“New UK Library Fits Within a Phone Booth”
(via Inhabitat)

“Ron Arad Rips Off Richard Serra in His First Major Building: The path-breaking furniture designer is about to complete a design museum in Israel…”
(article and video via Fast Company)

photos of the Poplar Picture bookstore in Beijing, designed by Sako in 2005

verymuch:

The Kid’s Republic Bookstore

This space was designed by Sako, Japan’s leading architecture firm, for Poplar Picture Bookstore, Japan’s largest children’s book publisher. (via my modern met)

This is a fantastic kid space. All for books!

The World In Lego (discovered via coudal via environmental graffiti)

Open-air Library in Germany, designed by KARO
(discovered via dezeen)

“People in glass apartments shouldn’t throw stones or other projectiles. Nor should they engage in private acts directly in front of their floor to ceiling windows. Yet lately there has been a rash of exhibitionism throughout New York City owing to an increase in floor to ceiling windowed buildings. Influenced in part by Richard Meier’s glass box towers in lower Manhattan (and his newest one at One Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn), these transparent living spaces, once the quintessence of twenty first century Modernism, have become eyesores, particularly at night when they take on the appearance of showrooms in Amsterdam’s red light district…”  —Steven Heller’s critique on “People in Glass Apartments” via Design Observer, info for above photo: 445 Lafayette Place, designed by Charles Gwathmey

photos of the new Leo Burnett Office designed by the Singapore-based
Ministry of Design
(discovered via Dezeen)

chrbutler:

From the Pentagram blog:

Monica Pidgeon, who with Pentagram co-founder and architect Theo Crosby edited and transformed the journal Architectural Design (AD), died on September 17 at age 95.

“Winning Design Revealed For 2014 Incheon Asian Games”: Populous + Heerim Architects and Planner
(discovered via flylyf)

Facebook Headquarters designed by Studio O+A
(discovered via Dezeen)

Photo above of the Longaberger Home Office in Newark, OH
image courtesy of The Longaberger Company

one of 15 architectural surprises found in The World’s Ugliest Buildings
(discovered via coudal via Travel + Leisure)

Edible Restaurant by Sander Architects
(discovered via ArchDaily)

loveallthis:

This loft is insanely smart and gorgeous.

Architect Kyu Sung Woo renovated his son Wonbo’s Union Square loft taking advantage of natural light and the 12 feet of vertical space — he stacked a minimal loft sleeping platform above the compact kitchen.

from Apartment Therapy NY.

“Frank, Ettore and Toyo by Chris Labrooy,” 3-D typography inspired by architecture (discovered via Dezeen, designed by Chris Labrooy)

likeable:

“…Built on marshland, former flood plains and paddyfields 30km north-west of Seoul, Paju Book City is an attempt to create an ambitious new town based exclusively around publishing. We may be reading obituaries of the book and the printed word almost daily, but the news has not reached Paju. Plans for the Book City were first proposed in 1989…”

—excerpt from article A City Dedicated to Books and Print in FT.com