Shabon house

Photo © Eiji Tomita
shabon n. soap ; soap bubbles.
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FW.house: a biker’s home


© atelierA5
 
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The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman


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The Eternal City


Photo © Renato Cerisola
 

Luci nella città eterna di Renato Cerisola

Eyes turned to the Eternal City, I’m not the only one to follow its early morning trail across the backbone of bridges, beyond the rivers that run into the sea.
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明けましておめでとうございます!
 

Lawrence Weiner @ Marian Goodman Gallery, New York


North Gallery installation view @ Marian Goodman Gallery
 
a quote we like:
“People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that’s fine too. They don’t have to buy it to have it – they can have it just by knowing it. Anyone making a reproduction of my art is making art just as valid as art as if I had made it.”

Through January 21, 2011

Beach Road 2


via Hughes Umbanhowar Architects
 

(A Postcard from Jupiter Island, Florida)

Like driftwood collecting in courses on the beach, the house comfortably nestles in the interstices between waterfront and road along a narrow site on the northern coast of Jupiter Island.
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The Other Rome


via Design Observer
 

The Roma of Rome: Heirs to the Ghetto System

In Italy today, politicians have become the lead architects of a low-cost human-warehousing system designed to contain the minority Roma, or Gypsy, community. Visitors to the city remark that the visibility of the Roma — especially around train stations, restaurants and tourist sites — is lower than in past decades.
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House in Matsubara


© TSC Architects
 
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Kakamigahara House


© MDS Co.Ltd
 
Who would think of designing a house around an event that takes place once a year? The owner wanted the house to be where his family and friends could enjoy the unobstructed view of the fireworks at Inuyama castle, which takes place in August every year Continue Reading…

Martello Tower Y: a Napoleon-proof house in Suffolk

 

Photos © Edmund Sumner
 
Duncan Jackson of Billings Jackson Design worked with Piercy Conner Architects to convert a small decaying fort into Jackson’s awesome new home Continue Reading…