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N64 Patent Posters made by Catkuma

Auckland Sky Tower

“Rained for a few days, but the the city absolutely lit up after the skies cleared”. Photo by Jason Rodman.

This picture was taken in the Viaduct, a neighborhood of Auckland, New Zealand (Google Maps).

Graystone Custom Builders,  Newport Beach, CA. Michael Beck photo.

Intersection of a rotating hexacosichoron (600-cell) and a hyperplane.

And with that, I am done

Townhouse renovation. Maletz Design, Brooklyn architects & building designers, NYC.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 28, 1986. All seven crew members are killed. (NASA)

Kansas City Skyline

“December 2014. How I celebrated my Xmas”. Photo by Manu Sharma.

Maki Yamamoto

Maki Yamamoto (@bali_ayu) starts every morning with a photo shoot starring vintage items. This daily ritual is a warmup exercise for the graphic designer from Osaka, Japan, to get her mind geared up for work. “Things that have been worn out with time and damage carry a lot of history and love of the people who used them,” Maki says. Her father, who was a repair worker, inspired her love of antiques. “I have a growing fondness for his old tools and wanted to do something with them,” Maki reflects. Her flat-spread arrangements of worn utensils and aged keepsakes restore life into items which once served their owners well. “I’d be happy if people find something interesting in any of these objects, and feel good about that moment of discovery.”

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Rome David Pinto

A small sampling of the images you will find on David Pinto’s tumblr. In his words, he is not a photographer, just a dreamer. This photoset focuses on photographs his home city: Rome, one of the most architecturally significant cities in history.

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Perhaps I’ll never understand how two delicate tiny hands could ever hold my heart safely within and yet they do and yet you do

And Yet (via mikefrawley)

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Dissolving Into You

I am laying here , imagining the warmth of our bodies entwined . You say ‘stop crying ’, as you kiss a tear. I’ve missed you so much I say, ‘I’ve really missed you.‘You pull me closer. You say, ‘I’m here, 'then you evaporate. We both disappear .

House in Capilla del Monte Marchisio Nanzer

James Gilleard

GG House Elías Rizo Arquitectos 

Rishad Daroowala

A small sampling of the images from the Pacific Northwest you will find on  Rishad Daroowala’s tumblr including architecture, landscapes and the occasional bison!

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Lower Manhattan

“The southernmost part of Manhattan, Seen from 1 World Trade Center”. Photo by Artem.

This picture was taken in Battery Park City, a neighborhood of New York, United States (Google Maps).

‘Low Country tree house.’ Wayne Windham Architect, Johns Island, SC.

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We don’t think enough about staircases. Nothing was more beautiful in old houses than the staircases.                         Nothing is uglier, colder, more hostile, meaner, in today’s apartment buildings. We should learn to live more on staircases. But how?

Georges Perec, Espèces d'espaces, 1974

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Something More

Every star ignited in every universe yes maybe even eternity might die in thinking it couldn’t happen to me I’d be rather pretentious wouldn’t I and yet today I’ll be happy anyway  I cannot fret about what lies ahead or change a thing that went before and although our bodies will perish I know that we are something more

A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA March 13 – July 4, 2016

A Japanese Constellation focuses on the network of architects and designers that has developed around Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and SANAA. Providing an overview of Ito’s career and his influence as a mentor to a new generation of Japanese architects, the exhibition presents recent works by internationally acclaimed designers, including Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, and Junya Ishigami. Departing from one of Ito’s pivotal works, the Sendai Mediatheque, completed in 2001, as well as SANAA’s 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2004), the 44 featured designs range in scale from small houses to museums. Organized through intersecting spaces separated by translucent curtains, drawings, models, and images reveal the structural invention, non-hierarchical thinking, and novel uses of transparency and lightness that link these practices. Exploring a lineage of influence and cross-pollination that has become particularly relevant at the start of the 21st century, the exhibition highlights the global impact and innovation of contemporary architecture from Japan since the 1990s. With its idea of a network of luminaries at work, A Japanese Constellation is intended as a reflection on the transmission of an architectural sensibility, and suggests an alternative model to what has been commonly described as an individuality-based “star-system” in contemporary architecture.

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#SHANGHAiMAGE Another Night In Shanghai 2015

Photo by 席子.

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Prague | Czech Republic

LM Guest House Desai Chia Architecture

Located on a rolling farm property in upstate New York, the LM Guest House celebrates the beauty of the surrounding landscape– sweeping views through an all-glass facade magnify the spacious, open feel of the living areas.The home employs several sustainable design strategies including geothermal heating and cooling, radiant floors, motorized solar shading, photovoltaic panels, and rainwater harvesting.

The open living and sleeping areas flow around a compact slatted wood core that disguises the mechanical, storage, and bathing spaces. Two sleeping couchettes with built-in bunk beds provide efficient accommodations for additional weekend guests. Natural white oak wood detailing provides warmth and texture throughout the home. The high-performance glass facade was prefabricated off site, shipped in one container, and erected in two days. An innovative steel frame structure allows the roof to cantilever dramatically over the open living areas and bedroom.

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