Beautiful concrete work in the stunning Tama Art University Library, Tokyo, by Toyo Ito.
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Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright in LEGO… I am so excited about this..!
Created in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Brickstructures, Inc. and the LEGO Architecture brand, the first two sets in the series are The Guggenheim and Fallingwater.
Via PrairieMod.
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The San Francisco offices of Artis Capital Management, designed by Rottet Studio, looks less like an office and more like an art gallery with it’s floor to ceiling windows and Zaha Hadid furniture.
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Photographic evidence that having a taste for modernism doesn’t necessarily make you a cold and stuffy anal retentive geek.
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Nice finish to this super minimal, boutique hotel inspired, penthouse apartment by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen and Kasper Rønn of Norm Architects.
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The Ciussai radiator, from Ad Hoc, demolishes traditional perceptions of heating and becomes an aesthetic object of design playing with the classic function of irradiating heat.
The great thing about this radiator is the possibility of absolute personalisation and its ability to adapt itself to different situations. It can be lengthened, bent, stretched, rolled up, it can be transported and moved about. It can be hung from a nail and wound up on the wall, just like a watering hose; it can be wound around a steel bar fixed to the wall in a spiral and act as a clothes dryer; it can be rolled up on the ground and moved throughout the house at your discretion, according to where you wish to locate the source of heat. It could even be placed on top of the bedclothes to heat your bed!
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San Paolo Church, by architects Massimiliano Fuksas, is a beautifully conceived structure containing a vast internal suspended concrete cube, with apertures and hanging ornamentation to modify the daylight as it floods into the building from above.
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Whilst possibly a bit spartan for some people’s taste, this compact bedroom with it’s simple furnishing, naturally textured surfaces, neutral colour scheme and abundance of natural light, represents, for me at least, the perfect sleeping quarters.
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Whilst the exterior of A House in Dublin, by Dublin based architects, FLK, is a bit too slick for my taste, I love the use of sandblasted concrete and timber in the interior.
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Ryuji Nakamura works on the “design of architecture, landscape, interior, furniture, and so on”.
