Here is a house in Santa Barbara made from Clinker Bricks… on a stone foundation. Clinker bricks are the bricks that were on the outside of the stack when they fire up a bunch of bricks in the oven. They are called clinkers because the “clink” more than regular bricks because they got closer to [...]
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Concrete bunker house/shop
Posted in architecture, tagged Brutalist house, Bunker house, Concrete modernist, modernism. brutalism, modernist house, Monterey Modern on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
interesting brutalist modern bunker house I got a photo of recently. It is concrete… with oxide red steel casement windows and a big steel roll up door. BIG ocean views looking the other way… plus a nice old cypress tree. zero landscape… just weeds and brush. Hope they have radiant heat in there! very [...]
best trailer park in the world…
Posted in architecture, art, city planning, tagged container housing, cool trailer, cool trailer park, pre fab housing, prefab, prefab modern, recycled housing, shipping container housing on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this trailer court in Holland… damn! The trailers seem to be stacked on old containers set on end… with some I-Beams here and there. Wow. Good luck getting this one through your Community Development dept! How do we get cities to allow this type of creativity in the USA? It becomes [...]
Bicycle Sink by Benjamin Bullins
Posted in architecture, art, bicycles on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A friend sent me the link to Benjamin Bullins art. I particularly like this Bathroom sink he designed.
What is truly cool?
Posted in architecture, art, bicycles, california cultural anthropology, tagged advertising history, beat culture, beatnik, Bicycle culture, Bike Snob NYC, california modernism, cool, cool advertising, cool hunting, design history, Eric Meyer, Eric Meyer Simple, gerald rupp, gerry rupp, hip, hipster, History of Cool, History of Modernism, History of Simple Shoes, Jazz age, Lucille Meyer, Lucy Meyer, modernism, morro bay, morro bay history, Simple, simple shoes, trend forecasting, trendy, what is cool on March 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This is a really long post. You may want to get a cup of coffee first. You may actually not care at all… but it would have been my mom’s birthday a couple of days ago… So I thought I would write about her… and the concept of the word “cool”. Lucy… in Florence Italy… [...]
crooked street striping… on purpose in Hawaii
Posted in architecture, city planning, surfing, tagged Hawaii, hawaiian modern, interesting stop sign, island home, Modernism in hawaii, street design, traffic calming on March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So I went to Hawaii and all you get is this odd photo. On the big island of Hawaii… in South Kona… the Public Works guys have these crazy crooked stripe situations… before stop signs that are hard to see before you get to them. Notice how the stop sign is just sort of around [...]
My new favorite staircase in all the world.
Posted in architecture, tagged amazing stairs, cool staircase, crazy stairs, great staircase, interesting staircase, spiral staircase, staircase design, the movement on December 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So I have a staircase fetish. As fetishes go… this is not so bad I suppose. I also love books. So naturally I especially like staircases and bookshelves… and have written about them in the past on this blog. So today I found this picture of this staircase in a Portuguese Bookstore. Holy crap [...]
The unknown Modernist… and the first modern A-frame
Posted in architecture, california cultural anthropology, city planning, tagged a frame home, a frame house, a-frame, architect rupp, Beat Generation, beatnik, beatnik architecture, california modernism, case study homes, case study houses, Early modernist, Frank Lloyd Wright, gerald rupp, gerry rupp, john etenza, modern architecture, modernism, modernist, Morro Bay architecture, Richard Neutra, rudolph schindler, the movement, Warren Leopold on December 2, 2010 | 9 Comments »
UPDATE… Jan 2012… I’ve discovered that Rudolph Schindler built an A frame house in 1936… So this post is somewhat misleading. Sorry about that. Needless to say… Schindler is probably my favorite architect in the world anyway… here is the post from a year ago below. Click the link just above to see Schindler’s aframe. [...]
Good wrought iron work is rare
Posted in architecture, carmel by the sea, city planning, happiness, tagged carmel, carmel by the sea, fence, fence detail, iron fence, iron gate, spanish colonial revival architecture, spanish details, the movement, wrought iron, wrought iron gate on December 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Look carefully at this wrought iron. Move around the window view bars if you can’t see the whole image. It is a small very small fence on a building in Carmel by the Sea, CA. Awesome work. Such amazing detail at the top…each little dragon head different than the next. It is inspiring [...]
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