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November 7, 2009

Plastic Moon

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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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November 7, 2009

Visual Acoustics: The Modernism Of Julius Shulman

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November 6, 2009

Rokushomaki House by Ryoko & Keisuke Masuda

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I love the house, I love the colours in the photo - what's not to like?

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October 3, 2009

Colourful Sport and Leisure Centre

I am loving this in ArchDaily. It is a sports and Leisure Centre in Saint-Cloud, France, that is not afraid to wear it's colours on it's sleeve, or anywhere in fact. This building uses colour boldly and everywhere, with a wide palette ranging from red to green, by way of yellow, pink and orange. These colours cover the façade in wide stripes. Inside, the same colours are systematically repeated, like stepping in an oversized graffiti.

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September 30, 2009

RojoOut Urban Stage São Paulo

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After São Paulo city officials ordered graffiti cleanup crews to leave work by Os Gemeos and other famous São Paulo street artists alone, art collective and magazine Rojo asked the city's Urban Development Department to allow them to tap artists like Tofer and MWM Graphics to help spice up drab concrete structures across the city. "It was the first time they've allowed it," says Zagg Guimaraes, Rojo's associate director in Brazil. "We're trying to make the city more beautiful." Dubbing the operation RojoOut , the public art exhibit continues a similar three-year project in Barcelona that they started in 2006.

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September 17, 2009

eOffice: The Alternative Workspace

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eOffice offers a global range of serviced offices, meeting and video conferencing rooms, as well as virtual office services. They also have a rather intriguing blog which indicates some genuine creative thinking rather than parroting a PR line. Above, the “Bruggenhoofd Chabot” shedlike atmosphere landing craft which visitors use to get from street level into the garden of the Chabot museum in Rotterdam.

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September 8, 2009

House Uc, Tokyo

Via +Mood

House Uc by Japan-based Miyahara Architect Office is a private house located in residential area of Tokyo standing on a small and narrow site of irregular shape. Another one of my beloved Tokyo houses built on small or irregular plots of land.

Built for a couple in their 30's and their daughter, it is located in a quiet residential area of Tokyo. The concrete exterior of the building is painted with acrylic paint, allowed in areas to soak in and in others to sit on the surface, giving a mottled effect.

More info at +mood.com

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September 7, 2009

Soumaya Museum

Via ArchDaily

Designed by LAR + Fernando Romero, the Soumaya Museum, slated for completion in 2010, will house a diverse collection of international painting, sculpture, and object art from the 14th century to the present, including the world’s second largest collection of Rodin sculptures. Conceived as a sculpture, the museum’s amorphous form will be a contemporary icon for Mexico City that is also a functional curatorial space.

Constructed with steel columns of varying diameters, the structure provides a non-linear circulation route taking viewers past the nearly 20,000 square meters of exhibition space. The façade is made from translucent concrete that filters light, making the spaces feel light and open, without sacrificing the material’s structural integrity.

It’s always nice to see stuff that isn’t just another square glass and steel box. More info as always at ArchDaily

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September 4, 2009

B20 / PK Arkitektar

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The brief required the construction of a single family house on a site within a "saturated" residential quarter in the outskirts of Reykjavik. The area is located on the Arnarnes peninsula of Gardabaer a town of 8,000 inhabitants some 10 km from the capital Reykjavik.

Structural system is reinforced concrete walls and slabs. Main materials are plastered exterior walls with inlays of Icelandic Líparít stone stripes (Red Ryolite) and reflective glass in aluminum construction. Roof construction is flat concrete slabs insulated on the outside and covered with gravel.

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September 3, 2009

China Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo 2010 | ArchDaily

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The Chinese Pavillion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is already in construction. Being the country that hosts the World Expo, the pavillion designed by Chinese architect He Jingtang stands in the central location of the Expo site at 63 meters tall, which triple the height of any other pavilion.

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