The Transforming Apartment: 24 Rooms In One
When viewing architect Gary Chang’s Hong Kong dwelling in any of it’s stationary modes, it looks like an ordinary modern studio apartment. But hidden behind the surface of the current room is a whole house worth of spaces. Compressed ... in: Architecture, Design, Home & Garden, Trends In Asia" Architecture, Design, Home & Garden, Trends [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 18:01:51
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Ackert Architecture’s Monier Residence
kimberly ackert, ackert architects, monier design commission, monier house, sustainable architecture, wind turbine, solar water heaters, ... for the “Monier Design Competition” in Australia. Nestled amid idyllic green environs in Perth, the warm wooden structure features an earthy modern aesthetic and utilizes a variety of sustainable [more...]
Date: 2008-08-15 00:04:02
M house / Architecture W
Architects: Architecture W Location: Nagoya, Japan Project Team: Michel Weenick, Yukiko Iwanaga, Brian White Client: ... the design of the house. A hybrid structural system made up of simple reinforced concrete, concrete ... of the house - allow the design to accommodate a variety of site and program conditions while also [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 19:00:43
Stunning Architectural Project : The Queen Anne House by Blip Design
Designed by architect Jim Burton of Blip this recently built house is located in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood ... remodel with a two-pronged approach, and an affinity for two very different genres. This amazing house has 4 bedroom/3.5 bathroom, and 4322 sq.ft. is is currently for sale at $2.4 million [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 17:49:14
Wooden Weekend Retreat by HUT Architecture
Wooden houses with a clean nature around is a great place to have the perfect weekend ... Architecture designed such contemporary wooden house. Here is what they say about it: An existing 1950’s bungalow in a beautiful setting on the South Coast all but rebuilt to create a sustainable [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 13:32:35
History at a 30 Second Glance
Interior designer Kelly Robson did this delicate architectural pen and ink sketch of The President's House in Philadelphia (click to enlarge) ... Association are good places to visit. Shown above is Irish-born architect James Hoban's White House design ... years.Often called "the first White House," the dwelling was owned by financier Robert Morris who [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 17:53:00
Gene Leedy-Designed House For Sale in Winter Haven, FL
From Martie Lieberman at Modern Sarasota... There is an important Gene Leedy-designed "Sarasota School of Architecture" house for sale. It is located on Drexel Avenue in the heart of "Leedy-Land" in Winter Haven, Florida. Check the slide show and floor plan here. More details after the jump... Featured in Sarasota Modern [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:23:03
Chit-Chat with Artists: Natali from Naty Designs - If Creators Can Make Great Stuff, Why Can’t Maxis?
When Naty wrote me she wanted to make an interview, I thought - what is this site? ... . Spring4Sims: Can you tell us why have you decided to make houses? Do you just like the modern design ... : I love modern houses, architecture, furnishing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 17:12:00
Elvis’ Honeymoon Cottage, Mid-Century Homes, and Real Estate Development
Elvis? Elvis is someone Marlow Harris writes about on her 360 Digest blog, but I couldn’t resist ... in Connecticut. Charles Chips are another ’60’s icon. charles chips Mid-century Modern Architecture ... of its design. The house was featured in LOOK magazine, a mid-century pictorial, shortly after the home [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 23:24:13
desire to inspire kitchen
One of my favorite blogs is Desire to Inspire. Hubby and I would often drool (and salivate) on the beautiful architectural designs of every house they feature. He would often check ... really spacious and very modern. This second one is my favorite because despite its modern [more...]
