Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center

The  Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center, in Tokyo by architect Kengo Kuma.

photos by guen-k, via spoon  & tamago

storage barn

A workshop and storage facility within a watershed conservancy area, for a landscaping contractor, designed by Gray Organschi architects

via the fox is black

living in a box

Documentary on people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops. Created by TV producer and Internet-video personality Kirsten Dirksen.
More info on the tiny house blog.
Found here. Link to video.

Theseum

Playing springtime tourist in your home town is one of the best ways to waste time…These photos are from my walk into a part of the ancient agora (forum) in Athens, an archaeological park located in the center of the city, after a lunch cancellation last Sunday:}

On a small hill, surrounded by an ornamental garden you’ll find the Temple of Hephaestus, also called the Theseum (450 BC -unknown architect)  made of an exquisite white marble from Mt. Penteli. Far less well-known than its neighbour, the Parthenon, this temple is a perfect place to relax, read and enjoy the “Oh God! Not another f*cking glorious day”

Theseum withstood all ravages of past centuries, from Venetians and Ottoman Turks to “philhellenes”, art collectors or religion fanatics who destroyed most of the “pagan” temples and structures during the Byzantine era.. It’s the best-preserved ancient Greek temple in existence and the only one of which any considerable portion of the upper part remains, as it was in antiquity.

Koban police box

Police station in Kumamoto, Japan designed by the Tokyo based architectural studio Klein Dytham.

via  the fox is black

You may aslo check a fabulous police sign in Chicago here

Rooted treehouse

A private children’s treehouse on an 100y-old oak tree, by Spanish architecture firm Urbanarbolismo

o house

Family house h in Kyoto, Japan, created by Hideyuki Nakayama (previously presented here) for Eizo Okada, editor of influential Tokyo-based design blog dezain.net
The narrow two-storey design features a fully glazed street facade that puts on display the activity of the house.
In order to create privacy while controlling the amount of natural daylight entering the interior, textile designer Akane Moriyama has custom-made a single curtain that hangs from floor to ceiling. During the evening, the slight translucency of the fabric allows the house to glow from inside out.
Check a similar project here.
More details and pics here and here.

Pipe Light

Installation on an abandoned house in São Paulo, Brazil by Triptyque.

The Pipe Light was created from the design of a product that was morphologically similar to a vegetable which invades and takes the parts of a house, as a creeping plant; thus role of a bridge between art and design.

B2 House

This is a beutifull single house in Canakkale in Turkey, beutifull becuase it fits perfectly the landscape without trying to imitate past vernacular forms. The main structure of the house is concrete and the other constructive walls are hand crafted stone.The window framing and aluminum shutters are made of  low maintenance aluminium and  filled with hand crafted reed, enabling natural ventilation and creating great shadow patterns in the interior.

Architect: Mimarlar Tasarim LTD – Istanbul

Via East-CentricArch

The Third & The Seventh

Architecture through cinematographic lens.

The visual fusion between the third and the seventh art.

The Third & The Seventh – video by Alex Roman

More at Alex Roman vimeo and facebook page.

Malpica Harbour

The redevelopment project of Malpica Port, La Coruña, Spain by CREUSeCARRASCO architects (Juan Creus, Covadonga Carrasco)

via arch daily

deBrick

Bricks w/various chromatic and opacity qualities, made from non-recyclable debris, recycled PET, dust, silicone leaves and purple bacteria. The selected phototrophic bacteria can also produce energy through photosynthesis. A project on the reuse of building materials created by Tzeny Gorantonaki, John Apostolopoulos, Anna Neratzouli and Ioanna Thanou, architecture students @ Technical University of Crete.  Find more here.

via the value of garbage

1000 doors

A public art installation made from more than 1000 reused doors by South Korean artist Choi Jeong-Hwa

via colossal

The London Prism

37.2 architects‘ proposal  for the “Room for London” competition- a project on the creation of a temporary hotel room that will sit on top of the Queen Elizabeth hall roof for the Olympic year of 2012.

Coated building

Date unknown

Overstocked with a large supply of men’s spring and winter coats, a clothier in Copenhagen, Denmark, adopted a unique sales scheme. He erected a scaffolding around his store building and completely covered it from roof to sidewalk with more than a thousand overcoats. The novel display attracted prospective customers in such droves that police were summoned. Although the police ordered the proprietor to remove the display, he succeeded in selling all the overcoats.

via Black and WTF

Pixel

Development Office building (Pixel) in Melbourne, Australia, designed by architectural Studio 505 (read more here)