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Outside of RIO DE JANEIRO, on a beautiful little beach with amazing blue water, sits a little house with a flowering roof that shades and protects like a big tropical banana leaf. Yes a tropical banana leaf. Designed by MAREINES + PATALONO, the open air pad is meant to encourage interaction and connection between man and nature. And if my small soho studio looked like this, I would be all over nature! With verandas and open spaces in between rooms and no corridors, the tropical beach house is an ideal place for social gatherings and parties. The open layout also...
Fading right into the BIG SUR landscape, this three-bedroom house is nearly INVISIBLE when viewed from certain angles. And that’s just how MICKEY MUENNIG, the mastermind behind the project, wanted it. The 74-year old architect kept the environment in mind when he designed the sod roof and seeded it with native grasses and wildflowers. The roof is part of a garden that starts at Cooper Point, Big Sur, and stretches out to the Pacific Ocean. What do you think? Would Bond live here? Read more HERE. HIT FROM: Inhabitat.com...
Artist Henrique Oliveira was a student in São Paulo, Brasil (yes there is more to Brasil than beautiful women) when the plywood fence outside his window began to peel and fade into different layers and colors. In other words he had a busted fence. However, what some might have considered garbage, Henrique saw as tools to create ART!!! “When the fence was dismantled, Oliveira harvested the remains and used them as materials for his senior show. The result propelled him into his current work: undulating, swirling, bulging peels of wood layered onto hallways and walls in daunting forms.” His most recent show...
* From Inhabitat “To cope with the growing need for green urban space, San Francisco-based designer Joanna Borek-Clement has envisioned these eye-popping Sky-Terra skyscrapers – not just a single building, but a network of interconnected towers that are inspired by the shape of neuron cells. This skyscraper superstructure provides a new city layer – one covered in public parks,amphitheaters, fields, and public pools and bathhouses.” Expand your imaginations people. You can create what ever you envision. This is just one medium in which to do so. A dope one at that!...
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