I love typographic maps! Here is another great example that you can actually order in form of wall stickers for your home or office.
Almost hidden in the garden, this house designed by Cunningham Architects and located in Dallas is a beautiful fusion of architecture, nature and urban neighborhood.
More background information, pictures and plans of the “House in the Garden” at arch daily.
Spanish architecture firm A-cero has designed this house in the township of Las Rozas in Madrid.
You can find out more about this house as well as more A-cero houses at +Mood.
This wooden house by Sou Fujimoto Architects (Japan) reminds me a bit of the famous skill game “Jenga” but is certainly a great concept where the room’s functionality is recreated every time you use it.
There are no separations of floor, wall, and ceiling here. A place that one thought was a floor becomes a chair, a ceiling, a wall from various positions. The floor levels are relative and spatiality is perceived differently according to one’s position. Here, people are distributed three-dimensionally in the space. This is a place like an amorphous landscape with a new experience of various senses of distances. Inhabitants discover, rather than being prescribed, various functionalities in these convolutions.
Read the full story with more pictures of the house at Arch Daily
Starting two years ago, photographer Todd Selby visits home and work environments of authors, musicians, artists, designers and actors to capture interesting people in their creative spaces. His exceptional pictures from more than 150 shootings in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney or London are featured on his website TheSelby.com.
To find out more about Selby’s work and background, I recommend the interview with him at gothamist.
Impressive example of maximizing living space in Hong Kong by innovative interior design:
