Good Morning People, I don’t know but I’m playing around with how to show off photos, So here is one Grid based idea I had. I think it’s awesome that you can click on an image and you’ll see it big, Do we like?! Tell me! Wanna know!
Architects: Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Location: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Site area: 177.27 sqm
Building area: 106.33 sqm
Total floor area: 259.72 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Ryota Atarashi & Satoshi Asakawa
This is a house to be built in Tokyo, for a movie producer couple.
This architecture is consisted by combining L-shaped blocks of reinforced concrete and sequential frames of box-shaped engineer-wood. We put bedrooms, film archive and galley in solid concrete part for security, and living room in engineer-wood part for openness. As material that consist an open space that is 6m in height, 5.5m in width, 14m in depth, we choose thin engineer-wood (38mmx287mm).
Main theme for this architecture is to bring out a sense of mass and material, which were denied by modern architecture which pursued “white, flat wall” as a style. We intentionally left the wood grain of mold on the surface of concrete, and choose textured stones and irons.
It goes without saying that a house is a relaxing place. A house like a white-cube, surrounded by flat, white walls everywhere, gives a person very abstract image. But that image could only be sensed when we use intellective part of our brain. The problem is that we’re not all-intellective-creature. For the people like this client, who do enough intellectual labor on a daily basis, white-cube would only bring sense of fatigue. The role of architecture, especially the ones for living, is to soothe the sensory side of people, not to stimulate the intellectual side.
Music video on vimeo.com (embed was disabled)
More and more people are filming “real” music videos on DSLRs I personally use the Canon 7D on a daily basis. I love the video function and use it frequently. What do you boys and girls think?
Just to give a picture of whats going on in Chile. Everyone is on and off about Haiti, Chile needs help to, and there earthquake was far higher graded on the magnitude scale a blasting 8.8 magnitude compared to the 7.0 on Haiti. The photos are from boston.com and we just want to help spread the knowledge of this event. The red cross is helping in Chile to, so if you feel like giving away a buck or two head over to their site. www.redcross.org
All photos are copyrighted by boston.com
French photographer Stéphane Chalmeau shared with us this 200 sqm house designed by Saison-Menu Architectes in a narrow site in Lille, France. It features a wooden first floor that merge with the exterior fence, and brown boxes-like volumes on the second floor, creating a wide terrace on top.
Here at WASF we are stunned, the interior and exterior of this house merge together beautifully. All photos are taken by Stéphane Chalmeau
We’ve had problems with snow, here is some nice inspiration.
So if you haven’t noticed I take loads of photos, and I work in photoshop almost everyday. But I don’t get to play around with photoshop so when I do the result vary. This is my submission for this weeks photo in the group Fabulös & Korthuggen on flickr. Every week we post a new photo, so it’s sort of a 52 week group with a new theme every week. Please visit the group and see the other entries.
This is one good looking business (product) presentation from the sweet guys in silicon valley. One of the investors in Square is the digg co-founder Kevin Rose °. This is impressive, we hope to get our Square account soon.
° = Wikipedia
New day… New ways of experience the web, here is loads of visual inspiration.
This is the new DSLR from Canon, the EOS 550D or Rebel T2i as it’s know as in the US. This is the update on the best selling EOS 500D. And it got some nice new features.
Facts: 18.7 megapixels, 3.7 BPS (full resolution), ISO 100-6400. It records video in 1080p in 24 / 25 / 30 fps or 720p with 50 or 60 fps.
One cool feature is the connection for external stereo microphone and a bonus is the new wider display on the back. The 550D will be available in March and the price is due to 900$ with a kit lens (EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS.).
This got featured on vimeo.com and is a beautiful well composed video filmed with a 65mm Macro lens. It’s in a serie of 2 videos, the other one is “late autumn garden”
Sorry for the inconvenience, but we are right now busy processing some new design. So if the site is out of order or just random, everything is working. If things looks like normal something is terrible wrong.
/WASF™ Crew
