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  Nendo wraps timber grid around plant-filled balconies of Japanese office

  dezeen.com - Lizzie Crook

  Plant-lined balconies and a grid-like facade wrap around the glass Kojimachi Terrace office in Tokyo, which Nendo has designed "to bring the outside …

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  Architectural Drawings: 10 Cabin Plans for Minimalist Living - Architizer Journal

  Architizer - Eric Baldwin

  The architects of these cabins aimed to frame and celebrate nature through raw yet refined designs. Sign up to be informed when the next One Drawing Challenge competition opens for submissions. Be sure to check out the incredible work by this year’s extraordinary Winners and Commended …

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  Skyline House / Terry & Terry Architecture

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  This project is a rebuild of an existing post 1991 fire-storm house. Situated high on top of the Eastbay mountain range overlooking the city of …

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  Muji’s New Prefab Tiny House Is Just As Beautifully Designed As Its Home Goods

  apartmenttherapy.com - Mia Nakaji Monnier

  You may know Muji for its beautiful, minimally designed home goods, ranging from simple notebooks to essential oil diffusers to electric kettles …

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  A Charming Wooden House Sits On The Rooftop Of An Apartment Building

  homedit.com - Simona Ganea

  From up close this looks more or less like a typical little house, nice and cozy but also very bright and open. Take a few steps back and you realize …

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  In This Manhattan Apartment, Every Room Is a Testament to Japanese Tradition

  The New York Times - By THESSALY LA FORCE

  THE ORIGINAL IDEA wasn’t very ambitious: a tearoom in an empty apartment. Though not just any tearoom: This would be a tearoom that served as a work of art. The artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, 70, had made tearooms before. There is one in his Chelsea studio in New York City; in 2014, he created …