Never Too Small has titled this video 5 Dreamy Australian Tiny Cabins which nails it. All five are great but the first one absolutely blew me away.
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Absolutely gorgeous library built into the earth in Chiba, Japan.
The cleft looks like a water drop when viewed from above. As you wonder into the approach and pass through the plowed ground, a corridor of bookshelves appears. Architectural elements such as beams and columns have been eliminated, while the concrete void slabs cantilever out from the outer retaining walls and wing walls. The floor, walls, and ceiling all have an earthen finish and connect smoothly, and the lawn that has been planted up to the vertical edge of the slab hangs down lushly and gives the space a sense of dampness. This detail allows for the balance of irrigation and water retention to be adjusted according to the season.
Designer is Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP and there are more images on their site.
Found via Yatzer.
In Hong Kong, skilled armies of scaffolders can erect enough bamboo to engulf a building in a day — even hours — using techniques that are thousands of years old, and have been passed down through generations.
Absolutely fascinating deep-dive page on Bamboo Scaffolding in Hong Kong.
Kimmo Metsaranta writes about their series, Notes On A Place:
The pictures in the series are reconstructed observations of my surroundings. I change the spatiality and the condition of the buildings, so that their function changes or disappears completely, and they are not tied to a specific time or place.
I don't know exactly what that means, but I love the pictures.
If you like these, you might also like my own series, Orange Grove Tool Sheds & Utility Boxes of Oliva, Spain.
More on Metsaranta's site. These are also available in book form.
The Royal Institute of British Architecture has awarded Six Columns their house of the year.
It is indeed a wonderful space, but I think I prefer Eavesdrop, one of shortlisted selections:
Modulus Matrix, a Community Housing project, took the International Prize.
More on the contest, including the other Shortlisted properties, on RIBA's website.
You ever see those images of future-spaces or -buildings that are "coming soon" and wonder who creates them?
One of the companies responsible is Design Distill and their work is great. Who wouldn't want to be in these places?
More at Design Distill.
Alex Hogrefe is one of the partners there and he's also responsible for the Visualizing Architecture site, which offers tutorials and has a blog, though it hasn't been updated in a few years. You can see some of this gorgeous work below.
London-based website, Modernist Estates, connects "owners of modernist homes directly with people who care about design and architecture." Long-term and short-term available.
Hannah Levesque makes very detailed custom paper architectural models.
Many more photos on Levesque's site, including close-ups and interior details. Wonderful stuff. There, you can order a custom job, or even purchase a DIY kit.
Folly offers off-grid sanctuaries for the discerning traveler. They've locations in the Mojave Desert (where these pics are from), as well as Joshua Tree and a farm in New York state.
See all their properties on the Folly Collection website.
"Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor."
Samuel Hughes' piece for Work In Progress explores this idea.
