Bosporus Beauty

If I finally make it to Istanbul… I sure wouldn’t mind staying at A’jia. What a beautiful hotel!…

Replace that old barn – the Swiss way

Valerio Olgiati replaced an old barn in the protected centre of the Swiss village Scharans with the Atelierhouse Bardill.  Apparently the local authorities granted the building permit due to the fact that the new building had the exact same volume as the old barn.

There goes another Swiss bureaucracy myth…

via dailyicon…

Ando Underground

My first book on Architecture… which I received by my godfather some… well too long ago, was a book about the work of Tadao Ando. I’ve been a admirer ever since and the Chichu Museum just gave my admiration for his work a big fresh up!

The museum, which is completely submerged was opened by the Fukutake Art Museum Foundation on the island of Naoshima in 2004, housing just eight works by three artists: James Turrell, Walter De Maria and Claude Monet.  The Monet room was built according to the size and dimensions of the Fukatoke family’s five Water Lilies paintings. With white plaster walls and a floor of 700,000 milky white marble cubes, filtered

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Shingle Interior

It must be my nostalgic admiration for east coast wood shingle homes… that make me sit and stare at this interior design for Bruce B./Emmy B. Design Agency created by Ippolito Fleitz Group… out of Stuttgart Germany……

Oh Porto!

Don’t you even dare… claiming to know what to expect upon opening the doors to this portuguese townhouse!

Judging by the outside… doesn’t come close to revealing the¬†absolut masterful renovation by architecture firm¬†spaceworkers, who manage to¬†transform this typical house in the city of Oporto, into a fresh cosmopolitan home, while preserving its identity.

via coolboom…