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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Like Idea | Make your own Plant + Herb Screen

This could be quite easy to make/build if you have a screen frame

( or make it yourself with timber). Use plastic bottles and fill it with small plants

or even herbs.

( Seen at Saloni Satellite Milan 2012 )

(photo from my iphone)

Old Cape Town Station - from the CapeTowner free newspaper

scanned in from The Cape Towner, March 29 2012

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

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(images via Dezeen)

Like Quote | In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. - Aaron Rose

Devil's Peak, Table Mountain - Cape Town South Africa

(photo: renee rossouw cape town 2011)

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 Event + Object : ��Spring: Excellence, Talent and Inspiration in Design��, at Eindhoven��s Designhuis museum, 22 October to 31 December 2011 | Mine Kafon by Massoud Hassani for Design Academy Eindhoven

22 October ? 31 December 2011

" To mark the 10^th anniversary of the Dutch Design Week, Premsela and the Dutch Design Week will host the exhibition ��Spring: Excellence, Talent and Inspiration in Design��, at Eindhoven��s Designhuis museum. The exhibition will illuminate links between designers from different generations and countries. It will feature work by 15 acclaimed Dutch designers who got their start in Eindhoven, like Maarten Baas, Richard Hutten, Jurgen Bey, Piet Hein Eek, Volvo��s Corien Pompe and Ikea��s Monika Mulder, as well as those who��ve influenced them and emerging talents that inspire them. Each acclaimed designer will also choose a promising young designer to share the spotlight.

Maarten Baas chose Massoud Hassani to share the spotlight with him. Massoud Hassani spends his childhood in Afghanistan, where he would make miniature models to be blown by the wind. Sometimes they would end up in a minefield, from where he could not retrieve them. This childhood memory was the inspiration for his graduation project ��Mine Kafon��, for the Design Academy Eindhoven. The ��Mine Kafon�� functions as an anti-landmine device and will roll about detonating any mines in its path, creating safe paths to walk on. ��Every destroyed land mine means a saved life����

In the Spring exhibition, some of Maarten Baas iconic pieces will be shown together with Massoud Hassani��s Mine Kafon."

Like Book | From Torrent to Current: Dam and Man in Savoy via Dwell

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" photographer Celine Clanet documents the infrastructure of hydropower in the Beaufortain region of southeastern France: four dams and ten power plants. Set in the midst of bucolic hillsides and snowcapped peaks, these structural behemoths have had profound impacts on the surrounding terrain. With a documentarian eye, Clanet captures all facets of these dams and power plants?from their monumental exterior scales, to labyrinthine interior spaces, to caretakers?focusing on how infrastructure has merged with the natural and social landscape." 

DWELL ONLINE

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 IDEA | THE UMBRELLAS - CHRISTO + JEANNE-CLAUSE - JAPAN/USE 1984-91

SOME INFO FROM WIKIPEDIA

Christo and Jeanne-Claude prepared for their next project, "The Umbrellas". The plan was to have yellow umbrellas set up in California and blue umbrellas in Japan at the same time. In December 1990, after much preparation, the first steel bases for the umbrellas were installed. At the bases 80 cm long anchors were fastened to the ground to withstand tensions of 1,500 kgf (15 kN). In September 1991 the umbrellas were brought to their places by 2,000 workers. In California, some of the bases were transported to the site by helicopter. The final cost of the project totaled $26 US million. By 7 September, 1,340 blue umbrellas in Ibaraki and 1,760 yellow umbrellas at the Tejon Ranch in southern California had been set up; the exhibition opened on 9 October 1991. In total, 3 million people saw the umbrellas, each measuring 6 meters in height and 8.66 meters in diameter. The umbrellas became a huge tourist attraction, finding use as everything from picnic spots to wedding altars. On 26 October 1991, one of the umbrellas in California was toppled by high winds, killing one woman and injuring several others. The exhibit was ordered closed immediately.^[11]

LIke Idea | 6 Storey Green Wall - Jose Maria Chofre

A Six Storey Tall green Wall by Jose Maria Chofre

for a New Children's Library in Eatsern Spain.

 " The gridded facade creates separate spaces for different types of plants:

small flowers and herbs fill in the top layers of the garden,

while ivy and ferns grow at the bottom. ( more via archdaily) "

  

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LIKE STRUCTURE | ACONCAGUA MOUNTAINS, MENDOZA, ARGENTINA

I WAS? DOING A BIT OF GENERAL NAVIGATION

WHEN I CAME ACROSS THE ACONCAGUA MOUNTAINS IN MENDOZA

ARGENTINA. INCREDIBLE.

AN OLD MOUNTAIN STORE ON THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAINS

FOUND ON FLICKR - By  Giorgiclub

ALSO SOME OTHER GENERAL MOUTH DROPPING ONES:

DAMN !

Like Idea | Books + Stairs = BookShelf

a pretty cheap and innovative idea, as found in South African

magazine House and Leisure ( way back in November 2006 )

is making your own bookshelves via stacking books on your stairs

and buying maybe a nice piece of pine from Timber-city to suspend

over?.

you also dont need to put books on both sides, but

make sure your shelf doesnt topple over. I made

this little retro graphic quickly to demonstrate.

okay sorry, im going really retro graphique now

( yes i know  photoshop but windows paint is so bloody awesome)

Since You are the one controlling + buying the books

you can also

Control The Colour Scheme

okay, hell - really you could

go crazy with this thing.

( parents with babies might be more restricted...)

the end

Like Idea | Circular Wall Cut - Outs

WALLPAPER ONLINE MAG JUST PUBLISHED THEIR

BEST BUSINESS HOTELS 2011?.

THIS SMALL LOBBY SPACE WITH WALL CUT OUTS

IS IN THE HOTEL AMERICANO, NEW YORK

 WOULDNT MIND LYING ON THIS

MATTRESS DREAMING OVER

THE SKYLINE OF NEW YORK EITHER

Like Idea | The Infobox

THE INFOBOX - Scanned in from The Architectural Journal 05-06-08

THE INFOBOX WILL STAND WHILE 720 NEW HOMES ARE BUILT AROUND IT

ITS A TEMPORARY SALES SUITE ( EXPECTED TO STAND FOR 8 YRS ) THAT ACTS AS A BEACON FOR UBRAN SPLASH'S TRIBECA DEVELOPMENT AND ADVERTIZES THAT TRIBECA STANDS FOR QUALITY OF CONCEPT, USE + CONSTRUCTION.

 

WHAT THE DESIGN REQUIRED

- MAIN ENTRANCE TO ENTICE PEOPLE IN

- ENOUGH SPACE TO HOLD MEETINGS

- DISPLAY A LARGE SITE MODEL

- VIEWING AREA THAT ALLOW VISITORS TO WATCH THE BUILDING TAKE SHAPE

(click on images to enlarge)

Like Building | Hans Niehaus Gallery by Norbert Rozendal - Cape Town