Honda Civic 1972

Honda Civic 1972

AMC Pacer - hatchback 1976

Alien Skin Software, LLC Photoshop Photo and Design Plugins

Alien Skin Software, LLC Photoshop Photo and Design Plugins: "Simple Tools. Simply Beautiful.
Alien Skin Software makes Photoshop plug-ins for photographers and graphic designers. We distill advanced math and cutting edge research into simple tools that render beautiful pictures."

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Maison de pecheurs

Maison de pecheurs © Isabelle Goudard juillet 1997
une maison de pecheur toute tourdue mais pleine de charme
Thaïlande
http://www.routard.com/photos/thailande/7636-maison_de_pecheurs.htm

Bluecanvas - The Artist Network

Bluecanvas.com is an international, multi-genre, online community of artists and art lovers. Bluecanvas magazine is a quarterly publication that features artists from its online community. We hope everyone will be able to find inspiration that reaches across genres, and hope that Bluecanvas can provide the right tools for our users to inspire everyone, artists and non-artists alike. Bluecanvas: The Artist Network:

Eric de Maré's secret country - Photography

Eric de Maré's secret country

Eric de Maré's sublime photographs of British industrial buildings forced postwar architects to look again at the landscape.
His influence is still felt today...

Shock of the old ... Eric De Maré's 'skyscrapers' in Hastings.
Photograph: Eric de Maré
- From: http://m.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/16/eric-de-mare-architectural-photography?cat=artanddesign&type=article















Shipbuilding on the Clyde and Palace Pier, Brighton.
Image from RIBApix
- From: http://www.ribablogs.com/?tag=exploring-eye-goes-to-liverpool

Series 21 Bocci. Designer Omer Arbel

Series 21 Bocci

Designer Omer Arbel ...

Photo: http://www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com/accessories/series-21-one-pendant-canopy-by-bocci.html

In Memoriam: Carl Baum, trestle-maker

Baum’s EMP simulator testing a B-1B Bomber on
Ki

rtland Air Force Base in 1989

- a wooden structure, two football fields long, over an 20-acre, bowl-shaped arroyo deep inside Kirtland Air Force Base.

Erected between 1972 and 1980 at a cost of $60 million, he nicknamed it “the trestle” because he said it was inspired by a railroad bridge.

Petitjaune - My sister - Malene

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Flugten fra hverdagslivet - Claus Bech-Danielsen taler omsommerhusets fordele med Poul Friis.- DR P1

Flugten fra hverdagslivet

Vi laver kun det vi har lyst til i sommerhuset. Det har traditionelt været et frirum for overklassen og middelklassen, men sommerhusene ligner mere og mere vores almindelige boliger.
- Claus Bech-Danielsen taler om sommerhusets fordele med Poul Friis.

Flugten fra hverdagslivet 
P1 Formiddag 03. maj 2012 kl. 09:10 på P1
Hør udsendelsen (51:00) - link

ARKITEKTUR I TRÆ - Arkitekturguide til træbaseret byggeri - arkitrae.dk

ARKITEKTUR I TRÆ - Arkitekturguide til træbaseret byggeri - arkitrae.dk

Træinformation  
Lyngby Kirkestræde 14  
DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby
tlf. +45 45280333  
email: traeinfo@traeinfo.dk  

http://www.traeinfo.dk/

Car race - SIMON DAVIDSON photographer's emotive images of extrememotoring...

"Something clicked that night sitting on the hill watching Matt and the other cars race; it wasn’t just the old cars but the people who captured my imagination... from: tp://www.weheart.co.uk/2012/04/25/simon-davidson/

Issuu Publishing - Book Design

Open publication - Free publishing - More book design

Abstract Beats, Samurais and Ninjas plus more

http://www.dragontape.com/#!/4739283

"Dawntempo" from Bechski on Dragontape

Link dragontape.com - Dawntempo" from Bechski
more
App: http://itunes.apple.com/app/dragontape/id427536318

At-vejledning om arbejdspladsens indretning og inventar - Arbejdstilsynet.dk

Fra: At-vejledning om arbejdspladsens indretning og inventar

Celsing Architects from Sweden

http://www.celsing.se/project_list.php

Lundgaard og Tranberg Arkitekter A/S har vundet konkurrencen ” Törnrosen tower – an urban landmark” i Malmø.

April 04


Lundgaard og Tranberg Arkitekter A/S har vundet konkurrencen ” Törnrosen tower – an urban landmark” i Malmø.
 
