Harry Schwartz Eats the World » architecture http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world Figuratively. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Handmade Islands http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/handmade-islands http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/handmade-islands#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:27:46 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1247 Montenegro

In a bay off the coast of Montenegro there’s a church on an island. The island was built by hand.

The idea that devotional rock-throwing has become an art of creating new terrain, generation after generation, rock after rock, pebble after pebble, is stunning to me. Perhaps in a thousand years, a whole archipelago of churches will exist there, standing atop a waterlogged maze of old pleasure boats and fishing ships, the mainland hills and valleys nearby denuded of loose stones altogether. Inadvertently, then, this is as much a museum of local geology—a catalog of rocks—as it is a churchyard.

]]> http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/handmade-islands/feed 0 Rocio Romero http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/rocio-romero http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/rocio-romero#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:44:07 +0000 Harry http://www.blogonauts.com/eats-the-world/?p=1167 LVS_brochure

rocio-romero-stacks

Rocio Romero makes these great modular home kits. Clean lines, huge open spaces, energy-efficient, and apparently very inexpensive for DIY’ers.

One day, one day.

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The 32m2 apartment.

(from TreeHugger, via RowdyKittens)

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My future home is going to include this staircase.

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Some really great apartments are about to be built in Singapore. Do want.

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The Australian company Icewall One builds, among other things, an igloo cabin. This may replace (or at least supplement) my previous dream of building a house entirely out of shipping containers.

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The ever-pleasant Longwood Gardens in SE Pennsylvania hosts a few treehouses, so while I was visiting a couple weeks ago I snapped some photos. I’m always planning the perfect treehouse, so I was both impressed by the craftsmanship that went into these and disappointed that they’re all actually supported by steel columns, which is clearly cheating.

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