arkiiv:

HERZOG AND DE MEURON

ONE PARK DRIVE

finn-wilkie:

Fumihiko Sano, Moya Moya House, Tokyo, 2014

www.fumihikosano.jp/

archatlas:

Remarkable Japanese Timber Structures

• House of Japanese Cedar by Suga Shotaro / Suga Atelier 
  
• Center Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban Architects Europe
  
• Kitazawa Kenchiku Factor by Fumiko Misawa + Masahiro Inayama
  
• Sea-Folk Museum by Naito Architect & Associates
  
• Church Sun-pu by Taira Nishizawa
  
• Sumika Pavilion by Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects
  
• Final Wooden House by Sou Fujimoto Architects
  
• Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum by Kengo Kuma and Associates 
  
• Woods Of Net by Takaharu + Yui Tezuka / Tezuka Architects 
  
• Mokuzai Kaikan by Tomohiko Yamanashi / Nikken Sekkei + Takeyuki Katsuya / NSD    
  

(via archatlas)

design-is-fine:

Kichizaemon VII, Chônyû (1714-1770), tea bowl / chawan. With a splendid kintsugi technique. Japan. Via André Kirbach Gallery

A celebration of damage. Kintsugi is the art of mending broken pottery, based on Zen Buddhism and “wabi-sabi“, a spiritual awareness of beauty. The golden joinery illuminates the imperfection, underlines the “scars” and resurrects the life cycle of the object. The repair endows the old artifact with a new design, even more refined as the original.

The master craft kintsugi is around 500 years old. The craftsmen used laquer resin (milk from a tree) and mixed it often with powdered gold, silver or platinum. Once applied it is durable and food safe.

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design-is-fine:

Anger of the Lion (Shishi-Ikari), No. 22, ca. 1910. Print. Japan. Via Cooper Hewitt

germanpostwarmodern:

The foyer of the remodeled “Großes Schauspielhaus” (1918-19) in Berlin, Germany, by Hans Poelzig.

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toupeiraamarela:

Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center . Sinthian . Senegal . Toshiko Mori

www.tmarch.com

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kazu721010:

The South Yard / Advanced Architecture Lab

subtilitas:

Fiechter & Salzmann Architekten - Schoolhouse, Hünenberg 2016. Photos © Andreas Buschmann, Lucas Peters.

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omfgco:

Peter Zimmermann flooded the Freiburg museum with glossy pools of resin.

“The museum’s floor becomes a canvas for colorful and glossy pools of resin that cover nearly 425 square meters, weaving through the rooms as abstract, fluid shapes. visitors are invited to participate and activate the work by simply sitting, standing or walking through the vast and dreamy expanse. the spacial relationship between the epoxy floor piece and a new series of oil paintings — shown for the first time in this grouping — forms the centerpiece of the show.”

(Source: http://www.designboom.com/art/peter-zimmermann-school-of-freiburg-stadtische-museen-germany-04-20-2016/)

subtilitas:

Junpei Nousaku - House in Newtown, Kanagawa 2014. Via, 2,  photos © Shinkenchiku-sha & the architect. 

(via subtilitas)

fyp-science:

NASA  is not only only for its adventurous space journeys and groundbreaking scientific research, but having one of the largest open access to content for people. This time, partnering up with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) they have released 3 million images which is a thermal map emissions of 99% of the surface of the earth.

Keep reading

(via fyp-science)

archaicwonder:

Medieval Gold Ring with Clasped Hands and Sapphire, 14th Century AD

archatlas:

Pools Stephan Zirwes

campsis:

Don Brown - Yoko X. Sitting (back)

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