Mount Fuji Architects Studio designed this home office for a couple living in Tokyo, Japan. The residential neighborhood in which the building lives is considered one of the richest in terms of cost. The studio saw this opportunity to confront issues about spacial openness in a dense area full of other buildings very close to one another. Using perforated steel in floral patterns, Mount Fuji Architects modeled the facade after the way a forest lets in sunlight. Imagine waking up to the unique shadows created by the morning sun pouring through the walls. Such a beautiful concept.

via ArchDaily

Here’s a view of the new project by Makoto Tanijiri/Suppose Design Office: a house in Nagoya (Japan) opened to the surrounding environment that will be a flower shop and an art gallery on the lower floor and a private residence on the upper levels

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Ruins in Sorrento. Almost like a scene from Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky.

“Homes at night” // “Houses” serie. See Todd Hido’s web site for more interiors, landscapes & portraits pictures.

A while back, we reported on some city farming, recently we found out that there is much more of a movement than we thought previously.

An excerpt from “It’s Our Thing”

“Today integrated agriculture has been exaggerated and ballooned into something almost nonsensical. Tokyo is leading the way with a 1000m2 underground farm, in a bank vault, under an office building in Otemachi. Other companies are offering ‘Vertically Integrated Greenhouses’, rooftop gardens, and in general creating the possibility of sustainable office environments. It sounds nice. But is this how ecology works? Will nature let us have our fragmented urban lives and natural farming? I really wonder whether the problem goes much deeper than powering your laptop by exercycle, growing a garden on your roof and having a trout farm in the basement. I dont know though, who’s to say a Total Recall kind of future isn’t less meaningful than a life lived in an Amish treehouse

Picture from the interior of Pasona o2, Tokyo’s underground farm.”

While the folks at City Farmer writes about some interesting points too.

I remember the first time I stepped out of the station, and saw this strange futuristic building from the past. Go see it for yourself in person before it’s gone forever.

(via PingMag)

One of the current project of the architect Steven Holl. An historical museum for writer Knut Hamsun including exhibition areas, library, reading room, cafe and 230 seat auditorium in Hamarøy, Norway. The project is in the construction phase. 

Haus-Rucker-Co was an experimental Austrian art/architecture collective founded in Vienna in 1967.

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Ilaria Innocenti works at Studiomorinn. Aelle is a 100% recyclable interior design collection.

Thanks to Giovanna Parisi.

Selgas Cano head office, a Spanish architecture firm based in Madrid.

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