The Donut Project

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 direction”

The interior of the cabin utilizes exposed storage and open shelving to fill the odd shape of the space and to square the rooms off. No details were spared on this cabin in the woods. See more photos of the Allendale and project renderings at wojr.org

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)

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 the floor of its environment, not the surfaces of the piece alone.

You can purchase it at Voos Furniture, only $1,800.

(via BLTD)

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 large photos at www.contemporist.com.

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 building to be built under Palo Alto’s 2008 Green Building Alliance. Jealous? Me too.

See the article and more photos at ArchDaily.

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 9 cardboard tentacles cantilevered in mid air.

Attempting an expansion in architectural Eclecticism, I endeavored to explore and revel in the expression of patterned surfaces and dare I say, Romanticism shunned by purely performative architecture. In doing so, I have allowed and made space for narrative to exist, to construct a Spatial Graffiti. In attempting to reach such ends, I chose the lowliest of materials, cardboard, to extract an ephemeral existence. With the application of cut cardboard layers, I have created a place where pattern and decoration can thrive in Architecture and not be immediately cast aside as purely historicism, to counteract the banal.

Give me cardboard and hot glue and I’ll struggle to make a decent gingerbread man. Pretty amazing work. Check out his site and architecture portfolio at www.icecycle.com.

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This sweet Penny Floor featured on Apartment Therapy is pretty amazing. This isn’t the first time it has been done, but it’s one of the nicest examples I’ve seen. The black grout really sets it off. This floor is at The Standard Grill in the Meatpacking District in NYC.

I have a love/hate relationship with minimal modernist furniture. In general, I love the design of it. However, design should include functionality/comfort and sometimes that is compromised for the cleanest lines. Other times they nail the look, nail the functionality – and sometimes when that happens it’s no longer accessible to regular people, as they can price chairs at thousands of dollars.

So when I saw this chair on BLTD, I wondered that the catch was? It’s a sweet looking chair for the affordable price of $128 and has a strange name. The chair is for sale at Urban Outfitters, and designed by Blu Dot.

My skepticism immediately questions the structural integrity of the chair. $128 isn’t much money for a chair, especially one that only has a couple metal bars preventing the chair from turning me into a human clothespin if it collapses. For those of you who don’t know me personally, I’m a large human being. I’ve snapped legs off of my fair share of those plastic lawn chairs, resulting in me on my ass. Would this chair hold me? How about if I were sitting in it and my (fictional) girlfriend leaped into my masculine arms? Would the chair buckle under the weight and/or lust?

If this chair can stand up to that, it’s a hell of a buy. It’s quite a looker. Buy it here, or I’m guessing you can probably see it at your local Urban Outfitters store.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, together with Lego have just released the Frank Lloyd Wright collection of Lego Architecture Building Sets, coinciding with his exhibition ‘From Within Outward’ at the Guggenheim Museum. The line currently consists of six buildings, including two of his most famous and recognizable buildings, the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum and Falling Water. How fun is this?! I might have to get back into Legos and put one of these bad boys together.

One of my favorite sites on the internet has finally come back online with new content. Stair Porn is dedicated solely to interesting, innovative staircases in both modern and classic styles. Unfortunately for some, there is no actual pornography. Check it out www.stairporn.org.