Issue 144
For the Architecturally Inclined and Design Minded
Notations of Enthusiasm is intended to be a resource of inspiration and encouragement for architects, interior designers, and anyone with creative ambitions.
This Week’s Notations:
I have a love hate relationship with plywood interiors. Sometimes they are amazing and other times they are cheap cheats. But what caught my attention here was the exterior. This whole project has a charming bricoleur sense about it…
This house is one part beautiful materials and one part crazy awesome low impact technology and thinking. We all could learn a thing or two from these architects…
Simple strong materials left to speak for themselves and soaring spaces make for an inviting and dramatic home…
Who doesn’t love a solid refurb of an old house? This 1940’s Seattle home got just that. And they’re bring back the red front door…
This is a fascinating photo essay on the Brutalist icon, Barbican Center in London…
This is a fascinating one; a trout farm converted into a Bond villain lair. Not really, but it is striking and described as “a modern space that is minimally articulated”…
A beautiful example of passive solar design…
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