Phill designed by Nuca Studio

This white elephant is a part of Phill Playground & Restaurant, a newly designed space by Nuca Studio in Bucharest.

(via dezeen, photograph by Cosmin Dragomir)

perfectly spooky, beautiful LEGO Victorian style mansion

With 100,000 unaltered LEGO pieces, Mike Doyle constructs the striking black & white Victorian on Mud Heap. This is the third architectural home in Doyle’s Abandoned Houses series.

The artist shares fascinating “The Making Of…”  and “Work in Progress” posts on his blog which highlight the meticulous craft involved in building the structures.

The first three LEGO MOCs in the series are available as limited-edition glicée prints through Bumble and Bramble, including Three Story Victorian with Tree and Two Story with Basement

(first discovered via Brothers Brick)

“Six-Story Vertical Garden Sprouts in San Vicente Town Square” designed by architect Jose Maria Chofre

(via Inhabitat, via Urbanarbolismo)

OMA exhibition: (im)pure, (in)formal, (un)built at école des beaux-arts in Paris

“…Made in collaboration with students at the Paris Malaquais School of Architecture, the exhibition focuses on three French libraries designed by OMA, two of them unrealized but crucially important in the development of the typology of libraries, one about to go under construction…” —OMA

(first discovered via design boom, photos by Clement Guillaume)

 book shelves up to the ceiling, my dream house…

“Shelf-Pod is a private residence and study building, located in Osaka prefecture, Japan. The client owns an extensive collection of books on the subject of Islamic history, so he requested that we create this building with the maximum capacity for its storage and exhibition…” —Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio

(via Core 77)

‘Alphabet building’ concept for Amsterdam designed by MVRDV architects

(via design boom)

Where books go to heaven…

The interior design of the Livraria da Vila bookstore in São Paulo, Brazil, was designed by the architect, Isay Weinfeld. From the ceiling to the street facing windows, to the doors created out of bookshelves, one is incapsulated with 360 degree view of books on the shelf. This is such creative use of space and displaying books that it seems as though each room has a different ambiance.

(via Toxel, via ArchDaily, underground floor photo by Leonaro Finotti)

modern architecture 101 from The AllNighter

a look at the gorgeous renovation for Urban Outfitters HQ

“…In 2004, the company bought four buildings and leased a fifth in Philadelphia’s abandoned Navy Yards for literally $1 and now, after a massive renovation lead by Minneapolis-based Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, historic renovation experts, the dilapidated old buildings have been magically transformed into inspiring, creative and light filled work spaces fit to house all of the Urban Outfitters brands on one campus…”
—Inhabitat

“Nashville Musician Shingles His Roof With Records”
(Matt Glassmeyer’s recycled porch first discovered via TreeHugger)

photos of Vysota 239, a “Tour to An Extraordinary Workshop”
(first discovered via English Russia)

nice rows of color in a Shanghai supermarket, Lotus Fresh,
designed by Head Architecture (via dezeen)

The World Trade Center c. 1973
(photograph by Wil Blanche, via The U.S. National Archives)

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