Ice.
It is so hot in Vancouver today, I keep thinking of this hotel. The Jukkasjarvi Ice Hotel in Sweden is rebuilt every year, always to a different design but always from ice and always with blankets of...
View ArticleRya rugs.
I love when you set out to determine the pure roots of a design or craft tradition but then you find out that purity has nothing to do with it, and cultural borrowing and hybridity are overwhelmingly...
View ArticleHanging ships
Western European churches, especially those near or in shipping towns, often suspended a model ship from the ceiling as a symbol of good luck for sailors. The practice is probably most common in...
View ArticleKenneth Frampton on Aalto, Corbusier, detached houses, the suburbs &c.
The video below, produced by Slow Home Studio in Calgary, Alberta, is a short, brilliant, unrehearsed lecture by renowned architect, architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton on the history...
View ArticleThe Bridge – TV show set on both sides of bridge between Copenhagen, Denmark...
I guess it’s becoming evident that I watch a lot of Scandinavian television. The Bridge (or Bron/Broen as it’s know in Scandinavia, meaning “bridge” in Swedish and Danish) follows a long murder...
View ArticleSwedish architect Per Friberg – possible designer of house in Bron/Broen
Above: Erlandson Villa designed by Per Friberg. Below: detective Martin Rohde in “Bron/Broen” (The Bridge) The Bridge (Bron/Broen) is a Danish-Swedish TV co-production set on both sides of the...
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