Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Thin Living.

No one, I mean no one is playing around with limited space and great architecture, the way the Japanese are. Architecture is a very beautiful style of design, it can change the entire look and feel of a single room or an entire city. And what's most interesting about what Japanese architects are doing, is using slivers of space to create homes that somehow manage to give the illusion of space, I'm sure this is very challenging, b/c you have to think about what make a space appear bigger than it is. This is most obviously answered with light. It is the one aspect that will always make a space feel bigger. 

Here are a few...












^The really amazing thing about this building is that it was made to allow each 'box' apartment to be moved and put into a different place. Think Jenga meets architecture. Genius! 



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