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Going Underground

Interesting pictures of MRT stations around the world...  Singapore makes it in there! Pictured above is a station in Stockholm.

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Talent: Upcoming NYC architect

Need a new train station?

... call this guy... LINK

Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori creates immaculate photographic documents relating to architectural space.  Some mindblowing photos here - they get better and better towards the last galleries.

Link to 12 pages of his work

Link to photographs he took at Chernobyl

Aaron Hojman's house

Now, this is cool. A sunflower garden outside your front door?. Say yes, yes please.
Aaron, who I personally think is a modern day genius, drives 7000km a month scouring Europe for any odd bits and pieces.Doors from old cinemas, windows, furniture..  from  sales or auction. Once when he was 25[bastardo] he spent three months assembling an old barber shop from objects no later than 1930. It was staffed by girls dressed as barbers and played jazz and blues from old radios. n-nice So he sells that to some rich guy from Germany and uses the money to build this place. Modelled on turn of the century railway depots he has assembled it from hundreds of second hand rusty tin sheds. Inside the same but you know very slick, bathrooms  from old government buildings( that probably doesnt sound appealing) and doors from an old cinema he used to frequent.Very acclectic tastes make it a stunning place.Probably should have shown a picture of the inside huh? Located on a 5 hectare farm on the road to San Carlos, Uruguay.

Johnston Marklee & Associates

Contemporary buildings and interiors by Johnston Marklee & Associates, including The Sale House in Venice, CA, and The Hill House in Pacific Palisades

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Beijing Boom Tower

by Neville Mars, Saskia Vendel, and Dai Yang

The 2005 installation Beijing Boom Tower (BBT) presents a model showing 6 hectares of the capital in 2020.  The design of the block underlines the conflicting desires of the modern metropolis: its boom demand for urban space, and its consequent suffocation. BBT is the product of suburban-feel living at 10 times Manhattan density.

5000 duplex apartments are stacked to form an integrated environment. Full-scale parking, retail and amenities systems are laid on. A privacy gradient acknowledges the increasing reality of a competitive housing market seeking privatisation and exclusivity. BBT presents an extreme architecture of networks, bridges, escalators, highways and towers; a continuous system that reunites the segregated Chinese society within one vertical neighbourhood.

The BBT model is the central part of an interactive video-installation. Projectors shoot graphic information against one facade of the tower block, turning its skyscrapers into giant bar diagrams. Mini-cameras capture the inner-world of the structure as they weave through the abstract spaces. These images feed back to a wall of closed-circuit black and white monitors, providing the audience the street level and penthouse perspectives. The spectator feels himself a guard in control of this building, as he chooses which angles to view.   

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Alaskan Igloo

"This large igloo is on the Parks Highway and marks the half-way point between Fairbanks and Anchorage. You may want to purchase gas here!"

From Alaska's Best Homepage.  Though that claim does seem a little far fetched...

Igloos

What's there not to like about Igloos?  OK, apart from the cold?  And the limited space?  And the lack of broadband or toilet facilities?  Hey, they are just like hotels in Italy!  If you want to see some real Igloos, check out The Snow Show. They have some Igloos there made by Tadao Ando, Anish Kapoor (his is red, not sure how, but at least it's not yellow) and your friend and mine, Yoko Ono.

fifties modernist architecture in phoenix

Saw The Incredibles the other night - it was excellent. There's an article about it at designobserver which is pretty spot on. Anyway I fumbled onto Modern Phoenix which is kind of a fansite for 1950s modernist architecture in Texas (who knew?). It seems pretty swanky... I like this pad anyway. By the way my pad is coming along nicely, thanks for asking, with my recent addition of an Eames LaChaise...

LV Home

OK this is cool... I think I'll buy me one and park it up in the Coromandel.