The Spanish city, Barcelona, is famous it’s architecture. The city is the home of the work of Antonio Gaudi, the man who we always like to quote as saying. “I hope that in the future all buildings will be soft and furry.” The man never met a corner he liked, so his buildings were filled […]
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Mushroom Rooms
Mushrooms. We usually think of them as food. Ya know, we have sliced mushrooms on pizza, we sometimes make rice with veggies, including mushrooms. Apparently, mushrooms can also be used to make ROOMS. Mushrooms, also called mycelium, grow everywhere and have lots of great qualities, including acting like glue. So, if mycelium is mixed with […]
Try Drawing at Home
You know when you just cannot think of anything to draw? That feeling of having white paper just staring up at you, begging for something and you are absolutely empty of ideas? You can always open your eyes and draw your space. That could be the room where you sleep, the place you eat, or […]
Architecture Projects for Kids from Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners is one of the world famous architecture firms that designs buildings all over the globe. One of the very well-known buildings by Foster + Partners is located in London. This building has the strange name of “The Gherkin”, which translated into American English is “The Pickle.” We like it very much because […]
Freddy Froebel’s Fun
Ok, his name was Friedrich Froebel, not Freddy, but perhaps he was Freddy to his friends. He did seem to like to make fun for children. He is credited for having invented the first Kindergarten and for designing many toys for children based on geometric shapes, natural materials and fine craftmanship. His toys were called […]
Disney Castle is Pretend – No Surprise
Back to Disneyland. When Walt Disney was designing the theme park based on the animations he created, he wanted the place to be bigger and better than real life. It would be a land of fantasy. To that end, he had the designers design the castle at the entry to the park to LOOK BIGGER […]
Adorable Adobe
Do you know what adobe is? It is a building material that is as old as the hills (not sure what the means) except that adobe has been around for many centuries and it is made of earth (like the hills). It starts out as earth. Earth that is not too wet and yet not […]
A Tower Named Camp
We love this Danish tower so much. And we hope to be able to visit it someday and climb, climb, climb up to the top and look out in the forest. I mean, who wouldn’t want to go there, to Haslev, Denmark, and visit a 900 meter boardwalk connected to a 45 meter tall observation […]
Cover Up!
Ghanaian artist, Ibrahim Mahama covers up buildings in a most interesting way. The artist takes sacks made of jute, also called hessian sacks, that are commonplace in his native country, Ghana. Artist Mahama has collected a zillion of the sacks and then proceeded to sew them together and completely cover up buildings with the material. […]
Know When to Fold A House
It is fascinating how many modular houses are available now. These are houses that are manufactured in a factory and then shipped to the location where they are assembled and built. Some of these houses are made out of shipping containers or other metal boxes that attach to each other. Some others that we just […]