Like Colour | Polka Dot Pattern Public Space + London Olympics 2012

The Central Park bridge is a Multicoloured rubber deck & cool colour and graphic Intervention  by Heneghan Peng Architects . The colours are inspired by the London 2012 olympic colours and the rubber surface is only temporary but made of recycled running shoes!

More info here + here

Like Space | Turfed Corridor for Play between Rooms

Very cool Idea for a house - splitting in two

with accented play strip in the middle.

Could also be a Pool ?

House : KKC by no.555 in fukushima

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Old Cape Town Station - from the CapeTowner free newspaper

scanned in from The Cape Towner, March 29 2012

Like Graphic | Cover of Architecture South Africa March|Apr Issue 54

LIKE IDEA | TIMBER SCREEN THAT WRAPS SPACES BETWEEN FLOORS

(via)

Like Graphic | Colourful Architectural Plans AJ Cover 28.02.08

People always complain that Architectural Plans are impossible to read.

When I saw this cover I thought, damn pretty candyland, but actually what this colour-usage

does,  is make the plan more legible. Remember those little carpets with roads on that some

boys use to have for playing-cars  - sort of in that line.

Also dig the plain circle dots for trees instead of cad-blocks

(scanned in)

Like Idea | Wood Shutters as Ceiling Boards

I saw this pizzeria on Dezeen yesterday, done in Athens by Greek

Architects K-Studio. Immediately quite fascinated by the wood-shutters

that bend around to form a ceiling

I also think, it reminds me of South African Cape Dutch Architecture, so

even though its Greek design, for me its Afrikaans. I like me some Afrikaans anything

.

(images via Dezeen)

Like Place | The Long Room in the Trinity Library Dublin, Ireland.

The old library building was constructed in the 18th Century. Pictured here

is the Long Room, 65m in length.

(found via Thing I Like)

Apparently this room inspired the appearance 
of the Jedi Archives in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

( damn, i would say exact library with just LED's added  - perhaps

a  future-future update for the library anyway )

images via +  +

and on a slightly different note, One of my favourite

library interiors is Asplund's Stockholm Library's Central Rotunda. 

Darn cool chandelier! 

Like idea | Staring at the Sea ..."Meet me at Seat 14" ,

LaLaport Toyosu Urban Dock, Tokyo by EARTHSCAPE

its quite similar to this I saw in Barcelona ( staring at the sea...)

We should build some in CAPE TOWN!

Like Idea | Ceiling with Circular Suspended Lights - Tomokazu Hayakawa architects - Japan

Designed as a workplace for a graphic design studio in Tokyo Japan

" project integrates a collection of plants in to the makeup of the floor to organically

define space and arrange the desks around "

awesome drawing, they dont say much about the lights, but they are bloody great

via

AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTURE 2011 - CAPE INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS - CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

?WEDNESDAY NIGHT WAS THE CIA AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTURE

IN CAPE TOWN. SEE THE WINNERS HERE ( SCANNED IN THE BROCHURE)

SQUARE-HOUSE-CONCEPCION-AMAZON-TREE-CONTAINER-TREE-CHURCH-FLOWERDOG-FALAFEL

Scanned in from one of the recent editions of the Mark Magazine, really
love this house in Concepcion where Mauricio Pezo + Sofia von Ellrichshausen Live + Work

brilliant isometrics :

And on another note

 I read this quote on Twitter by World Future Society

""The theory on career development: what psychology says about choosing your passion" - Steven Mandzik on the WFS blog: " (link)  ...

I then Google-Imaged' World Future" and came across this image

of a deforested Amazon....eish

What ???

" Deforestation in the Amazon, carried over the last 20 years, is now thrice the size of Italy. " (link)

The Rest of the Images were your usual match-up of SuperGreenMeetSuperMachine

graphics. Pretty Nasty Stuff. Much prefer this photo I found over at Inhabitat

making me excited that the future will be just as much as what we do with the spaces 

inbetween/left-over as by building new super-green-farm-living-towers

Imagine Buildings built with just trees ? I dont see why not ?

Especially buildings generally associated with strong experiential qualities 

A Green Cathedral  / The Netherlands

Perhaps Objects inside the Buidling of Trees should
be constructed of flowers...


?

This is called the FLower Puppy by Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquadt.


Its based on PUPPY by Eero Aarnio (2005), the Rotaional-Moulded Polyethylene
Lime Green Dog produced by Magis

And just because Im a little bit hungry right now, FUTURE FOOD has got some incredible looking stuff, not that
it will be the food of the future, who knows what that might be. (check out this CRAZY banana
I poted on LIKE IDEA once )

This one stood out for the moment

" World's Easiest Falafel & Tzatziki "

Like Photo | Birds Eye Johannesburg + Telkom Tower - Getaway October 2011

Cool foto in this Month's Getaway Magazine of the Telkom Tower

(formerly Hillbrow Tower ) in JHB. 

It is the Tallest Structure in South Africa at 270 metres High.

Like Event | New York City | 21 + 22 OCT | Design Like You Give a Damn : LIVE

" Architecture for Humanity is gearing up for our fall humanitarian design conference in New York City on Oct. 21st and Oct. 22nd. Don't miss this year's Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! - a practitioners' forum of innovative panel discussions and workshops.

The two-day event brings together designers, architects, philanthropists, media and business representatives under one roof to talk about the collective challenges, goals and lessons learned in humanitarian design and how to move the field forward. A Design Open Mic lets emerging and established designers and architects take the stage to present their projects to an audience hungry to soak up new ideas - the 7 minute presentation format for Design Open Mic keeps the pace rapid-fire and engaging. One-on-one workshops with community development experts ensures participants go away with real lessons learned. (via Dwell) "

Itinerary Here

If you dont have the book, I strongly recommend it. Check out a South African entry to generate fresh water -  ' Play Pump' ,  - featured in the book

( an INHABITAT article here)

Also Love this Pallet House by I Beam Design (1999) from the Book

(photo via flickr)

DESIGN LIKE YOU GIVE A DAMN @ AMAZON  /  R340 from KALAHARI

Like Building | House of Monatic, Salt River, Cape Town - Rainy Day. Part 1

Some Highlights of the Building Envelope of The? House Of Monatic in

Salt River, Cape Town. ( Photos taken on a rainy day).

( 364 Victoria Road - Opposite the Fire Station 

Front of the Bulding

The Longitudinal Side Elevation

A Few Details

( photos: renee rossouw cape town 2011)