Category Archives: Design
Tiny apartment
I would love to have the discipline required to live in a place like this ’11-feet-3-inches wide, by 16-feet-2-inches deep, by 10-feet-4-inches tall’ apartment built by Steve Sauer in Seattle. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2012595209_pacificpnwl22.html I love the effective use of space, the lack of waste, the optimisation and functionality. I must admit I think I’d struggle to maintain [...]
Cabin in British Columbia
Not that I want to live or even sleep in my place (well perhaps the occasional snooze) but I think that this weekend cabin on Gambier Island, British Columbia, Canada is a smasher Small, functional and well designed – three attributes I want for my place of my own… I love the simple, uncensored and [...]
French Medieval castle – built 1998 to 2023+
The construction of the Chateau de Guedelon in Burgundy, France makes me think I’m setting the bar too low in my own aspirations! Started in 1998, the Castle is being built using only tools, materials and techniques that would have been available in the early 13th Century. The walls are being built from sandstone quarried [...]
Luc Schuiten – ‘archiborescence’
You have to admire a man who has invented his own “new way of building” and called it archiborescence. For three decades, this eco-visionary has been imagining and realizing homes, urban landscapes, cities… inspired by all he has been able to observe in natural environments. There are several things I love about Schuiten’s work. Cosmetically, the [...]
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