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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are heading west. The Winklevoss twins, the 31-year-old Harvard grads who are probably best known for their years-long legal fight with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook, have put $18 million of their Facebook settlement cash toward buying a brand new bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills, according to a report today out of TMZ .
Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene
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L’architecture californienne par Julius Shulman
Wood is both universal and unique. No other material is as deeply embedded in the history, culture and life of humans worldwide as wood, yet every single piece of wood is unique. The color tone, texture, durability, flexibility and even sound qualities of different tree species have puzzled and challenged artists, architects, designers, builders and artisans for thousands of years. Still today, nothing matches wood in versatility or beauty, so it is great to see how today’s designers and architects continue to face the challenge of wood, and use it creatively to interpret sleek, modern designs. They use wood to meet their current needs and desires for which wood is ideally suited. People seek calm surroundings, simplicity and minimalism to soothe their frayed nerves and to counter the constant visual overload they face.
For The Love of Wood
Certainly one of the most eye-catching out of the over 50 national pavilions at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale is the one representing Russia. Dubbed "easily the most popular pavilion in the Giardini" by World Architects, Russia's pavilion shocks its visitors as every surface inside of it is covered in QR codes. Visitors are encouraged to enter the innovation city called Skolkovo and use iPads to decode the concept for the actual Skolkovo, which is Russia's futuristic city-in-planning (their equivalent of a Silicon Valley) which will be located near Moscow. Grigory Revzin, commissioner of the pavilion, stated: “Skolkovo is a high-tech project, it’s all about innovation, about new level of living, about how science and modern technologies come into human’s life. That is why our exposition is exceptional one this year. We have created a space that is physical and virtual at the same time.”
Russia's Futuristic QR Code Covered Pavilion
Andrée Putman, noir sur blanc
Disparition. L’architecte d’intérieur, figure de l’élégance à la française et dont le damier était devenu le drapeau, est morte, samedi, à 87 ans. Andree Putman le 1 avril 2006. - Photo Catherine Gugelmann.
first image 'sliding door house' by naoi architecture and design office, ibaraki prefecture, japan image © hiroshi ueda all images courtesy of naoi architecture and design office in a quaint neighborhood in ibaraki prefecture, overlooking a green field of sweet potatoes, is the 'sliding door house' for a couple and their children. the architects, naoi architecture and design office , designed the home around a double-height living room on the first floor that contains a very large sliding glass door connecting the interior with the yard and community path that brings neighbors and visitors and provides a varied social life. the upstairs contains the private bedrooms, cantilevering slightly into the garden to bring the owners closer to the rural landscape as the mass shades the social functions below. appliances and lighting were kept to a minimum to reduce resources, relying more on orientation for lighting and temperature regulation.
