This remarkable bar is constructed of lashed bamboo 'bents', allowing breezes to filter in and up through the roof opening. Most beautiful as a skeleton, before it gets it's shaggy skin. Via Archdaily , where all the world's crazy and wondrous buldings can be seen.

Our associate Chris Fuller has been an afficianado of hexagons for some time. These favorites are from his album Everyday Hexagons

The design lover's website houzz.com recently published our renovation and addition to an old Federal house in Lincoln.

This church on Ashmont Hill, which I've been admiring for the past year as I go to a project nearby, is a remarkably deft and playful expression of the shingle style. The shingles serve every function, even lintels on the sensuous arches. And note the eyebrows with their little teeth swelling out over the windows. Someone loved making this.

The fifth surface - up - is so often forgotten in buildings. Well, money. But these ceilings truly blow me away. First here is the grandaddy of all ceiling masterpieces, at the Alhambra. Via shoesonwires . Below that St. Andrea al Quirinale in Rome, the church that turned me on to Baroque. Via History Things And the contemporary ceiling at the Islamic Art Museum. Stripped down but still mesmerizing. Via Dan at Picasa

Of the many astonishing things about this photo of Basilique Sainte Foy, by Dennis Aubrey , the most striking is the perfect celestial blue of the ceiling - like you are looking up into pure space.

In the Tiny House world, most buildings seem to be focused on cheap and easy. Ricky Newcomer has designed a beautiful little house modelled on Palladio's Villa Rotunda. via Tiny House Design. Below is a sketch of the original, for comparison, from Paintings I Love

For me, books have a resonace as objects that make them haunting in transformation. Books as art, ala Jacqueline Rush Lee and Cara Barer, via darkroastblend, Books as building as art, in Kren's vast stacked book tower in Bologna, via inhabitat , and Books as building - here phone books densely stacked, with a mysterious 'basket-weave' surface via inhabitat

Using endgrain wood for flooring is like walking on butcherblock; dense, springy, gorgeous. This is Kaswell white-stained fir and hemlock. The white stain is sweet because it's so reminiscent of what the wood looks like in its natural state. Also nice that Kaswell is local.

Two Dutch artists have been making community art projects in the slums of Rio, in Brazil. Taking the city as their canvas.
via Favela Painting

Snapshot of an eyebrow window in a little guest house we did on Marthas Vineyard, just completed construction. I love light moving over curved plaster - something to look at when you're gazing at the ceiling.

Dalton Ghetti works with infinite patience and care to create sculptures from pencil graphite- still attached to the pencil. He's good to think of when I'm impatient about some drawing taking too long.

Have to resist becoming font addicts. We get the MyFonts newsletter; once you get into looking at the font details, shapes, geometry, you start noticing the details. Like with so many things, it's easy to start developing expensive tastes. We got our new website font from here- "heroic condensed", designed by Silas Dilworth.

David Warner, owner of City Feed, serving up a big plate of word salad in his rooster persona.

via keepjploopy

The Daily Beast named Tres Gatos one of the top 10 new restaurants in the COUNTRY! We designed the interiors with the talented design firm Hamilton Hughes Design (who also designed the logo, signage and website). The review says one of the biggest pulls is the ambiance! We had a blast working with the owner David Doyle. Get thee to Jamaica Plain for some tapas!