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Winter 2010, mad pads The Upside Down House. Syzmback, Poland. Don't bother visiting the basement. Please login to leave comments >>
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Winter 2010, mad pads Sideways. To my eye, more good than mad. Please login to leave comments >>
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Winter 2010, mad pads The Ransom Canyon House. Lubbock, Texas. Not sure whether it makes me proud or embarrased to be a Texan. Please login to leave comments >>
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Winter 2010, mad pads The car house. Salzburg, Austria. Ok. I would definitely test drive it before moving in. Please login to leave comments >>
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Winter 2010, mad pads Not sure where this is. Not sure i want to know where this is. Please login to leave comments >>
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Winter 2010, mad pads The cactus house, in Rotterdam. Mad, yes. But interesting mad. Please login to leave comments >>
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Autumn 2009, the flake house This twist on the traditional log cabin by Olgga Architects in France is both inspired and inventive. Originally designed in 2006 for the CAUE 72 competition Petites Machines à Habiter (for which it was shortlisted), the cabin was exhibited at the Festival Estuaire 2009 in Nantes, France. via dezeen.com Please login to leave comments >>
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Autumn 2009, the flake house interior A clean, smooth and pleasingly proportioned interior space that we could imagine being sparsely furnished with the bare necessities. We view this house more as a conceptual exercise rather than a finished work ready to be inhabited. But the contrast between the rough exterior texture and the crisp, angular shape is more than a little appealing. Please login to leave comments >>
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Autumn 2009, eero saarinen: shaping the future Presented at the Museum of the City of New York from November 10, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future is the first retrospective of this architect’s career, which was one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial in the history of 20th-century architecture. From the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport and the St. Louis Gateway Arch to the Pedestal Chair for Knoll Associates, Saarinen (1910-1961) created some of the most potent expressions of American identity after World War II. Featuring sketches, working drawings, models, photographs, furnishings, films, and other ephemera, the exhibition examines the architect’s career from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future is organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, The Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, and the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., with the support of the Yale University School of Architecture. ASSA ABLOY is the global sponsor of Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. A companion publication of the same title, co-edited by exhibition curator Donald Albrecht, is available in the Museum Shop.
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Spring 2009, the mannahatta project
If you live in New York, this is a must. You can see what your block looked like 400 years ago. Think your pre-war building is old? This is pre, pre, pre, pre-war. “The goal of the Mannahatta Project has never been to return Manhattan to its primeval state. The goal of the project is discover something new about a place we all know so well, whether we live in New York or see it on television, and, through that discovery, to alter our way of life. New York does not lack for dystopian visions of the future…. But what is the vision of the future that works? Might it lie in Mannahatta, the green heart of New York, and with a new start to history, a few hours before Hudson arrived that sunny afternoon four hundred years ago?” - from Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City
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Spring 2009, mannahatta project One visual treat after another... Please login to leave comments >>
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Spring 2009, mannahatta project book On September 12, 1609, Henry Hudson first set eyes on the land that would become Manhattan. It's difficult for us to imagine what he saw, but for more than a decade, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson has been working to do just that. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City is the astounding result of those efforts, reconstructing, in words and images, the wild island that millions of New Yorkers now call home. Eric W. Sanderson is the Associate Director for Landscape Ecology and Geographic Analysis in the Living Landscape Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. He is an expert in the application of geographic principles and techniques to problems in wildlife, landscape, and ecological conservation. He lives in New York City. Markley Boyer has worked with the Wildlife Conservation Sociey creating maps and visualizations for a new series of National Parks in Gabon. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Spring 2009, mannahatta project book - the inside The inside of the book...wonderfully informative and a pleasure to look at... Please login to leave comments >>
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Spring 2009, mannahatta project radio Eric Sanderson is a captivating speaker - you could listen to him for hours. Please login to leave comments >>
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Spring 2009, mobius house My six-year old son Charlie came across a postcard in his school one day last week that was a photograph of this "cool looking house". The card was from the MoMA store, and the house was the Mobius House. He asked the teacher if he could take the card home to show his dad, who had just built a new website "about architecture and home design". She of course said yes, and he brought it home and asked if I liked the house and might want to include it on "our new site".
Because it's a great house, and because great taste at an early age needs to be encouraged, here it is. Please login to leave comments >>
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Spring 2009, mobius house Inspired by the mobius and located in the Netherlands, the house was designed by UN Studio/Van Berkel & Bos. The intertwining trajectory of the loop relates to the 24-hour living and working cycle of the family, where individual working spaces and bedrooms are aligned but collective areas are situated at the crossing points of the paths. Please login to leave comments >>
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Spring 2009, red and white There's something powerful, bold and confident about it that taps deep into our subconscious.. Is it because so many of us grew up when the landscape with dotted with family farms, their white symmetrical houses representing calmness and sanctuary and their red, solid barns representing the strength and vigor of a day’s work well-done? We’ll leave that discussion to historians and psychologists. But what we do know is that red and white, in combinations both overt and subtle, can form a palette that is both dramatic and active, yet soothing. As you think about re-doing a room or an entire house, the interjecton of color is vital. Beginning without a conceptual framework or overriding notion, all too often, the result is either a jumbled mess of incongruous “colors we like” or a tacky, “matchy-matchy” attempt gone terribly wrong. This time, instead of taking colors you like and building around them, try stripping all color away, creating a neutral environment. Then judiciously bring them back, beginning with just one, until you have a balance that feels right and a look you like. After you browse the pictures below, that one may just be red.
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Spring 2009, tread red Please login to leave comments >>
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