All our love goes to the families in Japan, that are in shelters and struggle for everyday survival. Our hearths are with those who lost friends and family members. We will always look back at Japan as a warning to the rest of us, that mother nature is violent and has no respect, as we have no respect for her.
Category Archives: Architecture
Cement Factory in Barcelona by Ricardo Bofill
In ’73 Ricardo Bofill bought and turned this abandoned cement factory in Barcelona into an architectural marvel. I love how this building has turned out and how he has successfully partnered urban and natural elements.
Architect: Ricardo Bofill
Program: Architectural offices /archives /model laboratory /exhibition space /Bofill’s-apartment /guest rooms /gardens
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Total floor area: 3,100 square meters and gardens
House area: 500 square meters
Date Completed: 1975
Head over to Yatzer to see more about the project.
Made by Originals – Memmo Baleeira, Sagres
Just spent 30 days in Costa Rica, both the Caribbean Cost and the Pacific Coast. Loved the atmosphere the people and water. It’s a shame that it’s a 30 hour trip for me.
I’ve just stumbled over this film made by Ross Mclennan & Marty Schenk. It’s about Memmo Baleeira in Sagres, Portugal. Part of the global network over at www.designhotels.com Makes me so badly wanna go there and surf and hang out with wonderful friends.
Daily Architecture: Snæfellsstofa
In the eastern parts of the national park that surrounds the glacier Vatnajökull on Iceland we find this place, Snæfellsstofa, a visitors auditorium for those who want to experience and enjoy the astonishing nature that surrounds one of Europe’s largest glaciers.
We’ll some of you might already know that we love concrete here at WASF, this is not an exception. The building has a beautiful stretched x-shape and is drawn by Icelandic architect firm Arkís.
So next year, why not plan a trip to Iceland and Vatnajökull, it’s vast 8100 km² stretches over 8% of the land.
Location: Skriðuklaustur, Island
Building: Besökscentrum
Built: 2010
Architects: Arkís
Daily dose: Inspiration. One for each week 2010
Lets sum the year 2010… Fixies, Beautiful mixed interior, Girls, Art, Photos, Videos, Amazing new artist, and YOU, the readers. We are not doing a lot with the site at the moment. We are still glad to see the numbers grow, we now have a weekly reach around 12.000 unique visitors. Last month you guys represented well over 150 countries and 1300 cites… When i first started to write and share… lets be honest, most sharing others great work with you I never thought I was going to reach 12.000 creatives each week… and not the wide range either.
We will be away for a month… planning on change, and new things for the site, we want to keep it simple, but as all companies we want to grow, be able to share more great things and maybe we can inspire others to be more than good, to be exceptional, aim for perfection. Thats something we haven’t done in a long time here. We are kind of in a loop… A loop where we just continue to share, kind of in Limbo.
So today I give you the year 2010 in 52 picked photos. And hopefully next year, in the beginning of december things will look a lot different, and more focused on YOU without just YOU and YOU this site is nothing, I want to share because i know people read and flick thru the photos, videos and music that we share.
Daily video: MI4, On top of Burj Kahlifa, INSANE Footage…
INFLUENCERS @ R+I creative – made SuperFamous
This is so awesome, i’ve been listening and I can just say that it’s amazing, Culture, Brands, Trends, INFLUENCERS…
www.influencersfilm.com – You must also pay a visit to their site, beautiful job R+I creative, simple beautiful.
Via: Magnus at thecubetheory.com
Kendle Design Collaborative: Desert Wing
One word…. unreal…
William O’Brien Jr Allandale House: A Cabin of Curiosities
QUOTED…
Mountain West – 2010
Allandale House is an A-frame(s) house for an idiosyncratic connoisseur and her family. Along with its occupants, the Allandale House also provides space for an eccentric collection of artifacts that resist straightforward classification. Wines, rare books, stuffed birds and an elk mount are among the relics on display in this small vacation house.
The house links three horizontal extrusions of “leaning,” or asymmetrical A-frames. The skinny A-frame on the western side contains the library, wine cellar and garage. The wide A-frame in the center of the house is dedicated to two floors of bedrooms and bathrooms. The medium A-frame on the eastern side consists of living, kitchen and dining areas. The house aims to undermine the seeming limitations of a triangular section by augmenting and revealing the extreme proportion in the vertical direction, and utilizing the acutely angled corners meeting the floor as moments for thickened walls, telescopic apertures and built-in storage.
Via. thecubetheory.com
Aidlin Darling Design: Ocean Beach Residence
