Just got back from an amazing trip to Tokyo: stayed near this tourist centre by Kengo Kuma which is a great interpretation of the layers and form varieties in the local architecture
Just got back from an amazing trip to Tokyo: stayed near this tourist centre by Kengo Kuma which is a great interpretation of the layers and form varieties in the local architecture
Lovely Japanese House with Internal Courtyard (via House J by Keiko Maita Architect Office)
Eileen Gray, architectural cabinet, 1926
source: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/hans2463/architecture/2008/02/eileen_gray_still_cool.html
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Carabanchel Housing with bamboo sun screens. Madrid, Foreign Office Architects, 2007
Bamboo facade
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Nigeria’s Cost & Energy-Efficient Floating Schools (by NLÉ)
The Makoko Floating School is an ambitious project that is currently under construction in the water community of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria by NLÉ, a collaborative agency whose mission is to provide architectural change for developing cities. The project seeks to create floating buildings that are designed to serve as educational classrooms for neighborhood children.
The three-story architectural structure, built as a triangular prism, is intended to float on water with a base made of 256 plastic drums. The floating construct is built with locally sourced wood, electrically powered with solar panels, and designed to house about 100 students.
While this first generation of floating buildings is being designated solely as educational center, the project is opening a new chapter in architectural design that can be applied to a variety of facilities for poor communities like Makoko to urbanize efficiently. Because of the project’s green initiatives, each building is more affordable and cost-effective. Additionally, they accommodate for the climate changes that are resulting in the rise of sea levels.
Floating Schools in Nigeria as a cost-effective and green way of providing education
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Storylines
London’s iconic tube map is transformed into a pit-stop journey through classic styles of storytelling, with the individual tube lines turned into genres and sub genres of literature. The depths of the Northern Line are made over into the aptly named Horror Line. The Bakerloo Line coursing past Sherlock Holmes’s Baker Street becomes, of course, the Crime & Mystery Line. And the pink trajectory of the Hammersmith & City is converted to the Romance Line. Each Storyline features a range of illustrations bringing to life both classics and mavericks from that theme, with a genre-defining work lurking at each journey’s end. Stations falling on intersecting Storylines get a sub-genre cross over. Many many days and weeks were spent researching and crafting this piece.
(via thisbigcity)
performance architecture - construction with clothes by dantiope
Coloured louvres allowing glimpses of the central courtyard of this primary school (via Nursery School in Berriozar by Larraz, Beguiristain and Bergera)
Tranquility in the city- Optical glass house ~ hiroshi nakamura & napa
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Aerial view of El Ateuf, M’Zab Valley, Algeria (32°27’N, 3°44’E)
(Source: noctuaries, via tomoso)
