St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo

http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/St_Marys_Cathedral_Tokyo

I wanted to share with you this great building that I found while surfing the other day. It is the St. Mary Cathedral in Tokyo.  This build is so well thought out for a cathedral. First of all the architect really made great choices with the use of materials, utilizing concrete, glass, and steel.  With a main entry door fashioned from a rough wood that has a traditional Asian appearance. It is so beautiful and draws you to the entrance with its warm feel. The interior is amazing with the use of glass on the vertical opening the space up for amazing natural light. I really feel that the architect thought of everything. You have to check out the image on the website of the google earth. The spin they put on the plan is the perfect combination of traditional and modern.  Far beyond any transitional style I have ever seen.

Love it!

Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, Iceland

I found this picture in the National Geographic Mag. online and thought I must share this with you all.

Visions of Da Future: Lilypad (Floating City)

Murakami Chair by Rochus Jacob

 

Hello everyone, it’s me Jenn back to share this cool product with you. For that person in your family that loves to read and rock this is an amazing concept for a chair. The lighting fixture is attached to the chair and as you rock, the energy is collected transferred and used by the lamp source. What an ingenious way to reduce our energy consumption!!! The energy that you use to rock the chair is transferred directly to the lamp. The motion that you create gives it, its power. How cool is that! Below is the creators vision for the chair, this is just spot on!

‘I was looking for opportunities to generate energy through activities we naturally do. The final result is a rocking chair that enables the user to experience production and consumption of electricity in a gentle and rewarding way. An abstract process becomes tangible and eventually cultivates natural awareness. Complexity is covered by simplicity. Advanced nano-dynamo technology which is built in to the skids of the chair and more efficient light sources such as the newly developed OLED generation makes it possible to build a rocking chair with a reading lamp running on electricity generated from the rocking motion. During daylight the energy gets stored in a battery pack. The construction of the flat and bendable organic light emitting diodes allows new form factors such as using the traditional shape of a lamp but instead of having a light bulb the lampshade himself turns out to be the light source. To have a drastic reduction of consumption the big challenge will be to make consuming less feel like getting more.’ -Rochus Jacob,

Turnbull Griffin Halesloop Architects

schubLaden

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Found this website while I was looking for furniture and thought this company made some beautiful pieces. Very rustic and custom as they are built from recycled drawers. They have options for custom designs any an enormous amount of options for many different sizes or spaces. An exciting drawl to the line is that every piece is different, signed and numbered.

The word schubLaden means drawer in German, which is regretfully where the company is located. In the heart of Berlin, Germany-Kreuzberg´s Graefedistrict to be exact, a hip and growing part of town.

 I love this idea of taking something old and making it new again. We should all try our best to repurpose thing, make good use of what we have before we consume more. Why not, right! I think that we all could do this same concept with things at home. All you have to do to make the old new is a coat of paint or an inventive change of use.

The 1 Book by Dan Zadra & Kobi Yamada

 The 1 Book by Dan Zadra & Kobi Yamada

The link is above check out this video. Everyone you need to watch this. If you are feeling bad or down this will help inspire you to feel better about yourself and what life can be! You are one, and so am I