Menlo Park Addition and Remodel

This project was completed last year, 

and now the fence is in.

pure form

crisp lines,

what a volume!

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Japanese burnt cedar siding

my friend Scott has been documenting 

some recent research on yakisugi

from his post:

Once the surface has been treated the wood requires no stains, sealers or other chemical treatments and is naturally resistant to insects.

open truss ceiling

great ceiling, well-done lighting.

exposed truss, painted out.

rustic floor with crisp drywall.

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Lloyd Kahn Shelter

plywood adoration society

as a fellow lover of plywood, 

I thoroughly enjoyed this video,
"Love Letter to Plywood."

Tree rounds floor

My friend Jake Gorst
(whose latest kickstarter you should check out)
recently commented on Alastair Gordon's remarkable floor.

There was a similar floor in part of Robert Motherwell's

Long Island studio, designed by Jean Prouvé,

and William Wurster used tree rounds as an exterior paver

at the Gregory Farmhouse.

Photos courtesy of Alastair Gordon

rustic modern cottages

morerava cottages

AATA

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excellent railing

bright aqua string railing

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Lewerentz flower shop at Malmo

my friend John told me about this 

beauty of a building, the flower shop at the malmo cemetery.

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jagodesque:

photo from here (with interesting text)

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update: just found a nice post on Lewerentz here

Outer Sunset scene

custom planters outside of the Mollusk surf shop

hand-painted 'open' sign

indoor treehouse, with painted plywood footballs as leaves

handmade boat.  plywood + varnish = TLF

plywood lamps

driftwood bench outside Outerlands

seal wearing cable fisherman's sweater

an even more beautiful hand-painted 'open' sign

shark painting.

At Trouble Coffee: not only the driftwood bench, but a nice sign.

General Store:

plywood + driftwood 

cork lamps

warm glow

float lamp

from benjamin hubert

villa leefdaal

Macken & Macken - Villa à Leefdaal  Arnaud De Moor from AlICe lab on Vimeo.

okay, this is in french, 

but there are just so many cognates in architecture 

that maybe you can bear with it and get the overall sense?

or just watch the spaces unfold and look

at the materials

and watch the graphic representations

of the relationships between the spaces.

grey glass wall

the grey glass wall is also great with the red pipe column.

fine white table too.

 you'll never catch me staining oak dark, but it does add nice contrast.

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