More…That mezzanine! The proportions! (via Japanese-Inspired Living in Sydney : Remodelista)
Sigh. I’ve been working on variations of this type of building typology for 10 years. My visions remain in a series of notebooks. It is humbling to see such a well executed version of something I have dreamed. (via Japanese-Inspired Living in Sydney : Remodelista)
“The lesson here, Schnarch notes, is that compromise isn’t the answer; too much compromise generated the problem to begin with. The healthy alternative, in relationships, is what he calls “differentiation”: for each partner to grow sufficiently secure in themselves that pursuing strange new directions doesn’t seem like a threat. In life in general, it’s an argument for alternating between preferences, rather than blending them: your weird restaurant choice this week, my obscure art-house movie next week.”
via This column will change your life: savour the fantasies of others
Differentiation.
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Love the green.
(via thebrickhouse)
Dieter Rams: Design by Vitsoe, 1976 speech
In celebration of his 80th birthday, Dieter Rams has invited his employer, Vitsœ, to publish the full transcript of the speech on the fundamentals of design he delivered in December 1976 in New York. The text prefigures Rams’ Ten…
Timeless
(via 20 Odd Questions: Paul Smith - WSJ.com) Any old guy that cites “Withnail and I” as a movie inspiration and is a knighted Sir it pretty damn cool.
I can’t tell what the hell this is, but it has a cool old Volvo and some sort of very rad Nordic giant.
(via fuckyeahvolvo)
Rural Studio’s 20k House versions VIII and X in Hale County, Alabama.
Photographs by Timothy Hursley.
Rural studio. Still doing good work.