Close to perfection

The office of dutch advertising company Nothing, designed by Alrik Koudenburg and Joost Van Bleiswijk. It's all cardboard, people. So beautiful my jaw dropped like a cartoon character. Photos: Joachim Baan. Via CR

Lego + architecture

Why not combine your childhood nostalgia with your present passion. Sip your pastis while you build some of the architectural masterpieces of the world, in Lego! Available here.

Summer house

This cabin by the fjord is quite stunning in it's simple interior and swooshing exterior. Norway can be pretty sometimes.. Now it's just rain rain rain..

Summer house, Hardanger, Norway
Architects: Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen

Pool with a view

See, I'm better off not knowing that people live like this..This white cube avec pool are designed by argentinian architects adamo-faiden .

Shigeru Ban

He's the kind of architect that make you drool, and wish you were able to do what he does.

Shigeru Ban builds both magnificent lasting buildings, but also works with more temporary buildings and structures. He works with what is available and often with what is recycable. He's done amazing structures using papertubes, and nomadic museums- built of containers.

He designed shelters for refugees in Rwanda made of papertubes. This led him to do temporary housing - log cabins with papertube walls for disaster victims, first after the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, where he also built a paper church, and later in Turkey and India. (The second picture is from the cabins in India)

When building the apartment building where he lives, in Hanegi Forest, Tokyo(first picture)- he didn't cut down a single tree-but worked around it.

His website has plenty of photos from all the amazing projects, do check it out.

Nederland Dans Theater

There is one thing that is really annoying me about this new, and close to perfect, opera house here in Oslo.(architects: snøhetta)

The time of strolling down five minutes before a opera or ballet without booking a ticket, like I could in the old opera, is over. I suddenly have to take in the effects of getting a bigcitymonsteroperahouse.. 

Yesterday they released the tickets for next season, and besides some contemporary pieces on the small stage, I haven't been able to get a single ticket the previous seasons. So now I was prepared, hungry for ballet, in front of the computer. Deciding what i I want to see next winter is so grown up and strange to me, but.. 

The choice : NDT in November, I can't wait to see this company that made my jaws drop to the floor as a kid (then seeing them on TV) and I finally get to see the big stage in that house on the water.