David Pelaez

Over the past few weeks we have seen a massive popularity spike in “small space” architecture and design. It seems that design and architecture firms are starting to really think outside the box, creating projects that are targeted toward the minimalist consumer.

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The beautiful project to come across our desks is this beautiful Hus-1 Residence. The tiny dwelling is just 270 square feet and was both built and designed by the Swedish architect Torsten Ottesjö. The entire objective of the home was to create something that was far away from an urban environment in an attempt to provide an optimal living environment.

”Hus 1 regularly houses two people all year round but visiting friends always have room. Kitchen, sleeping quarters, dinner table, hallway and other functions are well integrated on just 25 square metres of living space.”

nestled in between two mountains, MA house features three pavilions that are unified by a roof and the circulation planned around its perimeter.

The post cadaval & solà morales use stone to construct angular house in rural mexico appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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20+ Of The Best Signs From Muslim Ban Protests

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Greaves B. Henriksen/Caters News Agency

The crow tirelessly circles the bird of prey and repeatedly lands on his head – much to the crows displeasure. The encounter was spotted by Greaves Henriksen in Tamilnadu, India. The 52-year-old amateur photographer believes the eagle was sitting close to a nest, which the crow was trying to defend. Here: A crow lands on the eagles head much to the eagles displeasure.

Greaves B. Henriksen/Caters News Agency

Greaves B. Henriksen/Caters News Agency

Greaves B. Henriksen/Caters News Agency

Greaves B. Henriksen/Caters News Agency

Greaves B. Henriksen/Caters News Agency

Greaves B. Henriksen/Caters News Agency

Situé à côté d’un fleuve, ce cottage a été réalisé par Mizuishi Architects Atelier in Japan. Construite dans un espace minuscule de forme triangulaire, la maison est agencée d’une façon très surprenante, un véritable défi en matière de décoration d’intérieur, qui se révèle parfaitement réussi. A découvrir en images ci-dessous.

the ongoing series offers a rare look at the studios of ma yansong, renzo piano, and david chipperfield.

The post marc goodwin photographs the workplaces of architecture’s biggest firms appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

Cliff collapses in Hawaii, causing a firehose of lava.

Le livre « A Russian Journal », publié en 1948 par The Viking Press, rend compte du voyage de John Steinbeck, écrivain, et Robert Capa, photo-journaliste, en URSS pendant l’année 1947.

Un reportage incroyablement vrai et percutant ayant comme intention d’illustrer la vie dans l’Union Soviétique sous Staline, pendant les premières années de la Guerre Froide. Un document historique de valeur inestimable.

Location : USSR. Ukraine. Kiev / Date : 1947

Location : USSR. Moscow / Date : 1947

Location : USSR / Date : 1947 / Title : Statues of Stalin with Lenin.

Location : USSR. Ukraine, Kiev / Date : 1947

Location : USSR. Ukraine, Kiev / Date : 1947

Location : USSR. Ukraine, Kiev / Date : 1947

Location : USSR. Ukraine / Date : 1947 / Title : Shevchenko collective farm

Location : Ukraine / Date : August, 1947 / Title : Families of a collective farm seated for a meal.

Location : USSR. Ukraine, Kiev / Date : 1947 / Title : Destroyed monastery on cliffs above Dnieper river

Location : USSR. Moscow / Title : Gum department store

Location : USSR. Ukraine / Date : 1947 / Title : Reaping wheat on Shevchenko collective farm

Location : USSR / Date : 1947 / Title : Moscow’s Red Square with the Church of St Basil in the background

Location : USSR. Ukraine, Kiev / Date : 1947

Location : USSR. Ukraine / Date : 1947 / Title : Reaping wheat on Shevchenko collective farm.

Location : USSR. Moscow / Date : 1947

Location : USSR. Moscow / Date : 1947

Location : USSR. Moscow / Date : September 1947.

Location : USSR. Stalingrad / Date : 1947 / Title : Women walking in a deserted landscape.

Location : USSR. Stalingrad / Date : 1947

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The Middle Landscape by David Bernstein

In the words of the artist David Bernstein:

There is an image I like to show my environmental history classes at the beginning of every semester. It acts as a sort of litmus test to gage their existing attitudes towards the subject matter we will be spending the next fifteen weeks examining: human beings interaction with the natural world. George Innes’ 1856 painting The Lackawanna Valley depicts a pastoral scene with a lone figure lounging in the foreground, gazing at a relatively innocuous roundhouse and railroad in the middle distance.  The harmlessness of the railroad is put into question, however, by a stand of trees that have been reduced to stumps, one assumes, to provide material for the railroad.  Whether the students see sublimity, nostalgia, pro-industrial boosterism or a lament for destroyed nature tells me a lot about where we are beginning our journey.

