#Glass Blocks House

[zegalba]

Tadio Ando: Glass Blocks House (1978) Located: Osaka, Japan

[obsessedbyneon]

And then I realised I scanned this building too. Ammersooiseplein, Rotterdam. Two housing buildings with 55 houses and workspaces. 1984 - 1988. Designed by DKV architecten

Scan | Location

[arc-hus]

Guaianaz House, São Paulo, Brazil - Terra e Tuma

[vintagehomecollection]

Designing with Tile, Stone & Brick, 1995

[m1ssvex]

Short haired amity with glasses is my gender ty very much

Btw og designs were by @/TheLavend3rCat on twitter (idk if they have a tumblr sori😔😓)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Are there any glass block fans? B/c if you are, this house is loaded with it. You would think that it was built in the mid-century, but it was built in 1995 in Newport Beach, California. There are 5bds., 6ba., and it’s listed for $6M.

I like these columns and the floor. Notice the glass block pony walls. 

This is interesting- There’s a table and bar in the living room.

Like the neon shooting star.

In the evening the living room has red uplights.

View from the stairs- on the left is a built-in light fixture. I still like the columns- they’re like sculptures. 

Here’s a closer look at the bar in the corner of the living room. 

The dining room with a big glass table and mirror feature wall. You’d have to invest in the Windex & paper towel companies if you own this house.

I don’t care for the swirly brown kitchen accents. The brown kind of interferes with the sleek gray, black & white modern color scheme.

The main bd. Looks like the end tables are built-ins. Doors on the right open to a gigantic en-suite bath.

Look at the larger glass block on the walls in here.

More glass block in the 2nd bath. The toilet is discreetly behind a glass block pony wall.

This bd. has sliding doors over the living room.

Very clean modern lines on the garage.

You can actually skate in here. It’s gigantic.

Along the side of the house is just a cement alley way, I wouldn’t call it a patio.

This is the covered patio. Looks like a living room with a kitchenette.

Putting green. No pool, though. Not much of a garden for $5M.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20301-SW-Cypress-St-Newport-Beach-CA-92660/25477559_zpid/

[mistninja]

Fuck going to uni

[sailor-toni]

I finally saw Glass Onion: A Knives Out Movie

10/10 I loved the movie. The use of applying information early on for a big surprise later is amazing. I am going to be getting this on DVD once Netflix lets it go to disc.

[benetnvsch]

genuinely baffling to me how much of a victim complex some skk shippers have

YEAH yeah aouhghh-

like,, its one thing if people were actively harassing/bothering them but there is no reason for Those Types of skk-ers to be So Upset about other ships just existing (and to just,,doing the same things that they do in terms of relating/redrawing other ships moments to theirs)

I mean come on,, just look the other way,, no need to cry cuz someone chose to make Dazai to kiss different colored pile of pixels today

[glassamphibians]

starting priory

[how2spell-sandwhich]

hey squad if i ever start acting like i’m swatting at a boogeyman that lives in my head rent free just give me a heads up. i have anger management issues and trauma but i do not want to become a person who brings others down and throws tantrums on social media so just tell me lmao

[eats-the-stars]

