A dream: this house in Melbourne! The transparency through frameless windows and intimacy although it is all open space, create a perfect place. With a smart lack of windows on the streetside. Architecture Robert Mills Architects in cooperation with Hassell Architects. Via Yatzer

Acqua chairs. Design Hyundae Kang

Multiples, taken in the Tokyo subway by German photographer Michael Wolf, who just won a first prize in World Press Photo 2010.

The excellent Dutch photo magazine Foam # 22 has just been released with a ‘peeping’ theme. Photos Michael Wolf.

Wolf at six thirty AM. Photo Rolf

My second column about a ‘smart object’ in NRC magazine is about the soil lamp by Marieke Staps. Also today at NRC’s website.

Left: a wonderful worldwide initiative to transform grey spaces into colourful happy places, sponsored by ICI. At the right: smart thinking by Angela Merkel, presenting herself as a colourful character. Her hands betray that she is smug and in control.

Just finished ‘Land of the Brave’, a book recording our 3-monthly trip through the outback. This landscape is at Australia’s West Coast, on a peninsula called Cape Leveque, near Broome. Aboriginals living there, hunt for green turtles, their favourite dish.

Beautiful photo by Marcel van de Vlugt for the hip W-Hotel in Barcelona. Dutch agency …,staat was responsible for part of the wow-effect.

Left is a Japanese apartment building in Katayama, built on 110 m² creating a total floor space of 341 m². The 10 apartments must house midgets for they measure 23 m² to 35 m². At the right is a residence, I guess at block number 352E, in Hozumidai. That is all I know since the architect’s website is Japanese only. Architecture Mitsutomo Matsunami