Date: 2008-07-19 03:21:39
Role of Real Estate Players in Dream Home Planning and Execution
by katie George A home is where you spend your life, your own place to calm down and revitalize yourself. A sweet home is dream of every people ... be when playing with siblings and dolls during childhood or making a sand house on beach. Sometimes people ... a dream house. You don’t have to worry about the architecture, designs, construction, furnishing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 17:06:13
Role of Real Estate Players in Dream Home Planning and Execution
by katie George A home is where you spend your life, your own place to calm down and revitalize yourself. A sweet home is dream of every people ... be when playing with siblings and dolls during childhood or making a sand house on beach. Sometimes people ... a dream house. You don’t have to worry about the architecture, designs, construction, furnishing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 17:07:01
ARTechnic's Stunning Shell House: Exterior And Interior
Japanese architecture firm ARTechnic has designed and completed this unusual- but beautiful and minimalist- concrete ovoid home in Karuizawa, Japan. Built in two sections, around a fir tree, it is nestled in a forest and is as amazing inside ... about the home on Dezeen, including floorplans, how the initial plans changed over time and building [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 08:00:00
Historic Hubbard House Gets Its Landmark Designation
The Hubbard House, a Rare Dutch-American Farmhouse in Gravesend, Brooklyn, was designated an individual landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) on Tuesday ... . “This group of designations reflects the rich variety of architectural and historical layers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 22:55:16
Gingerbread architecture for all
Date: 2008-12-16 02:31:00
Maison De La Lumiere in Bologna, Italy
Whole Italy is filled with a stunningly beautiful old Mediterranean architectural style, but not the house you’re about to see ... of contemporary design that stays far from any Italian stereotypical styles you’ve seen. With a stunning open space ground floor that leads to the crystal blue swimming pool and featuring modern [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 14:05:25
Open Box 2 House by Feldman Architecture
San Francisco based Feldman Architecture were involved in a total renovation of this modern hilltop house ... of this house from an uninspired 2-storey residence into a sophisticated, modern dwelling. With eco-friendly principles guiding the design direction, elements that once appeared dark and unwelcoming were given [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 14:20:17
K2LD and The House At Astrid Hill
K2LD is a great independent architecture company that have some real treasures in their design portfolio ... it the Sensibility Of Architecture and this is what their website says about it; “The senses mold the intricate ... . From this picture you can see all the clean lines and linear graphic forms that the [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 10:00:50
Book Review: Exit-Architecture
Exit-Architecture: Design Between War and Peace (2008) by Stephan TrübySpringerPaperback, 113 pagesThe notion that architects design spaces ... for the reconstruction of a space in House of Commons to its pre-WWII state, even though it would [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 23:30:00
Help Me Strip My Foreclosure
Remove Yourself—Candiria Touch what you can’t have While i have what you can’t touch for now My friend, ... and what is a fixture of real estate. In architectural design, it is possible to create construction drawings ... stripped the house before they left. I mention all this because a reader sent me a Craigslist [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 20:30:53
Flex 1 Kitchen: Elegance Simplified By Strato Cucine
stratocucine-kitchen-flex-1 Modern architecture does not hesitate to try the unthinkable and the most fascinating of designs no matter what ... design house Strato Cucine follows along the same lines in modernistic and fashionable looks in creating their new line, the Flex 1 Kitchen. Architect Simone Micheli materialises Marco Gorini’s bold [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 14:52:28
Contour Mountain Home Design Plans
Built on the light sloping highland, this house designed dynamic ... Architects. Post from: Architectural Media | Home Decor Ideas [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 00:40:57
Single Women Buying Homes - The Phenomenon
I was taking a look at my list of San Francisco clients that are looking for a home or have recently purchased a home and I realized ... twice as many homes as single men Single women make up more than one-third of the growth in real ... houses, condos, TIC’s, lofts, fixer-uppers, new construction, Victorian architecture, modern design [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 09:47:01
Pinon House
Rick Sommerfeld (the3rdspace) and Rob Pyatt are no newbies when it comes to turning a humble abode from the mid 20th century into a 21st century work of art. Their latest project Pinon House, is yet another tribute to fine form in modern architecture. The design duo gave an unassuming Boulder, Colorado habitat a major overhaul via [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 19:21:44
Maison De La Lumiere in Bologna, Italy
Maison De La Lumiere in Bologna, Italy December 08th, 2008 | Category: Furniture Whole Italy is filled with a stunningly beautiful old Mediterranean architectural style, but not the house you’re about to see. Designed by architect Duilio Damilano, Maison [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 10:05:25
An Investment in the Future of Noe Valley
Date: 2008-11-14 21:32:10
Millbare House in London
Modern architecture and construction works with a philosophy of maximizing resources and yet adding that minimalist design to capture elegance and understated class. The Millbare contemporary house in North-West England captures the essence ... us if you like it. - via Momoy a Millbare House in London [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 20:54:34
SeaO2 : Ecological Housing Project
Today with lot of environmental developments happening world over like global warming, energy crisis, lifestyle changes, ... . More and more architectural designs are using digital technologies with respect to modeling, simulation, evaluation ... is an experimental ecological housing project. The project poses an alternative to current plans for Tel Aviv [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 08:02:54
Hello World: Here comes Biznik LA
This morning I had the privilege of being interviewed by Colleen Rice Nelson for 45 minutes on her Blogtalkradio show, Freelancer Forum ... . His architectural designs quite literally turn structure inside out. “I invite all potential ... and work spaces to visit me in Morongo Valley, California. My next open house is late January [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 01:16:15
Bigger Than A Breadbox And Much Cuter: weeHouses by Alchemy Architecture
weeHouses are super cute, efficiently designed, boxy, little shippable pre-fab homes by Alchemy Architecture. They make great vacation homes, second homes, work or office space, starter homes, even multiple housing developments. Run by Alchemy architects in St. Paul, Minn., weeHouse streamlines the entire process [more...]
