Mongolians do not give their horses names, rather, they refer to them by their color. There are more than 300 words in Mongolian to refer to the color of a horse.
Moreover, most of those words are just compounds or derivatives, such as those you could make in English as well.
Akasaka Shinichiro - Ordinary House, Sapporo 2010. More on Architizer.
“I wanted to design a house with universal factors not controlled by trends. I can say this house is an ‘ordinary house’ in our time, having a simple form and little mechanism.”
Amazing piece.
SUBTILITAS: tonttu
Another amazing minimal renovation, this time a smoke sauna in Soini, Finland by one of my favorite young practices, Lassila Hirvilammi.
The original structure is an old 19th century smoke sauna, which was converted to a granary in the 1940’s. The new renovation restores the building’s…
I can’t hold it anymore, this is just too awesome. Wow!
300&65 Ampersands: Farewell & Goodbye!
Dear fellow ampersand lovers,
A great time has been had finding all manner of ampersands to present here – skinny, ostentatious, plain but dependable and leafy ones. There were ampersands that were elegant, graceful and serene but that didn’t leave out the stumpy, …
Goodbye and have fun in your life.
"when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."
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