house of the week 100: Bequia House

Designed by Jake Edgley (Edgely Design) the holiday home is located on a steep forested hillside on the Caribbean island of Bequia. Inspired by traditional Moroccan courtyard houses, where a series of intimate spaces surround water, providing shelter from the sun throughout the day and cooling humidity from the pool creates a sequence of spaces from a delicate balcony entrance suspended high over the treetops.

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The New Orleans Corner Store

If such a seamless resolution of form and use and construction is something we expect of a [building] type, then what are we to do with those crazy corner stores, corner bars, corner restaurants? Seen all over New Orleans (outside the French Quarter and the CBD), they form an easily recognizable family. Resolved, they are not.

Tim Culvahouse in an essay for the Design Observer investigates the architecture and street presence of the humble but social corner store and its role in the restoration of the city of New Orleans.