Posts from the ‘ARCHITECTURE’ Category
Life sized labyrinths and human twig cocoons are not what you’d expect to see at the end of a bumpy road in the Russian countryside.
But that’s where you can find colorfully dressed art nomads happily making the pilgrimage 100 miles outside of Moscow to Nikola-Lenivets. It’s a sleepy farming village where the fields and forests are [...]
1) TODOS SANTOS, MEXICO
Todos Santos is a small, groovy farming and fishing village about two hours drive north of San Jose del Cabo at the tip of Baja California. it’s known for its arty community and amazing winter surf swell. This rambling historic 150 year old sugar processing factory has three formal bedrooms, two baths, [...]
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If you’re into adobe pueblos, sub-Saharan wattle-and-daub huts, and redwoods treehouses, then you’ll love the new book “Buildings without Architects: A Global Guide to Everyday Architecture” (Rizzoli)
The London based authors traveled the world to bring the coolest traditional, tribal, and do-it-yourself vernacular styles to the pages. Down with the lux condo and its aromatherapy [...]
Long bare wooden picnic tables are a must for any gypset homestead. They’re easy to build and great for fitting the whole group around. but sometimes the set up can look a bit generic. At the opening of Design Miami last night, British designer Peter Marigold unveiled a clever fix for the problem.
Half the table [...]
This just in from the big skies of Marfa, Texas. The latest in hospitality from Austin entrepreneur Liz Lambert. Save us a room, er, a bunk…
“El Cosmico will be part yurt and hammock hotel, part residential living, part art-house, greenhouse and amphitheatre – a community space that fosters and agitates artistic and intellectual exchange.” Plus [...]
If you have a thing for geodesic domes, teepees, and hot tubs then you’ll love “Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties” (Rizzoli)
Author Alastair Gordon mines deep into the blissful-design minds of Paolo Soleri (whose architectural commune “Arcosanti” still exists in the Arizona desert,) Frederick Kiesler (whose Endless House mimicked termite mounds), and the thousands [...]
This is a small surf pyramid in Mancora, Peru— a surf town in the north of the country near the boarder of Ecuador with amazing breaks and warm water. I wouldn’t say it’s a beautiful place—the earth is scorched and dusty and it’s the center of the countries petrol industry with pipelines and storage barrels [...]
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