The beautiful Dune House in Thorpeness, UK by JVA and Mole Architects. Wowza! Full post and more images on i need a guide.
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Blog:Dune House
Blog:Pre Fab Power Plant
This Pre Fab bean-like beauty known as the “FabLab” actually produces more energy than it consumes. Designed to be setup almost any where in the world this award winning energy producing home combines aesthetics with eco-friendly. The house is constructed mainly of laser cut plywood and is meant to live outside the power grid. Learn…
Blog:Allendale House by William O’Brien Jr.
This is not the A-frame you stayed in during that summer at church camp. The Allendale House known as “A Cabin of Curiosities” is the combination of three sections of A-frame linked together. “The house aims to undermine the seeming limitations of a triangular section by augmenting and revealing the extreme proportion in the vertical…
Blog:The House That Erik Spiekermann Built
Take five minutes of your busy day to tour Erik Spiekermann’s San Francisco home. You will not be disappointed. I wasn’t. View the article and more of the images here. (via Dwell and Mig Reyes)
Blog:The Splay Bench
This bench by Frank Cresencia is stunning: Splay Bench explores the relationship between the interior and exterior spaces created by furniture. Here, slats are used as an opportunity to create an exterior surface, while exposing the interior space between them. The inverse barrel form is sliced so that the relationship is between the bench and…
Blog:The Black House
While browsing Comtemporist, I ran across this house by Andrés Remy Architects aptly named The Black House. The house, built in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a striking geometric mix of glass, water, and light in contrasting black & white. In short, I’m in love. Read the architect’s thoughts on this project, and see plenty of…
Blog:Facebook’s new digs
Studio O+A recently completed Facebook’s new Palo Alto office. Formerly a lab for Agilent Technologies, O+A remodeled this laboratory to house Facebook’s 850 employees who were previously scattered between 10 locations. O+A interviewed staffers at all levels and came up with a space that suits a vibrant, young staff. Oh, and it’s also the first…
Blog:Wil Natzel’s gigantic cardboard squid
Wil Natzel recently sent us photos of his thesis project Cardboard Beam with Giant Squid – a corrugated 30 foot cardboard beam hung from two opposing walls. Assembled using hot-glue and precision laser cut cardboard, the cardboard giant squids buttress the beam against the wall at either end. Each end of the giant squid contains…
