May All Roads…

…lead to great adventures…Happy New Year!

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Concrete…

…”usbéton” is a contemporary fossil; it contains precious informations from our time. Like an architectural building, a usb stick is about space and storage capacity and like an architectural building, usbéton is made out of concrete.” By Kix Berlin and now avaliable from Ausberlin…

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Divide and Conquer…

Split House, Houses at Sagaponac, Sagaponack, Long Island by K/R Architect, PC

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Over the Weekend…

…let’s swing by the seaside town of Lorne, on Louttit Bay in Victoria, Australia.  We’ll be visiting Ocean House by Rob Mills Architects. Woo hoo!

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Dear Global Warming…

…thank you for the snow in Chicago…much appreciated…

Lovely Buddha…

Lovely Buddha…always brings a sense of serenity and integrity into a space…

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Happy Holidays…

The world’s largest Christmas tree is a lighting illumination that is installed annually on the slopes of Mount Ingino in Gubbio, Italy. It’s over 650-meters (2,130 ft) high and consists of 3000 multi-colored lights, 9 km of electrical cable and a 1.000 m² star on top designed by 200 lights. The electricity is generated by a photovoltaic system.

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Archicutlery…

…wouldn’t you love to serve guests with contemporary flatware by world famous architects?  Which would you choose?  I know my favorite…

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Work Space…

…Going to work at the Shoffice!  Both shed and office by Platform 5 Architects…

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Dear Global Warming…

…you have not answered my request for snowfall…so today I will celebrate white…

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I Want to be a Cowgirl…

…this residential dwelling designed by South African studio Gass is situated in Swellendam at the door-step of the breathtaking mountains and valleys of Langeberg Mountains it’s a view so magnificent that the locals have named it “Gods Window” and we can see why.

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Starlight…

… Starlight is a modest sculptural installation that was installed at Burning Man 2012 and other festivals.  Seven twelve foot diameter plywood stars were placed in the Black Rock desert mapping out the constellation Orion, creating a sense of place and a “heaven on earth” effect.  Starlight was a do it yourself project designed by a few but constructed and funded by many.  The stars were designed to look good day and night and to appeal from great distances in order to draw in the curious.  Repetition, scale and tension are used to combat the overwhelming scale of the Black Rock desert  while getting the most from a budget of roughly $5,000.  Starlight – Erich Remash, Jeremy Berglund, Don Peterson + Chad Ingle…More images at remash.

WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;  When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;  When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;  When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,  How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,  In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,  Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. - Walt Whitman

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March on Washington…

…how many times must we grieve before there is change?  March…

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Time Out…

…we are celebrating emerald green being named Pantone Color of 2013…so we are off to Le Sergent Recruteur Restaurant in Paris, unmistakably designed by Jaime Hayon…His vision blurrs the lines between art, decoration and design bringing back a renaissance in finely-crafted, intricate objects within the context of contemporary design culture.

…and a bit more emerald green to enjoy…

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Afternoon Break…

Casa Urca/Studio Arthur Casas

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