#architectural spaces

[juliaknz]

WIEL ARETS ARCHITECTS ACADEMY OF ARTS, 1993 Maastricht, Netherlands Image © Wiel Arets Architects

[stone-cold-groove]

Your summer reading list: Personal Space. The Behavioral Basis of Design. Robert Sommer - 1969.

[luetta]

[rienafoutre]

[389]

The Villa des Orangers, luxury five star hotel is located in the heart of Marrakech and is a true haven of peace. Everything has been carefully chosen to make your stay relaxing and sophisticated: an elegant decoration, delicious cuisine with Mediterranean and Moroccan flavours, a large garden and lush courtyards, three swimming pools, a traditional Moroccan Hammam, massage rooms, beauty salon, fitness, an open bar to enjoy a mint tea with Moroccan pastries during the day.

[ai-dream]

[vintagehomecollection]

The space under the stairs in a London studio has been turned into a small jewel of a kitchen.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

[keferon]

THE NEW CHAPTER OF MISTAKES ON MISTAKES UNTIL IS OUT AND YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS~~~~~~

Spoilers for ch 74 below >:)

Head in hands. And then they all happened to be self sacrificial idiots.

Infinitely delighted by the fact that Optimus automatically decided to catch whoever was falling and only look who that was afterwards. 100/10. Peak Optimus writing.

[rherlotshadow]

Inside the ancient church of St John's in Inglesham, dating back to the 13th century, and its many layers of paint.

[writergeekrhw]

Hello Sir! I hope you are doing well! l am trying to solve a bit of a mystery about the design of the doors on the Ferengi homeworld? They are shorter than the Ferengi are tall and plenty of Deep Space Nine fans, myself included, have always wondered why the doors were chosen to be designed that way. Do you happen to know why the doors were designed that way? Production wise or even in universe wise, or both? Thanks for the work you've done on the series and for taking the time to read this. :)

If I remember correctly, when we first described a Ferengi home, Ira and I said it looked more like a burrow or a hobbit house than a human home, and production design came up with the low round doors based on that.

For the Ferengi, the fact that a low round door makes entering awkward would be a feature, not a bug. Ferengi don't want just anyone barging into their homes uninvited (and without paying the entry fee).

Also their homes likely harken back to ancient designs that helped keep predators out, since we felt that Ferengi didn't evolve as apex predators. Their place in the ecological pecking order was probably about that of Terran ferrets or raccoons, and their architecture reflects that.

And that's all I remember about Ferengi doors.

[galina]

Happened to have the back room in the Ivy House to myself one afternoon recently, a truly gorgeous little space

[humanoidhistory]

The transonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Virginia, built in 1939.

[ghostlywriterr]

Abandoned Villa Sbertoli. Tuscany, Italy

[rienafoutre]

[389]

Untitled (Habitat '67 in Montreal) Alexander Ross

[ai-dream]