.

Beautiful pictures of underground farms in Tokyo.

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An absolutely beautiful Los Angeles hills house with a stunning outdoor theater. Wow.

For fans of the TV show “Firefly,” this is supposed to be a pretty great piece of fanfic.

Architectural photography by Kurt & Walter.

Amazing steel construction prefab homes. Check out the video of the 11k sq ft 3-day installation of the house in Vegas. Crazy cool and crazy pricey but they look quite sturdy and nice.

One of the coolest buildings I have ever seen. Ski in and ski out from any floor?

Quoted: One of Copenhagen-based architecture design team BIG’s newest projects is this awesome hotel and apartment complex designed specifically for hard core skiiers in Norway. It’s built in layers along the natural slant of the mountain so that residents and guests can ski in and out no matter what floor they’re staying on.

Wonderful example of thoughtful design.

Quoted: Anybody who likes to go to the park after a good rainstorm knows the butt-soaking hazard of still-wet bench…

84 square feet of lovingly made house. I’ve got to say, the opportunity to live without a mortgage sounds mighty appetizing.

Writer Michael Pollan has an adorable writing house. I’d like one of those!

I love the idea. Famous writer gives short story messages in a bottle. The recipient has the option to bash the story out of there or leave it as it is.

Quoted: So this is cool: Michael Swanwick, who has published both a new novel (The Dragons of Babel) and a new collection of short stories (The Dog Said Bow-Wow) in the last four months, unwinds by writing short-shorts, sealing them in a bottle, then destroying every other copy or draft of the novel that exists on paper or hard drive. And then he gives it away—”usually to a charity auction or such, but sometimes to a friend,” he explains. “The owner of the bottle, whoever he or she is, can either read the story or else possess the object—but cannot do both.”