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Positive & Negative Spaces Shape Home of Endless Angles

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 08:00 AM PST

[ Filed under Offbeat & in the Architecture category ]

How do you create a family-friendly home in a densely-populated and often-noisy urban area? The only possibility at times is to turn the focus inward, but rarely does it work so well as in this house outside of Hiroshima.

Created for a family of four, the most obvious and key choices relate to material and colors: a pure white space filled in with plywood boxes that give one the sense of being ‘outside’ when in the white zone, and ‘inside’ when in the wooden areas.

A series of terraces and rooms result, which shift in relation to one another as occupants move between the two. There is an intentional sense of infinity, the home wrapping in on itself like a modern-day Mobius Strip.

Combining cheap materials with complex structures, this is yet again a great contemporary work by Suppose Design Office in Japan.

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Concrete Handbags: Fleeting Fashion of Permanent Materials

Posted: 12 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

[ Filed under More & in the Fashion & Style category ]

It is hard to imagine these heavy concrete-based handbag designs becoming a lasting trend, except in their materiality, that is.

Still, you have to admire anyone who tries to take this now-classic modern material and make something else out of it besides buildings, including Hungarian designer Katalin Ivanka with her experiments in bags and boxes made wholly or partly from concrete.

"Beginning with a model made almost entirely of concrete, the evolution of the collection explores the effects produced by alternating the ratio between concrete and leather." The next question, one has to suppose, is: where does it end?