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    bookshelves     architecture     modern     design     homes    
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    Designed by Korean architecture firm Moon Hoon, this Panorama House has a bookshelf staircase with a slide. (via design milk)

    Designed by Korean architecture firm Moon Hoon, this Panorama House has a bookshelf staircase with a slide.

    (via design milk)

    architecture     Alvin Lustig    
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    andrewromano:

    The June Wayne House by Alvin Lustig (1949-1950)

    Today, Alvin Lustig is remembered primarily as a graphic designer. But in the 1940s and 1950s—the peak of his productivity and creativity—his main ambition was to break down the boundaries between two-dimensional and three-dimensional design. He created furniture, lighting fixtures, interiors, signage, a pair of hotels, and even a helicopter.

    He also designed a house—the one pictured above, in the Hollywood Hills, for the artist June Wayne. 

    For 60 years, only one picture of the Wayne House has been known to exist: a black and white image taken by Julius Shulman. 

    But as I was wandering around Flickr last night, I stumbled upon a batch of slide scans that had just been uploaded by Doug Dupin earlier that day. And among them were these images: never-before-seen photographs of the Wayne House. In color. From when it was newly built.

    An amazing find. 

    Doug is in the process of uploading hundreds of other images of California midcentury modernist architecture from a personal collection that he recently rescued. More to come on those photos—and on Lustig’s residential architecture.

    vintage     photography     NYC     design     architecture     fashion    
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    photo of Vera Neumann at “Scarves by Vera” in NYC, dated June 20, 1952 (first discovered via @SllabStudios, via Shorpy)

    photo of Vera Neumann at “Scarves by Vera” in NYC, dated June 20, 1952

    (first discovered via @SllabStudios, via Shorpy)

    NYC     design     illustration     architecture    
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    Windows of New York: A Weekly Illustrated Atlas by Jose Guizar

    Windows of New York: A Weekly Illustrated Atlas by Jose Guizar

    architecture     video     animation    
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    The ABC of Architects

    art     architecture    
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    artruby:

    Leandro Elrich, Window and Ladder-Too Late for Help (2008). 

    architecture     fun     spaces     elephant    
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    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)

    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)

    Lego     Legos     architecture     art     design     homes     unusual     victorian    
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    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)

    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)

    architecture     design     gardens     Spain    
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    “Six-Story Vertical Garden Sprouts in San Vicente Town Square” designed by architect Jose Maria Chofre (via Inhabitat, via Urbanarbolismo)

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

    (via Inhabitat, via Urbanarbolismo)

    Denmark     architecture     design     interiors     travel     video     homes    
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    A design obsessed couple visits the home in Denmark where Danish architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl once lived.

    (larger HD video viewable via Denmark.dk)

    architecture     books     libraries     exhibition     Paris    
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    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)

    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)

    architecture     books     bookshelves     design     spaces     Japan    
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     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)

     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     letters     design     Amsterdam     architecture     buildings     spaces    
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    ‘Alphabet building’ concept for Amsterdam designed by MVRDV architects (via design boom)

    ‘Alphabet building’ concept for Amsterdam designed by MVRDV architects

    (via design boom)

    São Paulo     architecture     books     bookshelves     design     interiors    
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    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)

    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)

    architecture     design     infographics     minimal    
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    modern architecture 101 from The AllNighter

    modern architecture 101 from The AllNighter