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Hyllie Water Tower, Malmö, Sweden. Finished 1973. Architect: Karl Ivar Stål. Photographed by Kim Holtermand.

Via Martin Klasch.

Three beautiful sliding screens divide up the ground floor of this office interior, designed by West Architecture for product design consultancy, Therefore.

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Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada, by Spanish architect Javier Peña of Xpiral, comprises two residences, one cantilevered above the other, with the lower volume built from stacked ceramic wine racks. Some of the holes in the wine racks that make up the lower level are plugged with coloured ceramic tiles.

Via Dezeen.

I really like this simple modular shelving system from String furniture.

Via Merchant_4.

Offcut, from Edwards Moore Architects, is a rustic bar stool formed from reclaimed timber off-cuts.

Loving the mix of concrete with burnt and carbonised cedar in this eel shop by Japanese architect Toru Shimokawa of stad. Shimokawa used the burnt wood to reference the charcoal over which eels are traditionally grilled.

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MAXXI Museum of 21^st Century Arts by Zaha Hadid. Awesome photo by Iwan Baan.

The wabi-sabi bathrooms of NORM.ARCHITECTS have an understated elegance and rustic modernist quality I really like, with a mix of clean white surfaces and natural materials that will gain patina and wear well with age.

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Just been checking out Erik Spiekermann’s pad over on Dwell. Not only does he have a stainless steel Bulthaup kitchen my wife would kill for, but also a two story bookcase accessible via a remote controlled mountaineer’s harness.  Even the boiler (actually a borehole heat exchanger that uses the warmth from 105 feet down below the surface of the earth) is freakin’ sweet.

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Awesome photo of the Weissenhof Estate, taken from the Taschen book Le Corbusier by Peter Gössel.

Via Daniel.