https://youtu.be/AGmPEVwqDVk
“If you are a moon and you don’t have a mirror, so you have to, if you want to see your face, you got to have a little look in the rivers.
The Moon
June 15, 2011
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Kinoka no Ie or “Wood-flavoured house” – alternative ecological housing in Tokyo
June 11, 2011
Via Monocle. Thanks to Wilson Tang for pointing this out.
Twenty-nine Japanese families have found their version of happiness by creating their own idyll in a Tokyo suburb.
Green roof near Vancouver’s port
June 8, 2011
The green roof at the Blueberry Building, in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood. These plantings grew in one year, mostly self-planted by the wind. The group (Eclipse Awards) planted the sedum and a few other things, but the garden augmented itself naturally.
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architecture,
British Columbia,
Canadian design,
landscaping,
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35th birthday of the UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver
May 31, 2011
Happy Birthday, Habitat!
Today marks Habitat’s 35th birthday. The UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements took place in Vancouver from May 31- June 11, 1976. This anniversary also just happens to coincide with Vancouver’s 125th birthday in April 2011.
Tags:
Bill Reid
demolition
forgetting
Habitat 76
Habitat Forum
habitat76.ca
The Vancouver Declaration
UN Habitat
UN Habitat Conference on Human Settlements
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Russia looks at Canada
May 30, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE8JaXH0qiw
From my mother.
Real estate speculation: high home purchase and rental prices in Vancouver & beyond
May 26, 2011
Photo of Vancouver by Colleen Hardwick
Vancouver is in the throes of a real estate gold rush. While Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and China have passed legal deterrents such as property speculation taxes on second homes, Vancouver (and all of British Columbia) have not.
Spaceship condo
May 25, 2011
Spaceship condominium in Guilford, Connecticut, designed by Wil Armster. We need to see more buildings like this, especially in Vancouver, to break up the endless architectural monotony not to mention mediocrity.
Tags:
60s
70s
condominium
expressive modernism
futurism
futuristic
round
spaceship condo
surrealism
Vancouver
why are things so boring now?
Wil Armster
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Citroen Kar-a-Sutra
Living room on wheels designed by Italian designer Mario Bellini in 1972 as a collaboration for Citroen and Pirelli. It’s a combination conversation pit/sleeping area. It was introduced to the US later that year in a show at MoMA – Italy: The New Domestic Landscape.
Lego apartment
May 11, 2011
Via faircompanies.
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architect,
architecture,
design,
DIY,
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furniture,
green,
interiors,
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Colour Barr
May 8, 2011
Folding bar by my friend (and well known Toronto designer) Barr Gilmore. Available from made design. Via moco loco.
The Colour Barr is made of stainless steel, polyurethane enamel, ziricote, glass decanters, tumblers, shot glasses, cocktail shakers and various bar equipment.