Still can’t get over my first experience with minecraft. going in knowing next to nothing. survival world. normal difficulty. spawn in the wooded badlands. break a tree. run around. got my little beginner chest with like salmon and bread and wood in it. night falls. mobs everywhere i am so scared. i have auto-jump on. i do not know how to sprint or do a critical hit or do anything besides walk in different directions and i also figured out how to swim. i have no weapons. i get killed. respawn at the spawn point. no items now. scared for my life. manage to get on top of a tree and huddle there until the sun gets up. get down from tree. still have no things. do not know to look for my dropped items i just thought ur stuff was gone when u get killed. stay close to spawn gathering wood and breaking dead bushes for sticks. make crafting bench. figure out how to make an ax. next night i am ready and i make a dirt shelter. just pitch dark listening to monster noises and occasionally breaking the roof to see if it was light yet. NEXT night i decide i need a better shelter and build one around the chest, the tree it is under, and the four torches. i am scared to break the torches because i do not know if this destroys them. i do not know how to make more torches for a stupidly long time. eventually i figure out how to mine. there are also huge ravines everywhere because i’m in the fucking badlands. my first houses are wood. just wood. three-ish stories with big platforms on top so i can see far and also look at the stars. i use trapdoors as rudimentary roof windows because i do not know about glass. i accidentally open and fall through them on and off. this is more terrifying when they dump me outside of my house near zombies. since i am in the badlands...there are no neutral mobs. this means there are no sheep. which means no wool. which means i cannot make a bed. i also have no light in my house except the four torches around the chest. eventually i am brave enough to experiment and break one with my first. i am able to pick it up and i am so happy. i place them sparingly around my house so i can see. i have no idea that monsters can spawn inside houses if ur houses are pitch black. however, by pure luck i made each of my ceilings, and by extent, the floors of the top levels, out of slabs, which monsters cannot spawn on. not that i knew this. i just thought slabs were the “roof making block” since they gave me more head space. eventually i do figure out how to make torches and i am super excited. coal is very valuable to me because i am very scared all the time and i am excited every time i find it mining. which is frequently. i am also in the badlands so i find tons of valuable ores and shit but i am just like “yay! coal!” and “jesus more gold? why do i need all this iron?” i still do not spam my area with torches because i am still in a guarded mindset with them. i make a lighted path between my houses and light the insides sparingly and that is it for my torch use. i have no idea how to farm so when i find, like, potatoes in a minecart i bake them which i will regret later. i toss out wheat seeds as garbage. i also find beet seeds somewhere but i just store them because i do not know how to farm. after a few failed attempts with my very small amount of seeds i stop and wonder if you cannot farm in the badlands. on a related note, when i eventually do find a meadow island and make my first joyous trip back to home base with a sheep i pushed into a boat, i lead it into a nice terracotta paddock and when i wake up and it is a floating piece of mutton and wool i am hit with the realization: i have seen no passive mobs...maybe...because they automatically die in the badlands. i immediately squish this thought. no, that can’t be. nope nope nope. there has to be a logical explanation besides that one. i play detective. at first i actually think the sheep was killed by monsters because can they do that? there’s no creeper crater...the fence is intact...the paddock was lit...could they be shot by skeletons? on the meadow island mobs seemed to ignore them, tho...i google it and wolves can kill sheep. i have yet to see a single wolf but what if...somehow...i fortify the hell out of my paddock and spam it with torches. i read something about the badlands having low light and wonder if sheep need light to survive. but then i recall my trip to meadow island involved stopping at a very small rainforest island where i put a sheep in my mining house. it would take me a while to hear a sheep eating grass, freak out because who broke that block?! (if I knew about Herobrine at this point I can only imagine how scared I would have been in that moment) and then see the grass block that is now dirt and figure out that sheep need to eat grass. my rainforest mining house had grass floor because i thought it was neat. i wildly wonder if grass will even grow on dirt blocks i place in the badlands, i legit cannot remember and it is killing me. and even in the wooded badlands where i see grass naturally it is a duller green. what if the sheep can’t eat it??? in the end i do not risk it and use one of the tiny forest biome sandbars next to my waterside badlands base to build the paddock. originally i had no idea these were forest biome bits i just marveled over how this little like twenty-block island in the middle of my little bay had weirdly green grass. and the oak tree...the leaves were so green. i thought it was because of the water somehow. after seeing my first non badlands/desert