Above Shipping Container Home from Lot-EK
There’s more on the post 12 Homes Made From Shipping Containers from Design Milk.
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![Preservation of the Mbaru Niang by Rumah Asuh on Flores Island, Indonesia.
“When I go to school what we learn is about modern structures, the concrete, the steel; but we never learn about this kind of building,” said Antar, explaining his decision to get involved in the project. “There’s a lot of things we can learn from these kind of buildings, like how we adapt with the [regional] climate.”
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Preservation of the Mbaru Niang by Rumah Asuh on Flores Island, Indonesia.
“When I go to school what we learn is about modern structures, the concrete, the steel; but we never learn about this kind of building,” said Antar, explaining his decision to get involved in the project. “There’s a lot of things we can learn from these kind of buildings, like how we adapt with the [regional] climate.”
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The design is amazing, the cost projection can’t be happy news to Apple. Read the article here.
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Sorry, view the video here.
Skyhouse by David Hotson and Ghislaine Viñas (by Dezeen)
An over-the-top penthouse in NYC called Skyhouse. For some reason this design reminds me of Gaudi’s work. Especially in the attic space. Gaudi might not have included a climbing beam though. You really should watch this video.
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Damien Chivialle has created an urban farm unit for agricultural use in city environments.
With the pollution and limited amount of space in major cities, it can be difficult to grow fresh, local produce. The unit, which is made out of a shipping container with a greenhouse roof addition, allows food to be farmed anywhere. The units use the aquaponics method in which fish feces are broken down in a sewage tank, then turned into fertilizer for the plants, which the plants then filter back into the water. In the past two years, three of Chivialle’s urban farm units have been built in Zurich, Berlin, and Brussels and we are hoping to see even more.
(thanks/via: Acqtaste a new food culture and lifestyle magazine)
Moby’s latest Tumblr post made me laugh. The house in question has a remote connection to Louis Kahn’s work (it features a lot of cement) but looks more like a compound you might see on a triangular lot in Abbotabad or the set of Zero Dark Thirty). Modernism is a delight but humans need light, horizons and the inspiration of a view. LA provides all sorts of Design and design?.
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Holy smokes on the surface this seems a mismatch (don’t get me wrong I love BIG’s work). This may really undate the look of the Mall.
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Great news! Rem Koolhaas to design Airport City in Doha, Qatar sometime in the future (first phase in 2022 just in time for the FIFA World Cup).
Ray & Charles Eames Timeline from Eames House
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Foster+ Partners work on the most amazing projects! This lunar colony will be printed with 3D technology? Would Newt love this? See a solar 3D printer turn sand into glass vessel here.
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Moby talks L.A. architecture, in anticipation of this spring’s Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
Moby’s tumblr about architecture in LA, and a video featured on Tumblr Storyboard.
“Musician, DJ, photographer, and architecture blogger Moby riffs on L.A. architecture in this video about the Getty-led initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.”
I really like that Moby has wrapped himself around LA architecture. I once thought LA should be pulverized the way demolished buidlings are pulverize but then I began to enjoy the odd mix. Moby says, “LA does have some of the best architecture on the planet, and it also has some of the worst architecture on the planet, sometime 10 inches away from each other.”
Featuring Moby’s music.
More Moby on the wierdly wonderful world of architecture in LA.
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West Kowloon Bamboo Theatre by William Lim
Wouldn’t it fun to celebrate the Year of the Snake by visiting this temporary bamboo structure in Hong Kong? (thanks/via: Dezeen)
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Raw beauty and haunting poetry emerge from the idiosyncratic collaboration between Swiss architect Peter Zumthor and the late French-born artist Louise Bourgeois in Vardø, Norway. Here in the country’s northeasternmost town (population: 2,000) above the arctic circle, you now find an arresting shrine to 91 people in the area who were tried and burned at the stake in the 17th century for the crime of witchcraft. Centuries later, the Steilneset Memorial for the Victims of the Witch Trials in Vardø officially opened June 23, presided by Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway. (source)
This project sucked the air out of me! The architect Peter Zumthor’s work is spellbinding. Interestingly he doesn’t consider architecture about designing form.
“Architecture is not about form, it is about many other things,” he said. “The light and the use, and the structure, and the shadow, the smell and so on. I think form is the easiest to control, it can be done at the end.” (source)
I love the weight of Zumthor’s creations and the way light penetrates his unusual spaces. Watch this slideshow on this page to see more images of the Steilneset Memorial to the Victims of the Witch Trials and read more on Dezeen here.
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