Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

frigid and raw, but awesome

this house looks like something Louis Kahn would have loved


click this link to see the rest of the house.

Friday, November 6, 2009

BAUHAUS exhibit to open at MOMA

Gropius, Meyer, and van der Rohe's brainchild on display:

"All of them lived somewhere between the world as they saw it and the world as they wished it could be. Their yearning, never fulfilled, haunts you long after you leave the show."




Thursday, November 5, 2009

Architecture for the Green Age...

Building With Whole Trees!

Roald Gundersen uses stripped forest trees to make beautiful, environmentally friendly structures. By taking the "weed" trees from the forest he is benefiting other plants, who receive more nutrients because there are fewer plants sharing the land. His firm is called Whole Tree Architecture and Construction.

To see more images, click here. 




Wednesday, November 4, 2009

architecture, renovation and nostalgia

Diana Kellogg knows how to create amazing spaces.

I love the idea of creating something totally new out of something old. Click here to see how the art collector Juerg Judin did just that with a 1950s gas station in Berlin.

And to address the topic of nostalgia, Wild Hearts' "Dancing on Our Tongues" video.