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Windows that turn into balconies with a click

Bloomframe, the innovative window that morphs magically into a balcony at the touch of a button, is no longer a prototype. This revolutionary and multi-award-winning design is now in production and coming to an urban landscape near you. The first models are destined for an apartment building in Amsterdam. The product’s creators, Amsterdam-based architecture firm HofmanDujardin explain the Bloomframe window will soon become a familiar element of the modern cityscape as more architects, developers and builders realize its considerable functional and aesthetic benefits. H/T

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Tel Aviv Suberbe Residence Neuman Hayner Architects

The house was planned for a family of four. Two cubes separated by a passage combine into an “L” shaped house. The front cube, of double height space, holds the public areas: entrance, living room, kitchen, dining room (all on the ground floor) and a study on the first floor. The passage, 4 meters wide, continues the patio, which is the center of the house, and separates the public wing and the private wing. The rear cube, (the private wing) has 3 floors: The ground floor holds a living room, two children rooms, a laundry room and a guests w.c. The 1st floor holds the master bedroom, and a bridge passage to the library (on the front cube). The basement is well lightened and ventilated by a large patio, and holds a guest’s room, a safe room, and a storage room.

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Kolumba Museum Peter Zumthor

Although our lives take place everywhere, we remember some places in particular. One such place is “Kolumba” in Cologne’s city centre. A secret garden, stone ruins, a uniquely dense archaeological site: the ruins of the gothic church in the centre of rebuilt Cologne are the most impressive symbol of the city’s almost complete destruction during the Second World War. 

The new building designed by Peter Zumthor transfers the sum of the existing fragments into one complete building. In adopting the original plans and building on the ruins, the new building becomes part of the architectural continuum. The warm grey brick of the massive building unite with the tuffs, basalt and bricks of the ruins. The new building develops seamlessly from the old remains whilst respecting it in every detail. In terms of urban planning, it restores the lost core of one of the once most beautiful parts of Cologne’s city centre.

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Yutaka Takanashi

Esao Andrews “I Was Here Earlier” (2016)

Ebisu East Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Rose twin pattern for an upcoming project

I paint ugly nonsense just to look at it more up close and hunt for the pretty details.

The Dreamer couch by Pop & Scott

Killing it, Laura Berger