ilovereadingandwriting:

Small Space Surprise: Flip-Down Walls Reveal Writer’s Cabin

vnaine:

Liyuan Library (near Beijing, China)

Designed by Li Xiaodong Atelier

Perfect.

minusmanhattan: Burj Khalifa looking down at Dubai by Samar Jodha via zsultan I could stare at this for hours.

minusmanhattan: Burj Khalifa looking down at Dubai by Samar Jodha

via zsultan

I could stare at this for hours.

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“The more interesting question is whether a place like Cupertino can maintain its low-density sprawl in future decades, as the Bay Area’s population continues to grow, and whether the council’s enthusiasm for the new Apple headquarters can be read as an endorsement of a car-dependent approach to city and regional planning that might have made sense in the 1970s but will seem irresponsible or worse by 2050.”
Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic - Apple’s new headquarters lacks vision
ilikeartalot: Curtain Door by Matharoo Associates At 5.2m high and 1.7m wide, the door is comprised of 40 sections of 254mm-thick Burma teak. Each section is carved so that the door integrates 160 pulleys, 80 ball bearings, a wire-rope and a counter weight hidden within the single pivot. Stacked one above the other in the closed position, each plank can then rotate by a simple push causing the door to reconfigure into a sinusoidal curve.

ilikeartalot:

Curtain Door by Matharoo Associates

At 5.2m high and 1.7m wide, the door is comprised of 40 sections of 254mm-thick Burma teak. Each section is carved so that the door integrates 160 pulleys, 80 ball bearings, a wire-rope and a counter weight hidden within the single pivot.

Stacked one above the other in the closed position, each plank can then rotate by a simple push causing the door to reconfigure into a sinusoidal curve.

therealjanelle: another photo by gillian bostock Jackie Treehorn’s house! Compare:

therealjanelle:

another photo by gillian bostock

Jackie Treehorn’s house! Compare:

Waterstudio.NL’s Floating Star Shaped Resort Islands for the Maldives: The tiny island nation of the Maldives is under serious threat from rising sea levels caused by climate change. No part of the 1200 islands which make up the Maldives is more than six feet above sea level, so as sea-levels rise (as they will if rampant climate change is not stopped), the entire nation will be under water. Because of this, the Maldives government is pulling out all the stops in the fight against climate change. Not only has the entire country gone carbon neutral, educated all of their children in environmental science and furiously built retaining walls around every island, but the government is buying up land in nearby nations as a place to retreat to when the Maldives disappears. Now it appears that the intrepid Maldivians have come up with a new strategy to fight the rising tide: creating mini floating islands! This reminds of this stupid question on bash. How will these floating islands be anchored, i.e., what will be the mechanism that allows them to move further from the ocean floor as the sea level rises?
Waterstudio.NL’s Floating Star Shaped Resort Islands for the Maldives:
The tiny island nation of the Maldives is under serious threat from rising sea levels caused by climate change. No part of the 1200 islands which make up the Maldives is more than six feet above sea level, so as sea-levels rise (as they will if rampant climate change is not stopped), the entire nation will be under water. Because of this, the Maldives government is pulling out all the stops in the fight against climate change. Not only has the entire country gone carbon neutral, educated all of their children in environmental science and furiously built retaining walls around every island, but the government is buying up land in nearby nations as a place to retreat to when the Maldives disappears. Now it appears that the intrepid Maldivians have come up with a new strategy to fight the rising tide: creating mini floating islands!

This reminds of this stupid question on bash. How will these floating islands be anchored, i.e., what will be the mechanism that allows them to move further from the ocean floor as the sea level rises?