Last week the Wallpaper* Design Awards were announced. The best new private house: The Ring House, a retreat in a forest near Tokyo. Designed by Takei-Nabeshima-Architects (TNA), the house is wrapped in rings of glass and wood. Gorgeous.
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Comments (6)
Absolutely beautiful.
This was in Architectural Record's award winners, called Record Houses, last April. I think it was on the cover. Lots of pictures and floor plans.
I think you'd have to workout a lot to walk around in that house in only your underwear.
Gorgeous but would never get a building permit/ C of O. Would totally fail on the energy calculations for a single family residence.
That's one sexy house.
OK, that is one house I would definitely not watch scary movies in. After sundown, I would feel like I was constantly being watched by some lurker/creature in the forest.