Part good neighbour and part recluse, N is a house with a split personality. The latest from Tokyo architect Jun Aoki, this two-story block adorned with a pitched roof, brick chimney and mullioned windows greets the street amiably. But the heart of the house is a cavernous, underground box completely sequestered from view. While the iconographic upstairs contains just bedrooms, the buried inner sanctum downstairs holds the combined kitchen, dining and living room.

 if you are in or around East London in the next week and a bit we suggest that you pop into Kemistry gallery for their current exhibition ‘Pure Yet Complex’ by Sanderson Bob.

Kemistry is small independent gallery dedicated to exhibiting the work of outstanding designers both past and present, located in Shoreditch, London. 

The recent resurgence of interest in the architecture of the 1960s and 1970s has largely neglected the role of the many experimental publications that were the engine of that intensely creative period. Assembled together for the first time, these remarkable documents offer a unique view of a key period of architectural innovation and challenge today’s architects to provoke a similar intensity. This exhibition tracks the critical function of the little magazine in architecture during these years.

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63.02°, built in a densely residential area in Nakano, Tokyo, is a small building of a SOHO and an apartment for rent. The front road is really narrow, but the next apartment has a big open space between the road and the building. In order to this situation, the facade of 63.02° is inclined 63.02 degrees toward the front road, so that a wide and deep view is acquired. From the large windows that are opened on the inclined facade, you can see neighbour’s cherry tree and the cityscape.

This year, IDS has decided to share some of the action that goes behind the making of the show and isdesign got the exclusives in the next coming days .

There were some interesting ideas and structures in terms of seating at IMM. Yael Mer’s Volume, which is a paper chair shell that is filled with expanding foam that reveals a unique shaped chair was one that grab our attention. Although there wasn’t a lot information about the chair, it was one of our favorites.

Yael Mer is an exciting and humanitarian designer, who is always keeping function on the forefront of all her designs. For more of her work

Paul Williams became renown for designing major buildings such the Los Angeles International Airport and over 2000 homes in Southern California. Many of the most elegant houses in Hollywood were created by Paul Williams.

Williams was orphaned when he was four, and received little encouragement for his artistic talents. Nevertheless, he enrolled in engineering school at the University of Southern California and won an important architecture competition when he was only 25. When he was 28, he opened his own practice.

Williams’ famous ability to perfectly render drafts upside-down was a tactic for dealing with racism – this ability allowed his clients to sit opposite from him and see his rendering right-side-up on their side without having to sit next to the Black architect. Williams never complained on his own behalf, but the sting of racism was something he made sure his family could avoid to a small degree, by empowering his children with good educations and a solid upbringing that had compassion and respect at its core. He once stated that “White Americans, in spite of every prejudice, are essentially fair-minded people who cannot refuse to respect courage and honest effort. They will, therefore, give me an opportunity to prove my worth as an individual.”

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