2012-05-31

John Hejduk



the fundamental issue of architecture is,
if it does affect the spirit or doesn´t ,
if it doesn´t affect the spirit, it´s building,
if it affects the spirit, it´s architecture...

via cca
via cooper union
via michaelblackwoodproductions



2012-05-28

Black Barn



This project was built in 1973 during what Stanley Tigerman calls his "Surrealist Phase," a phase in which he sees himself under the influence of John Hedjuk and the possibility of a formal symbolic vocabulary in architecture. The house is covered in black shingles and asphalt.

via andreasangelidakis
via AIC Tigerman

Soundtrack: Earth - Land of Some Other Order



2012-05-18

James Gorst



The refurbishment of an existing stone barn into an artists studio and the linking of the two by a new two storey timber building providing garaging and staff accommodation.

via jamesgorstarchitects

Soundtrack: Malcolm Middleton - Week Off

2012-05-17

Beath Rothen



The house rests like a monolith in the slope. Simple and powerful in its typology. The result of intensive search for the materialization is a masonry with an outer shell made of ribbed cement blocks.

via beatrothen 

Soundtrack: Kunz - Flow

2012-05-16

Bio Towers



Bio-towers in Lauchhammer were used to purify wastewater from the town's coking plant by way of internal trickling filters. These days the structures are used to educate people about the area’s industrial history through guided tours and exhibitions.


Soundtrack: Sleep - Holy Mountain


2012-05-15

LC in Baghdad



via pushpullbar
via youtube

Soundtrack: A Whisper in the Noise - As We Were

2012-05-02

Cube House


photo: Eduard Hueber

In the year 2000 Simon Ungers completed the so-called ‘Cube House’, a vacation home for himself in Ithaca, NY. Widely published, it would never be completed as originally conceived, and was scarcely occupied.

via archphoto

Soundtrack: P·A·L - Wasteland