 
 
 
 
Projektet skaber fortætning i Rosengårdskvarteret i Malmø i form af et tårn, lavere ny bebyggelse samt nye by – og haverum.


Introduction / Vision
Our proposal to transform Rosengård into a revitalized, dynamic, urban neighborhood is rooted in the desire to activate the district’s social potential through the concentration and integration of new building forms, urban rooms, and landscapes into the existing monolithic urban structure. The variegated and rich layers of historic city centers provide the inspiration for a gradual concentration of the spatial, social, and functional layers necessary for an attractive and dynamic urban quarter.
Rosengårdstråket is transformed into an articulated urban promenade; a folded boardwalk that unites the neighborhood and takes its place in an overall strategic plan for Malmö as part of chain of public spaces and paths that connect to the city center.
The new boardwalk acts as a connector and catalyst within the city. The boardwalk is an expansive, paved, folding urban surface that follows Rosengårdstråket, forming the backbone for activity and densifi cation. The boardwalk rises up and down, creating a series of new urban spaces, overlooks, and gathering spots, interweaving existing buildings with new building types, functional urban hybrids, and exciting scalar jumps.
At the intersection of the Västra Kattarpsvägen and Rosengårdstråket, where the Rosengård district crosses the city thoroughfare, Rosengård Tower rises as a symbol of diversity and openness – a vertical manifestation of the vital and dynamic city district. The tower is a vertical continuation of the boardwalk, folding and reaching upward, like a narrow winding street in a mountain village, with stairs, small public squares, and public functions looking out over Malmö and uniting a community in Rosengård’s Culture Casbah.


http://www.ltarkitekter.dk/da/news/archive/2012

Under Pohutukawa Beach House by Herbst Architects

Under Pohutukawa Beach House by Herbst Architects

Sunday, 23 October 2011 17:26

Auckland-based architectural studio Herbst Architects has designed this stunning two-story beach house, Under Pohutukawa in Piha North, a coastal area in northern New Zealand. Built on a site covered with mature Pohutukawa trees, the residence is designed to resonate with the surrounding trees.

The house is spectacular both inside and out, especially the inside living room which opens up to the forest allowing natural light and air circulation inside the house.

The main structures of the house are two towers "which are construed as freshly sawn stumps of the trees that were removed." One tower houses the bedroom while the other serves as a garage.

A large public space with a living room, dining area and a kitchen, connects the two towers. The roof of the public space
is supported by a series of elements which are inspired by the tree trunks and branches.

The Under Pohutukawa beach house has won the NZIA Auckland architecture award 2011.

Photography: Patrick Reynolds,

Via: HomeDSGN

‘Cities’ by olschinsky

http://lookslikegooddesign.com/cities-illustration-olschinsky/

Reflection of Mineral / Atelier Tekuto | ArchDaily

Reflection of Mineral / Atelier Tekuto | ArchDaily: 

"Reflection of Mineral / Atelier Tekuto"

Atelier Tekuto © Makoto Yoshida

Modern Okurayama Apartment Design by Kazuyo Sejima | Home and House Design

"Modern Okurayama Apartment Design by Kazuyo Sejima
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Located in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, architect Kazuyo Sejima has designed a three-storeys apartment building design which built with reinforced concrete structure. The apartment building exterior is designed with sinusoidal pattern, creating such a dynamic wave forms."

Modern Okurayama Apartment Design by Kazuyo Sejima | Home and House Design:

Skatepark Zap Ados - Bang Architects

Skatepark Zap Ados - Bang Architects

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/02/14/zap-ados-by-bang-architectes/ 

Sphere House - Eduardo Longo - São Paulo

STAR WHEEL HORIZON

[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods

(with additional design and modeling by Paul Anvar)].

STAR WHEEL HORIZON

After posting a project by Jimenez Lai back in January, Lebbeus Woods got in touch with an earlier project of his own, called Horizon Houses (2000).

In his own words, the Horizon Houses are "are spatial structures that turn, or are turned, either continuously (the Wheel House) or from/to fixed positions (the Star and Block Houses). 

They are structures experimenting with our perception of spatial transformations, accomplished without any material changes to the structures themselves. In these projects, my concern was the question of space. The engineering questions of how to turn the houses could be answered by conventional mechanical means—cranes and the like—but these seem clumsy and inelegant. The mechanical solution may lie in the idea of self-propelling structures, using hydraulics. But of more immediate concern: how would the changing spaces impact the ways we might inhabit them? These self-transforming, perpetually off-kilter structures would, in a sense, contain their future horizon lines within them, as they rotate through various, competing orientations, both always and never completely grounded.

