Villa Le Lac, a small house Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret built for his parents in 1923 on the banks of Lake Geneva in Corseax, Switzerland.
5/11/09
Villa LE LAC - Le Corbusier
Villa Le Lac, a small house Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret built for his parents in 1923 on the banks of Lake Geneva in Corseax, Switzerland.
Andreas Gefeller
Andreas Gefeller added some new photos to his Supervisions series. Photographing the floors of each room of the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf. Each photo is assembled from many single photos, taken from around 2 meters.
5/10/09
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5/8/09
Villa Arpel au Centquatre
Reconstitution of the Villa Arpel from the movie "Mon Oncle" by Jacques Tati. Cinematheque Française
May Projects
Chris Corales, Andrea Myers, Matthew Rich, Brion Nuda Rosch, Liz Walsh. Coming up May 22 at Park Life
5/7/09
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5/5/09
Incremental Housing
Architects Filipe Balestra and Sara Göransson have developed a strategy to develop informal slums into permanent urban districts through a process of gradual improvement to existing dwellings instead of demolition and rebuilding. More... Dezeen
Hermit's Cabin
The cabin is available in two sizes. The original model is about 7,5 m2 and optimally fit up for one person Arvesund
5/4/09
"Alighiero & Boetti: Putting Art in the World"
Breaking with arte povera in the early 1970s, Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti renamed himself Alighiero & Boetti, legally bifurcating his identity to reflect opposing or unresolved aspects of his oeuvre (e.g., the antinomies of order and chaos, West and East, authorial ego and collective processes) as well as his split relationship to the world as an artist
Here's a virtual tour worth a look from the Museum in Napoli Museomadre
Sand Castles
In 1976, Nader Khalili shuttered his Tehran design office, boarded a motorcycle, and—like an architectural Che Guevara—set off on a five-year odyssey, traveling the countryside and studying Iran’s ancient adobe construction techniques.“I was searching for a way to create a building that was totally in harmony with nature, that could be available to everybody around the world". The result, the “superadobe” structure: layers of sandbags set in a circular plan, with a strand of four-point barbed wire between each level to provide stability, and corbeled at the top into a dome-shaped roof. Dwell
Habitat'67 for sale
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cost: C$17,000,000. Habitat'67 began as a master’s thesis project prepared in 1961 by Mr. Safdie, then an architecture student at McGill University. He came up with the idea of a high density apartment building that would provide residents with privacy as well as peace and quiet. He was invited to develop his idea for Expo 67 and did so alongside engineer August E. Komendant. By the time the universal exhibition came round, the project was partially completed, and 26 apartments were reserved for the Expo. Read more
5/3/09
Kyohei Sakaguchi
"Zero Yen House" is a book of homeless housing in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. The publication provides an intriguing examination of the different construction methods and materials used by homeless people. It shows the efficiency and resourcefulness of these structures: a surprising form of temporary architecture.
5/1/09
1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
Legendary 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, the most expensive car and historically significant Ferrari racing cars ever will ve auctioned on May 17, 2009, at RM Maranello auction in association with Sotheby’s. The Ferrari 250 TR is not only one of the most beautiful cars ever built, with its stunning pontoon-fendered bodywork sculpted by Scaglietti, it was also one of the most competitive as well. Ferrari captured ten victories in nineteen races from 1958 to 1961, including a class win at Le Mans with Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien.RMAuctions
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