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Glass and Concrete - A cabin by the Great Peter Zumthor

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Best Commencement Speech. - NPR

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How to convert a van to an off-road camper in 17 days.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wksm1xI1Ms0)

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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J. R. R. Tolkien (3. January 1892 - 2. September 1973)

Thank you for all the joy and wonder you have given us. Thank you for the world you created and allowed us to enjoy.

“End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.”

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Go Hasegawa, Pilotis in a forest, 2011, Tokyo, Japan

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Fountain Flow | Atelier I-N-D-J & CTHM Architects Location: Xintiandi, Shanghai, China

- Delicate ethereal strands spill from the restaurants upper storey towards ‘Fountains’ namesake set within the courtyard below. 30,000 metres of translucent cord refract and reflect light giving a shimmering impression of water cascading across the buildings face. This simple yet bold installation playfully changes appearance as caught light, both natural and artificial, refracts and reflects across and through it, creating a veil like curtain to an otherwise tired and dated facade.

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Casa Meztitla | EDAA Location: Tepoztlán, Mexico | Source: wallpaper*

- Casa Meztitla is an intervention of a natural scenario. It showcases the luxurious value of leisure, the tropical weather, the intense sunlight, the smells of nature, the over 500 year-old landscaped terraces and the ever-present rock mountain: El Tepozteco. It is context in itself. The house, built out of rough stone, crawls low under the trees, aligned with the vegetated-covered stone slopes. It is the creation of pure space within the natural space (Paz, O., 1987). It has an introverted living yet is continually open to its surroundings. Only two elements reveal its existence to the outside world: the colorful bougainvillea flowers showing randomly through the trees’ dense foliage, which mark the plot’s perimeter; and the massive and monolithic white box that emerges through the treetops.

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The Infinite Bridge | Gjøde & Povlsgaard Arkitekter Location: Aarhus, Denmark | 2015

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Ornamental Tectonics Vol. 1 - Pavilion 01 | Andrew Wagner (AWAGS)

- Ornamental Tectonics is a tri-monthly exploration that serves as a graphic and physical component of theoretical and historical architectural research. The project grew from a desire to contextualize, test, experiment, and explore architectural history through the act of design, rather than strictly through reading and writing academic papers. Essentially, I try to quantify the images, modes of production, tectonic ideas, and representations from ancient drawings, and imagine how those systems and ideas could be further explored using the tools of the post post-modern digital world.