great minds think...

This morning I woke up to a NYTimes architecture alert: A Concrete-and-Glass Town House in Barcelona.  I secretly love when the alerts take me to the Great Homes and Destinations section...it's always something pretty fabulous.

Anyway, I was struck by the glass flooring in this house, which is exactly what I had designed in my studio project, but have recently had to remove due to structural restrictions. This photo makes me want to bring it back and figure out an alternative solution to the fact my building would instantly fail in compression and buckling. this is, if it were even possible to construct. oops.

The architect describes this as an open-air "internal terrace" - which was exactly my motivation for the unique flooring material too.  Bummer. I've got to make it work!! Maybe if I add those cable suspensions, my critics would believe it to be structurally sound? Would be a great rendering!

See more of this "Great Home and Destination" here.  Please note "large wine library" in the kitchen?! nice, nice.

Ok. Blogging during finals week??

bye!! see you on the flip side.