Geoffrey Bawa architecture } Sri Lanka
I was first given a tip off about Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa by a great couple we met at a wedding the week before my trip. They had just returned from Sri Lanka and India and had a tonne of brilliant info of where to stay, do and see. Don’t you just love a [...]
Architecture/Nature } Laurence Ciclet
Nature provides a blue print to modern design – illustrated so brilliantly here by French born, German based Architect/Photographer Laurence Ciclet. No surprise really that natural structures that stand the test of time can provide the same engineering stability and architectural sophistication when replicated…. and Ciclet certainly has a spot on eye for such comparisons.
A tree house collection
Tree houses are what kid’s dreams are made of, and as a child of the 80′s – this vision for me included a pet ewok. Seems a few kids grew up to be architects and decided to take matters into their own hands, building tree houses for grown-ups, sadly minus the ewoks, but with impressively [...]
Norway travel by nature & architecture
Have you been to Norway? No?! Me neither. For those who have, you might recognise these fantastical scenes. I can’t believe these places can be found on earth, they look so darn heavenly. They must shoot a lot of car commercials here! The National Tourist Routes in Norway has a fantabulous site where you choose [...]
Vincent Callebaut Architecture
Welcome to the future. Belgian Architect Vincent Callebaut takes us there on his quest for energy intelligent, planet conscious, creative designs. “Cities make up just 2% of the Earth’s surface, but they house half of the world’s people and consume 75% of its resources. When we over-consume those resources, we don’t merely harm the natural environment, we [...]
Tattoo house: Andrew Maynard Architects
What do you do when you’ve got no trees, a square building and a council requirement to screen overlooking second-story spaces? Why, you tattoo the windows, of course. Well that’s what the resourceful folk of Andrew Maynard Architects did when faced with this challenge at a place in Fitzroy, Australia – and it won them [...]
Madrid Residence | Benjamin Calleja Architecture
There was a little morning ritual I had going on our recent trip to Argentina of picking up a lovely design mag and flicking through it over a coffee at a sta-lish cafe. Ok, so I only did it twice, but it sounds more glamorous if we pretend it was every day. Point being, there [...]
Hungry? Eat the house…
I love the Dutch. Partly because I’m partly one; partly because they invented the best mayonnaise and cheese in the world; partly because I loved living in Holland for a year; and partly because of the way they embrace small spaces. Is this genius or what? Run out of land. No problem! Grow stuff on [...]
Seaside Dane
I can very easily picture myself here. Somewhere along the coast of Denmark, between Vedbæk and Rungsted, stands this residence of Danish furniture architect Rud Thygesen. The white semicircular villa, just a few steps from the sea, was originally built in 1957 and later expanded towards the water. Can you imagine getting lost for many [...]
Marcos Acayaba Arquitetos, circa 1972
If I were an arch shaped house I’d want to look just like Residência na Cidade Jardim, created in 1972 by Marcos Acayaba Arquitetos. Check lush landscaping, lux ambient luminance, a cool pool on a spacious plot in sub-tropical São Paulo, Brazil… perfectly paradisaical.
