二月的倒数第二天和二月的倒数第一天

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去 Parc de Sceaux，有一点儿冷，没什么人。-->>


“Images et Magies d'architectures”的露天展。
二十世纪初的祈年殿，泛黄的片子，立在那儿，像个装置。-->>


New York Central Station.
以前看到过的一种说法：火车站是工业时代的大教堂（Cathedrals in the age of industry），精辟呀。-->>

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去Cinémathèque看“Georges Méliès, magicien du cinéma”。老年破产的Méliès在蒙帕纳斯车站（Gare de Montparnasse）的一爿小店里卖玩具和糖果。唏嘘。-->>

[Bamboo] Wallpaper Gallery

Bamboo louvers mounted on folding frames, cover the facade

The basic parallelogram block hosts units of different sizes and shapes
















Versatile, super eco-friendly and comfortingly cosy, bamboo has become increasingly popular in both design and architecture
















Madrid's Carabanchel public housing development

Memory Point by Attila F Kovács

Our friends at hg.hu have sent us images of Memory Point, a "political terror museum" in Hódmezővásárhey, Hungary, designed by film designer Attila F Kovács.

Memory Point (Emlékpont) is a local history museum designed "to help mentally close the wretched years of the socialist experiment", according to hg.hu.

Built on top of a townhouse in the south Hungary agricultural town, the museum contains numerous scenographic jokes at the pomposity and absurdity of the Communist era, including an army of giant sculptures of Workers' Militiamen sunk waist-deep in the ground.

Photos are by János Szentiváni.

More pictures and a description here.

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Posted by Marcus Fairs

Hiroaki Ohtani - Kobe Layer House

Hiroaki Ohtani

Kobe Layer House

Continuing the last posts stripy theme, which is about all these houses have in common, despite the Japanese link. This is Hiroaki Ohtani solution to infill in Japan.

The house is made up of pre-cast concrete strips, stacked unevenly to allow stairs, furniture and floors to be inserted in the gaps.
It's tight, claustrophobic, yet entirely open. There are no internal doors, apart from the sliding doors to the toilet.

Passing the tree in the courtyard, that brings irregualar form to this oterwise linear exterior, you enter on a landing, where you can either traverse to the bedroom, or head downstairs to the basement where a formal dining room and bathroom are housed.
Climbing up you reach the living room and galley kitchen with a steep set of stairs taking you to the roof deck, of which half is a glazed panel to bathe the main stairwell with light. The front of the house is a larged glass panel to let more light into the house and the rear wall has smaller window striped by the precast concrete.

Although flawed in size and solar capabilities, both in terms of heating the house and getting light in, it still seems warm with the living room and its pot bellied fire.

via: Architectural Review