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MARWAN AL-SAYED house of earth + light
Habitrail hamster homes
ball, bubble and egg chairs
CONRAIL Cabins & Cabooses
the Japanese architectural collective of Atelier Bow-Wow plays in the margins. Their designs for Tokyo are for the areas left undeveloped under freeways and bridges and between buildings. They see their role as architects as not adding more buildings to an already overbuilt urban environment, but to explore utilizing the left over spaces
From (Im)possible to Virtual Architecture
Serge Gainsbourg French Provocateur
shakes and shingles
International Communities
How Not To Build Your Community Home
It's a scene right out of Tolkien. Elves and gnomes must have come out of the mist to create these dwellings--curved cottages of tree poles and cedar shakes, sculpted earthen walls, convoluted stone foundations. Roofs curve and soar like fronds or bird wings; some are topped by grass or moss. They rise like mushrooms in a 12-acre meadow on a ridge in northwest Washington, surrounded by a fir and cedar forest that looks west across the Skagit River Valley to Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains beyond. Amidst conifers, apple orchards, berry patches, and vegetable gardens, the structures in this Ecotopian fantasy world were not built by elves and dwarves at all, but bySunRay Kelly
Purple Martin house
Lenticular Photography
a true Adirondack chair is homemade of scrap wood and there are millions of design mutations / Norm's features a horizontal arm, so your drink won't slide off
Rose O'Neil kewpie
Velvet Underground NYC
R M Schindler LA MOCA
against the nightmare of sameness
designed in 1938 by Argentinian architects Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet / manufactured by Knoll International, Inc USA, later by Stohr Import-Export GmbH, Germany / material: tubular steel frame, cloth cover / The butterfly chair was inspired by a chair used by British army officers in the 19th century. Unlicensed knock-offs and the loss of a Knoll copyright suit have made this one of the most copied chairs of the modern era
free jazz
set the controls for the center of the sun
origami modules
Fugs box
Kaufmann Kaufmann
engineer's aesthetic