Plastic Moon

Via Design Milk

 

This private residence located in Tokyo and designed by Japanese architect Norisada Maeda Atelier takes “working from home” to the next level. It includes the home owner’s dental practice on the ground floor, which is accessible from an entrance separate from the owner’s home space. Its steel structure has a white tile finish that gleams in light (which is probably the inspiration for the house’s name) and the molding forms the spaces of the structure. There is a music room, lounge, bedroom, and basement and the top floor includes a kitchen along with a swimming pool that looks beautiful at twilight and sunset.

 

 

 

 

 

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Rokushomaki House by Ryoko & Keisuke Masuda

via mocoloco.com

I love the house, I love the colours in the photo – what’s not to like?

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The End of Driving: Mike and Maaike introduce the Autonomobile – Core77

via core77.com

“Each day we are required to maneuver a heavy object through complex traffic and pedestrians, all the while trying to obey hundreds of obscure traffic laws in constant fear of sudden brake lights ahead, of making a wrong turn, of unpredictable drivers and police.”

What if we redesigned the car, focusing on todays needs rather than just styling and performance? What if we thought of cars more as architecture than vehicle. How might that turn out?

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shipping container homes by container city

Shipping Container Homes by Container City

anatomy of a bristol street

Met up again with Barb Drummond again yesterday. She’s a historian and has written several books on Bristol’s history. She is trying to get a book together about the history of several important streets in Bristol, looking at them from the street level and remarking on what has happened to each building, what has changed, what has stayed the same. I will probably be doing the illustration work for this. We hope to get a long flat drawing of each road showing the fronts of the buildings. No perspective, just the front section. With details about each building, and possibly images of what was there before. No, I dont have a time machine, but Barb is a good researcher! She was telling me about all the myths that surround Bristol’s history, and how she has managed to piece together the truth about what really happened. Even through my (recovering) bad cold and flu, she managed to paint a vivid picture of King Street as it would have appeared 200 years ago.  Everywhere you look or point in Bristol, she knows about. Fantastic stuff, and the image in my mind of a full size balloon being inflated in the Cooper’s Hall (later the Theatre Royal or now better know as Bristol Old Vic ) will stay with me for while. More in the book!

shipping container homes

MAKE: Blog: Used shipping containers as homes

Following on from the store made of containers article a few days ago, here’s an idea for houses made of containers. I think its important that these large lumps of steel are re-used, and I suspect they probably always have been in some form or another. The industrial look was popular a while back, and with the right treatment could be acceptable again. As a solution for low cost housing its a great idea as long as the insulation issues are sorted ot.

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store made of containers

Via We Make Money Not Art

This 26 meter concept store was created in Zurich from 17 rusty freight containers. Freitag make bags out of recycled materials, such as used lorry (truck) tarpaulins, car seat belts, bicycle inner tubes etc. and wanted a store that reflected that re-use ethos. Despite being made from such an apparently uninviting material, the inside looks fairly bright due to the good use of glass. The shop is also fairly well insulated to make sure it doesnt get chilly on those Swiss winter days. The place is expected to have a life-span of about 5 years or so. Expect a run-down of their bag products fairly soon.

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