Newspaper Yarn

I'm always searching for cool and new ways to recycle everyday objects, such as newspapers. I have now found an amazing solution to your stack of NYT: Newspaper Yarn! Greetje van Tiem is now famous for her “Indruk” project (she can purportedly spins 20yds of “yarn” from a sheet of old newspaper).

Newspaper yarn is very versatile and can be used for many things including curtains, rugs, even upholstery! Its strength may be slightly less that of yarn but when spun tightly and woven into something like a mat the newspaper yarn is a durable and functional structure.





So how can YOU make your very own Newspaper yarn? FIND OUT HERE!

Williams Glass Studio

The Williams Glass Studio in Ontario, Canada by gh3.

The central concept of the house is reconceived through a contemporary lens of sustainability, program, site and amenity. The compelling qualities of simple, open spaces; interior and exterior unity and material clarity are transformed to enhance the environmental and programmatic performance of the building, creating architecture of both iconic resonance and innovative context–driven design.

The transparent facade—a curtain wall glazed in low-iron glass—becomes the essential element in a photographic apparatus to produce images unobtainable in a conventional studio. The compact glass form sits at the water’s edge on a granite plinth whose matte black facade dematerializes to suspend the building, lantern-like, on the site. Sliding panes in the glass skin allow the facade to become completely porous for natural ventilation, while an individually automated blind system, white roof, and deciduous hedgerow guard against excessive solar gain.

Entry into the site is facilitated through a minimalist landscape that deploys endogenous materials while leaving the greatest portion of the site in its evocative, glacier-scoured state. Throughout the upper and lower levels, interior partitions are clad with seamless white lacquered panels whose reflective qualities diffuse light into every part of the interior and create complex layered views through the space.

(via archnewhome)

Two Sisters House

This amazing house design is based on reinforced concrete piles, forming covered external spaces. The first floor is a connecting space for entrance zone and the rooms of common use (kitchen, living area, dining) while the second level houses two private living quarters. The way these spaces are connected creates a great individual living environment with maximum isolation and a view to Langstini Lake.

I love the shiny RED (my favorite color) exterior of this house.

Location : Langstini, District of Riga, Latvia

Arcitect : NRJA

Nathan Freise.

Nathan Freise is my new hero. There. I said it.

I have been following Freise's work for the past few years (mostly short films and illustrations) and have always been intrigued at the stuff he has produced....but his most recent exhibition, Unseen Realities, has completely blown me away.

Freise, both architecturally trained and artistically gifted, creates amazing speculative architecture art that combines many different medias and mediums (ink, marker, pencil, paint, collages, mosaics, digital manipulations) into one beautiful dream. I almost feel as if I am in Freise's own imaginary world, and a very futuristic one at that.

V&A pattern

Colors and patterns and textures oh my! It looks Like London's Victoria and Albert Museum has decided to give the public a glimpse of their wonderful pattern archives, published in a set of Volumes known as the V&A Patterns.

These volumes, which come in hardcover I might add, have some amazing people/ideas attached to them including: William Morris, Indian Florals, Digital Pioneers, and The Fifties.

I picked out my favorite prints, patterns, and color combinations below. Enjoy!

P.S. Word on the street is a Secret Garden volume will be released soon!!!!

Infiniski

Infiniski is one of those groups that I would kill to be a part of. They've been on top of the sustainable architecture game for almost a century, and all of their work is so bad ass. Not only are their designs sustainable, they are also modular and versatile, meaning you can change them and add square footage to them as needed. I'll show you my favorite of their designs below.


The Infiniski Manifesto House is by far my favorite of all the houses James & Mau (the founders of Infiniski) have designed. The Manifesto House is only 1720 sq. ft. and is located in Curacavi, Chile. Most of the structure of the house is made from shipping containers, and all materials are either reused or recycled. This amazing house only took 90 days to build, and cost ONLY $118,000!!!!









I want! I want! I want!

Laybourne House

The Laybourne House was built in 1993 in Telluride, CO by Fernau + Hartman. When I first saw this house I could not believe that it was already 17 years old! The main part of the house is divided into two halves, kids on one half and adults on the other. These two sides wrap around a shared exterior hearth, creating an exterior living space.




I love the connection to the land this house has. Everything from the site to the materials are directly tied back to the mountainous location. My favorite feature of the house is the mater bed, which can be rolled outside to a porch overlooking a 2000' canyon below.





Movement through the house reveals the site and surrounding topography, aligning with various close and distant site features. The Art Barn, a lofty space for writing, welding and photography, departs from local Quonset huts by admitting light and allowing views. Its 50-foot lightning rod “tail” protects from frequent lightning strikes.