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Tadao Ando was born in Osaka, Japan in 1941. Unlike most contemporary architects, Ando did not receive any formal architectural schooling. Instead, he trained himself by reading and traveling extensively through Africa, Europe, and the United States. In 1970 he established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates. Ando rejects the rampant consumerism visible within much of today’s architecture. He responds both ...

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Having a pool (with a swing no less) in the living room is one fantasy many of us could only dream about. But for Evelyn McMurray Van-Zeller, this fantasy has turned into a reality. In 1995, Ms. McMurray Van-Zeller was living in Europe when she inherited the Manhattan home from her brother. “You feel like you’re on a permanent holiday,” ...

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The first bridges were made naturally with fallen logs across streams or stones in rivers. The first bridges made by humans were probably made from wooden logs or planks and eventually stone. Now bridges are made with a wide variety of materials including iron and concrete allowing these vital transport structures to also become technological and architural wonders.

Here are a collection of some of our favourite for this weeks wallpaper Wednesday.

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WiFi is everywhere, floating and whirling around us somehow, but where is it really? In Immaterials: Light painting WiFi, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussenuse a rod of blinking lights to visualize signal strength in their college town.

In order to study the spatial and material qualities of wireless networks, we built a WiFi measuring rod that visualises WiFi signal strength as a bar of lights. When moved through space the rod displays changes in the WiFi signal. Long-exposure photographs of the moving rod reveal cross sections of a network’s signal strength.

The stronger the signal strength, the more lights that illuminate in that specific spot, updating as the walker/carrier moves. Then using long-exposure photographs, the lights are recorded for beautiful results. Super simple concept, yet very effective. See the device in action in the video below.

via: Flowing Data

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Konnex is a modular system of shelves in cubes that fit together creating larger systems. But what distinguishes the work of Florian Gross is that they fit into a kind of overlap that creates other cubes and means you can change your design to suit your space. via: www.pristina.org

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‘Dead Drops’ a new project by Berlin based artist Aram Bartholl. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. Aram is ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on ...

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Dutch architects “Most Architecture” were commissioned by Amsterdam company “Brandbase” to design a temporary space for their new office location. The client wished to furnish the space with recycable material wish gave the architects the idea to use pallets. The pallet structure is designed in such a way that besides being merely a workplace, the entire element invites you to ...

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