biome i realized the truth. more importantly. the sheep could eat this grass. it was definitely green enough. i still watched carefully to see if the grass would regen and was so relieved when it did. i still kept the former terracotta sheep paddock and just filled it with chickens. i knew those fuckers could live anywhere. i went kind of crazy when i first got chickens. they were in my house in the mines they were fucking everywhere. eventually i would also bring over a horse, but i  was tired out from the effort of doing all this with no leads and decided not to bring cows. instead i just spent a lot of time at the village at the meadow island and farmed cows there. that’s also where i did my crop farming. the abundance of resources was fucking killing me after so long in the badlands with next to nothing except so so many ores. and now, suddenly, i had so much food and even BEDS. it was unreal. still, I treated beds and torches as precious resources. i could not forget the days when i could not sleep and had to huddle in my dark houses until morning in the shelter of light from exactly four torches i was terrified to break. fishing rods were also especially valuable to me since that was the first non-zombie food i had access to, and i had to kill spiders for it and at the time i was terrified of spiders because they kept climbing on top of my houses when i was on the roof and scaring the shit out of me. but for a while i thought i would have to live on fish and zombie meat and nothing else. again, i got fucking diamonds from a minecart before i saw my first terrestrial passive mob. diamonds were nothing to me. sheep were the fucking gift from the gods i was unable to obtain until much later in the game. still, my experience makes me wonder if a person’s first spawn-point in minecraft gave them a unique early experience while learning to play the game. like, i did not know how to sprint, land a critical hit, or do basically anything until after i hit that meadow island and i watched a few minecraft youtubers and was like “wait...are they...running? in minecraft?” for real i was playing a different kind of difficulty mode where you don’t know how to fucking run and i didn’t even know it i just thought minecraft was at this level of hard for everyone. but i am also trying to think...is the badlands the worst biome to have for your first spawn? because i don’t feel like it’s the worst but...no villages, no sheep or cows or chickens. no flowers. just dead bushes that drop sticks. i was straight up living on zombie meat and the occasional apple drop from the oaks. since then i’ve had other worlds and i don’t think any other biome was quite as tricky for a starting point. desert was actually okay because i found villages really easy. tundra was fun. a little challenging but not that bad. rainforest is a bit of a pain but doable. there are still animals at least. i mean...is it possible to spawn in a cave system? or the nether? because i feel like that would be worse but i have only ever spawned on the surface and also on land. middle of the ocean might also be tricky for a fresh player. especially since you need wood to craft a boat. and also because beginners sometimes struggle with boats. like my sister swam everywhere because she couldn’t fucking drive the boat. when we played together she sat in the back and refused to be driver for good reason. but...it’s harder to gauge now, since you can only have the “first world beginner minecraft player who doesn’t know shit” experience one time. My sister tried to argue that her first biome was hard because birch forests have so many trees that get in the way when she’s running around and it’s easy for mobs to hide and she loses track of where her house is, but...there were literally so many resources right there when i visited I was like crying because she had so much stuff and i had to like transport everything from a fairly distant set of islands to my base and she was just like “ugh so many sheep they’re so annoying” and she had so much meat and MULTIPLE types of wood and i was so jealous because when i just started i had ONE WOOD and i ate ROTTEN FLESH and getting an apple was so lucky because I didn’t need to risk getting food poisoning the next time I was down to three hunger because I was also constantly hungry back when i was rationing ROTTEN FLESH to survive. and she had BEDS so she could sleep through the nights and i was just like “no! you have it too good!” so yeah...i’m curious to know if anyone else had an interesting first time in minecraft based on what biome they spawned in.

[arc-hus]

Wolterslaan Row house, Ghent - Raamwerk

[vintagehomecollection]

Shoji are miniaturized in Tokyo with this light fixture designed by Chikafusa Sato, who superimposed handmade paper on shoji style grids rather than vice versa.

At Home with Japanese Design, 1990

[quinnfabrayapologist]

Got blocked by JK Rowling on twitter because I asked if she was tired of bullying gay people yet and I wish I was joking

[ghavialis]

I love you poems that need buckets of context I love you art as a genuine expression I love you art that comes with an explanation I love you imperfect lovers felix gonzález-torres I love you songs that aren't made to be famous I love you stories with no moral I love you amateurs I love you first drafts that never get finished because it was about the idea and not the quality I love you pouring yourself into something even as you know it won't be understood I love you genius lyric interviews