With Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity opening at the Moma, we thought it fitting to look at Iwao Yamawaki, a Japanese Architect turned Bauhaus Photographer.

A friend sent me a link to Wonderwall’s website today, and I was amazed by the interiors they have designed.  Founded by Masamichi Katayama in 2000, the Japanese interior design firm is most known for their retail design (those who have been in Soho’s Uniqlo, that’s them) but, they do dabble in architecture and product design as well.  All of it is so sleek.

photos by KOZO TAKAYAMA

For more info on the firm, have a look at their website here

Well, not really. But the amazing use of glass and space in this house designed by Kraus-Schoenberg Architects allows it to appear as if it is floating about the ground.  For more info and photos go here

This house in Germany was built upside down for a special exhibition.  The designers went so far as to drill all of the furnishings into their proper places on the floor/ceiling.  I would live in this house if they kept the furniture on the ground.

More pics here

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Then it is seriously one of the weirdest and most awesome houses ever created.  What do you think the inside looks like?  Ugh, there are too many questions that need to be answered.

more at the Mail Online here

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Detroit in its modern state of decay is so intruiging.  It reminds me of those weird towns in Atlas Shrugged, where all that remains is mayhem.  And for Detroit, all that remains are the Lions, Tigers, and Red Wings.

Have a look at more images here

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Vogue takes a look

Up and Down, Up and Down, Up and Down

Check it out bigger here.

The 101-year old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer had his first significant building erected at the age of 38.  A 60 plus year career, Niemeyer is the perfect example of if you’re doing something you love, you can do it forever.  This video makes me want to see Brasilia.  Part 2 after the jump

This Weekend May 14-17th don’t miss ‘NY local’, an exhibition curated by designboom that presents the work of some of the big apple’s best transplants, expats, design veterans and rising stars.
‘NY local’ is part of an off-site event program in the meatpacking district.

Make sure to check out the work by TWBE’s friend Matt Gagnon ( “grid wall” featured above)
Matt’s work can be described as complex concepts executed elegently.(that’s just me)

Here’s the list:
- lindsey adelman
- matt gagnon
- paul loebach
- kiel mead
- alissia melka-teichroew
- jason miller
- takeshi miyakawa
- RBW (RichBrilliantWilling)
- garth roberts
- john truex
- matthew weatherly

A couple months ago we saw the Ramp House, now this.  The offices of Comvert S.r.l. in Milan, Italy, complete with the very skateable Bastard Bowl suspended at over 18 feet off the ground.

more at ArchDaily

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Chalk this up to a simple fact. If you have enough money, you can turn your childhood dreams into reality.

The Ramp House was designed by Archivirus Architecture and Design of Greece, for a client who made a simple request that the house be a ’skateable environment’.

See more at Architectural Review

Sort of. Peter Saville is putting the final touches on a new showroom in Shoreditch for the Danish textile company Kvadrat, in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye. “David has pretty much created a space that is a tribute to Kvadrat and Peter Saville,” he says. Saville has been working with Kvadrat for nearly five years, principally as a consultant and creative director, but this project, even by his own standards, is perhaps his most Saville-esque with the company to date. Read more…

Created as an extension for the Wettingen School, the cafeteria was designed by mlzd architect.
The building envelope, composed of a homogeneous coverage of black anodized aluminium sheets, plays with the light that seeps between the silhouettes of the flowers and leafs cut out of the aluminium sheets. The new cafeteria has a rural character and part of a the conceptual and formal analogy with the traditional farm, which makes the volume, types and structural features of the interior space.

For more info and pics go here.