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A ‘transparent’ house near Omiya Station in Saitama, Japan created by Tokyo-based practice Yuusuke Karasawa featuring a hexagonally profiled series of alternating  levels, some containing two rooms, some left as open voids, reminiscent of the cellular structure of a bee hive. According to the architect,

Our hope is that this complex, layered network space will become a new architectural form that captures the various activities borne out of today’s informational society, where diversity and order are being demanded at the same time.

All righty then.

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The 10th anniversary issue of Village magazine, on shelves NOW.

Starting life as a Vincent Browne-edited weekly in 2004 the title endured the recession by going  bi-monthly.

However.

Village magazine will go monthly from this month.

Fair play though in fairness.

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Above: the design stylings of the Baya Weaver (1,2); Caddisfly; Compass Termite, Red Ovenbird, Sociable Weaver; swallow; wasp; Australian Weaver ant and the Frank Gehry of ’em all, the Vogelkop Bowerbird (10,11,12).

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Our popular Irish Made Stocking-Fillers space filler returns this Wednesday.

It’s a veritable catalogue of guaranteed Irish quality gift suggestions.

Are you an Irish business selling items online that could handsomely stuff the stockings of Broadsheet readers either here or ABROAD?

Send your Irish-Made stocking fillers (with a brief history of your company) marked ‘Irish-made Stocking Fillers’ to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. No fee just a nuzzle.

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