Our friends, R and N, have a beautiful house in northeast Portland, OR. They are both architects, which accounts for their impeccable taste and eye for detail that is obvious when you step foot inside their home. Most recently though, I got to see the rewards of R's engineering know-how and a bit of elbow grease, when she pulled together this beautiful light fixture designed by Lindsey Adelman for her kitchen. The light is so attractive and evokes both vintage and modern sensibility.

Adelman offers DIY directions on her website for those who love the aesthetic of her bubble lighting series, but don't want to have to commission a new design and installation.

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Natural architecture and landscape of the Arctic.

Crackling, caving, flipping, breaking, submersion, and exposure over tens of thousands of years.

A collection of some of my photographs from our trip to Scoresby Sund in Greenland.



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Terenobu Fujimori is a historian of Japanese architecture that has been designing whimsical structures informed by a Japanese aesthetic since 1990. He grew up in a small village of Japan about two hours south of Nagano (not far from the woods of Yudanaka where we visited earlier this year!)

He uses traditional Japanese techniques like charring wood, three planks at a time, to create a sealed waterproof slat to line the siding of his homes. His work is fantastical and imaginative which is immediately visible in his ‘takasugi-an’ (too high) teahouse, which is reached by ladder and can only accommodate one adult standing up inside. His work is also environmentally considerate as seen in his "leek house," with its roof flanked by rows of alliaceae.

His work was featured in the 2006 Venice Bienniale and he continues to work with his closely-knit group of friends, ROJO, (his personal band of architectural detectives). Read more about him here.

The second to last photo is of his ‘student dormitory’ for kumamoto agricultural college (2000). The last is of 'nemunoki art museum' (2007)

A temple fit for one man's ego.  Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺), Kyoto. 

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Hotel Claska in Tokyo

The Hotel Claska, designed by architect/designer Tei Shuwa, boasts a main floor gallery/performance space and individual rooms; each with its own unique look and designed by a different firm.

This room is called Weekly Residence and is designed with cut-outs in the wall for all of your essentials while traveling. There are cut-outs for "bags, clothes, speakers" and even a cut out vase, inside which you could place a freshly cut flower. The room is meant to function as a tool.