Can you spot the white spider on this beautiful wall? This style of "patterned" wood working is called naguri (名栗) and originated in the cutting patterns made by carpenters in pre-modern Japan using adzes. Few have this skill these days, so handmade examples are rare and expensive, but now it can be imitated with machine tools. I took this photo in Kyoto. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7348a4bff1ca33fbf897a8a1ca44265b9cd21ecaf852452d8a49d00c7c4320ff.file
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On Instagram the Naturalplastercompany shares one way of copying moulds and making profiles for running moulds for your own projects. Any normally handy human being can do figure this out and run well enough for personal projects.
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Hidden garden in possibly the finest home in Japan. Takayama City, Gifu. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8e51600d18d78ad29cfdce6a0debff45d15af7fc25611a76085f407b07d2727f.file
The 1905 proposal of Slussen between SΓΆdermalm and Gamla Stan in Stockholm (maybe one of the finest urban scenes in the world). Compare with what they actually got after the latest rebuild. Shared by @arkuppror and @michael_diamant in Sweden. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/cfd6a237ca3c7b13546978c7d7e9e9a6b922078aac84b3daa102c69cd247179f.file
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It is anathema to progressive ideology to abandon an idea just because it has been unable to realize it even after repeated attempts for over a century.
β€œIt is literally against the law almost everywhere in the United States to build the kind of places that Americans themselves consider authentic and traditional.” β€” James Howard Kunstler https://hell.twtr.plus/media/904e7617f3869858542d3ac56a4f9f174cb6dfac77c746af1b29270cd33f134d.file
β€œIf 'hierarchical complexity' is replaced by 'tedious simplicity' then boredom or depression ensues; if it is replaced by 'incomprehensible chaos' then the result is fear and anxiety.” β€” Malcom Millais, 2009 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a2c90d84fc2ffd8a58d47cddcc84d88a09e8a21791aba4caa09f55a6213b2459.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0dc6d2124a9e8d03eb47dad940737e94dc404bcebf975dc22d8a10ab06c5cf55.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b05f31badb2861a575f563197dbe714dc14818a988620548af1bcabc55831d97.file