Thursday, February 9th, 2012



Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was pretty successful when it came out in 1986.  Since then, the movie has become a classic.  Even though Matthew Broderick’s title character was, well, the star, his movie house wasn’t exactly memorable.  Sure, that thing he rigged up to make it look like he was in bed asleep was pretty [...]

How do you make an ancient structure modern and livable?  Katsuhiro Miyamoto and Associates figured it out with the Hankai House in Akashi City.  The original structure has many old pieces – roof parts and walls that date back to anywhere between 90 and 300 years ago. The original structure was a wooden gate house [...]