Yes, Obama is in fact the name of a city in Japan — in the Fukui prefecture — and it’s also where you’ll find the latest architectural project from Suppose Design Office.
As you’ll see in this gallery of photos found on Designboom, the large rectangle residence rests on six stilts. Even though “House in Obama” has no windows, natural lighting inside is provided by a series of skylights.
Suppose Design Office: House in Obama, Fukui, Japan [Designboom]
Following the very successful launch of the Tokyo and New York Art Beat apps for iPhone — the Tokyo version has been a constant presence in the Japan store’s top 10 for paid apps — TAB co-creator Paul Baron gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to create them.
Patrick Macias digs up a few replica gun ads from the early seventies, most of them clearly aimed at children.
Bape has teamed up with Case Study Shop for a series of items, including the Eames Chair pictured.
School Road Vol. 1 is a new photo book from Plancton featuring photography based around the routes taken by school children during their daily commute.
Kyoto-based designer — and SNOW contributor — Bianca Beuttel points us to the Shovel creative gatherings in Osaka.
Thomas Antonietti’s new series of events, COLORS, returns for a second edition at M in Daikanyama, this time with “pink” as the theme.
Shizuoka-based designer Kouichi Okamoto (Kyouei) will have his Water Clock join the “State of Things – Design and the 21st Century” exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel (until May 15).
Information Architects (iA) has started work on the follow-up to its Web Trend Map series, this year to cover the world of Twitter (instead of domains).
Cool, wish it just had several windows. Why do just a square or a rectangle. Looks like an old Mack truck on stilts. Do better than that please.
Give it life will ya
I’m guessing part of it has to do with a desire for privacy — the place looks like it’s in a corner of a street.
lol last time i went to fukkuoka and the rest of kyushu and on the train i saw a place called USA haha XD
The recent elections were certainly good news for that city (Obama) — they were often on the news, or featured in variety shows. Too bad bad there’s no Conan or Leno city in Japan.