In 1964, cultural historian Leo Marx famously described the artistic depiction of the tension between the pastoral ideal and technological innovation as “the middle landscape.”  In Marx’s definition, the middle landscape was a “new, distinctly American, post-romantic, post-romantic , industrial version of the pastoral design.” This series builds on Marx’s assessment and pushes it to its extreme. Capturing graphic and clean scenes, often of what might be considered the natural word, I create a calm space for the viewer enter. Yet by placing the focal point—sometimes banal, other times more sinister—in both the middle of the scene and in the middle distance, I ask the viewer to take up the place of the lounging figure in Innes’ painting and contemplate the object’s relationship to its surroundings.

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Take a piece of my world

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The misty of Borobudur “the history never end” … 

Daniel Tjongari was born in Surabaya, Indonesia, on January 8, 1977. For Daniel photography is about imagination, emotion and trying to put a little of your soul into every picture you take. It really doesn’t matter what gear you have. He always imagine what I want to say in each of the pictures. Creating a real picture becomes unreal in his camera this is what he love about photography.

Borobudur, or Barabudur, is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist Temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument consists of nine stacked platforms, six square and three circular, topped by a central dome. The temple is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The central dome is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues, each seated inside a perforated stupa. It is the world’s largest Buddhist temple, as well as one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world.

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2,000m above sea level is this protruding mountain hut where inside, the interior has been divided into three 'branches' to frame distinct views of the snowy landscape.

The post peter pichler completes wood-wrapped mountain restaurant in the italian alps appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Void Juice®

La Toa Mata Band de Joseph Acitos es la primera banda robótica de Lego controlada por un sistema Arduino Uno y conectada a un secuenciador MIDI.

Y ahora, sin más dilación, con todos ustedes, Toa Mata Band versionando "We are the robots" de Kraftwerk.

Bonus track: Everything Counts de Depeche Mode.

Via Nerdcore.de

For the first time I can watch planets orbit another star. (129 light years away in constellation Pegasus)
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/a-four-planet-system-in-orbit-directly-imaged-and-remarkable/

Atentos a esta esta espeluznante (y surrealista) escena urbano-campestre.

No sabemos si es real, si es un montaje o si, como algunas mentes lúcidas apuntan, se trata de una pieza genial de arte callejero.

Si se trata de ésto último, desconocemos cualquier detalle respecto a su origen y localización. Solo sabemos que lo hemos visto en los twitters del @CamaradaBakunin y de @suddiraval.

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themotherfuckingmarchesa:

overshareanonymous:

charman-ders:

13 years of school and im still not sure if its “grey” or “gray”

It’s grEy in England and grAy in America.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME I’VE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH THIS SINCE I WAS A FETUS AND IT’S LITERALLY THAT EASY?????

WHAT ABOUT CANADA.

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WHAT ABOUT AUSTRALIA…?

grG’DAYMATEy

Fred is good people. (via nidenikolev)

Le graphiste new-yorkais Leland Foster nous emmène dans un univers où les scènes picturales prennent vie subtilement. Un condensé de son travail est à découvrir sous la forme de gifs dans la suite de l’article, entre ambiances nocturnes dignes d’un polar et moments de la vie quotidienne, avec un fort intérêt pour les lumières.

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Cate Gary

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Languages of Europe

A video posted by Jackie 🇨🇺❤️ (@jackie_ohhhhh) on Jan 18, 2017 at 5:24am PST

Perfect superhero landing.

archatlas:

Emilio Ambasz

While many of the pioneers of green architecture could arguably be criticized as technocratic and dry, this has never applied to Emilio Ambasz. His concept of “green over gray” has been pushing the debate around sustainability forwards since the 1970s, but alongside this concept he has developed a critical approach to architectural meaning and form-making which competes with many of architecture’s more poetic practitioners. Ahead Vladimir Belogolovsky’s upcoming exhibition of Ambasz’s work, “Emilio Ambasz: Architecture Toward Nature,” which is on show at the Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Center from February 6th – 28th, Belogolovsky shares his interview with the architect in ArchDaily’s “City of Ideas” column.

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Gazing up, the first thing you notice when viewing the 33-foot tall cabin, The 7th Room, is its base, an aluminum covering featuring black and white images of the pine trees that surround the structure. Used as camouflage, this exterior panel immerses the treetop cabin into its environment, blurring the boundaries between the building and forest. Designed by architecture firm Snøhetta, the structure is also intended to bring visitors closer to nature, built with a suspended net at its center, and several floor-to-ceiling windows that allow for multiple viewpoints of the Aurora Borealis overhead.

The 7th Room is one of seven cabins available through northern Sweden’s Treehotel. You can view the other six cabins that compose the alternative hotel, like The Mirror Cube, on their website. (via Designboom)

So the inauguration was on Friday, and there’s been some disagreement about how many people showed up to the event. It turns out, as one might expect, counting thousands of people moving in and out of a space without some kind of counting mechanism like turnstiles is tricky. The New York Times provides a bit of background.

Tags: counting, estimation

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I’m loving these protest pups!

Best thing I’ve seen today 😍