[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods

(with additional design and modeling by Paul Anvar)].

Each house in the series thus simultaneously explores the visual nature—and spatial effect—of the horizon line and the vertical force of gravity that makes that horizon possible. 

[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods

(with additional design and modeling by Paul Anvar)].

As Woods phrases it, "Gravity is constantly at work on the materials of architecture, trying to pull them to the earth’s center of gravity. An important consequence is that this action establishes the horizon." However, he adds, "in the absence of gravity there is no horizon, for example, for astronauts in space. It is from this understanding that Ernst Mach developed his theory of inertia frames, which influenced Albert Einstein’s relativistic theory of gravity"—but, that, Woods says, "is another story."

[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods

(with additional design and modeling by Paul Anvar)].

The Star House, seen immediately above and below, was what brought Woods to comment on the earlier post about Jimenez Lai; but the other "ensemble variations," as Woods describe them, while departing formally from the initial comparison with Lai's own project, deserve equal attention here.

[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods].

It also compels the house always to be on the verge of moving again, unlike the jagged, semi-mountainous points of the Block and Star Houses.

The Block Houses appear to be in a state of barely stabilized wreckage following an otherwise unmentioned seismic event—which is fitting, as the rest of Woods's descriptive text (available on his website) offers seismicity as a key force and generative parameter for the project. If the earth itself moves, what sort of architecture might embrace and even thrive on that motion, rather than—unsuccessfully—attempt to resist a loss of foundation? 

[Image: From Horizon Houses (2000) by Lebbeus Woods]. 

To say that these buildings thus exist in a state of ongoing catastrophe would be to fixate on and over-emphasize their instability, whereas it would be more productive to recognize that each house rides out a subtle and unique negotiation of the planet—where "the planet" is treated less as a physical fact and more as a gravitational reference point, an abstract frame of influence within which certain architectural forms can take shape.

In other words, the urges and pulls of gravity might nudge each house this way and that—it might even pull them over into a radically new orientation—but the architecture remains both optically sensible against its new horizon line and, more importantly, inhabitable.


Taken together, this family of forms could thus roll, wander, and collapse indefinitely through the gravitational fields that command them.


For a bit more text related to the project, see Woods's own website.


From: bldgblog.blogspot.com

Shinagawa House - News - Frameweb

Shinagawa House, Tokyo
by Be Fun Design

In a 36-sq-m plot at the edge of Shinagawa, Tokyo, a two-storey dwelling embodies the jaunty spirit of its residents: a young couple who are trekkers and climbers.

The interior is an open vertical space where different areas of the house are defined by volumes instead of simple walls. On the ground floor, the bathroom is in a glass box that rests on an elevated level. Tucked below the bathroom are the bedroom wardrobes, where the simple futons are stored.

A vertical tension is enhanced by the presence of a suspended hollow volume on the first floor. The space is covered with OSB panels to form a climbing wall.

From the exterior, this volume extends through the roof and resembles an oversized chimney. Surprisingly, this chimney doesn’t omit ash or smoke, but people climbing up to a roof terrace.
Photos courtesy Hiroyuki Hirai."

Shinagawa House - News - Frameweb

Lik House - News - Frameweb

Lik House
by Satoru Hirota Architects

Japanese firm Satoru Hirota Architects sets a single family house in three tunnel-like volumes.
Located in Tokyo, where the client was born and raised, Lik House aspires to be a place of comfortable intimacy, says Satoru Hirota.
Three blocks, laid on the plot with angled trajectories, generate an irregular outdoor space that acts as a private square. The courtyard – a place for both physical and visual interaction – projects the interior into the surroundings.
People moving from one room to another feel as if they’re crossing transitional spaces. Dynamic, slender passages are only arrested by intermittent box-like elements in the interior.
Despite its remarkably narrow interior, large openings give the house a sense of openness and transparency and introduce a continuous play of light and shadow"

Lik House - News - Frameweb

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Villa Spies, Torö, Sweden, 1969 - From the Archive - Domus

Villa Spies

Torö, Sweden 1969 

From the Archive - Domus

"Villa Spies, Torö, Sweden, 1969— Made entirely of plastic, this fully circular villa was designed by Swedish architect Staffan Berglund for the Danish airline magnate Simon Spies; for years ignored by architecture critics, it has recently been revisited in a monograph."

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Home Office - RIBA

Peter Barber and associate Phil Hamilton

From: http://www.ribajournal.com/index.php/feature/article/home_office_NOV09/