Date: 2008-06-07 13:52:00
Book Review: Architecture - A Synoptic Vision
Architecture - A Synoptic Vision: A Prospectus of Developments from 1900 to Today (2008) ... fairly obvious choices. Ending with Toyo Ito's design for the Metropolitan Opera House under ... Wright's prairie houses, but Mies's Brick Country House project exploded the constraints that Wright [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 14:30:00
Unique Pigeon Towers of Iran
"QUANTUM SHOT" #473 Article by Rachel & Avi Abrams, link Pigeons Get the Best Architecture... Who Knew? ... . Little wonder then that the designs for even the most ignoble of buildings - a pigeon house - strike ... and cucumber fields... However, in modern times chemically produced fertilizers have drastically [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 07:13:34
Head North: Renzo Piano's Academy of Sciences Opening
A project that sister Curbed SF has dutifully been tracking, ... it the "crowning achievement of sustainable architecture," Inhabitat notes the project will house 38,000 ... feeling jealous, a reminder that more Piano designs for LA are forthcoming: The architect is doing [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 22:06:55
Newest Architectural Jewel To Join Lower Mill Estates Is A $382,000. Doghouse
Yep, it's true. The modern dog palace has been commissioned by an unidentified female surgeon, for her pampered pooches, two Great Danes, ... the unusual and amazing Orchid House, Watermark House, Sundance Villa and more.Now, a $382,469.oo USD dog house will join these.architect Andy RamusAndy Ramus Design StudioIt has been designed by leading [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 08:00:00
Adaptive Architecture (4): Current Adaptive Building Technology
We continue our serialization of Erich Hunting’s landmark essay on a ‘peer to peer’ adaptive architecture, adapted to contemporary needs, ... , it is perhaps best epitomized in the design of Phillip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 11:20:00
Custom-Built Homes
.fullpost{display:inline;}I love to browse on house floor plans online ... . In American style architecture I am quite partial to Frank Lloyd's Wright Prairie Houses. Wright's rule ... . Various companies have different styles and approaches in making their designs and floor plans [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 00:26:00
Expensive places to live in Fort Worth
Everybody is somebody’s baby, and every house is somebody’s home ... is increasingly uncool. This home is 2.6 million, in the Camp Bowie area. This home is priced at $2.6 ... contentental architecture to rambling cubist designs that say “welcome back to the 1950’s.” [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 17:48:12
Sydney Opera House Architect Jorn Utzon Dies, But Controversy and Troubles Continue
A sad story from over the long weekend, as it's been announced that Pritzker Prize winning architect, Jorn Utzon, ... , are said to be in dispute over the plans. "It's getting messed up (by other architects)," Jeppe Utzon told architectural webzine Building Design of the planned renovations. "It will be hard [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 10:00:59
Floating House in Ontario, Canada
If you ever thought that building a home on water is easy stuff, you got that wrong. There’ ... Magazine, who bring you the latest news in Interior Design, Decorating, Furniture and Architecture [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 08:05:49
Storybook Architecture
Mona Vale, Christchurch. Jan 2009. Ajr The Mona Vale Gatehouse (top image) is one of my favourite Christchurch houses ... for Frederick Waymouth in 1899-1900. Designed by Christchurch architect, J.C Maddison in the Arts & Crafts style, it sold to Annie Townend in 1905. It was she who renamed it Mona Vale – after her mother’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 18:00:00
Many of you have seen interior designer Vanessa De Vargas's Venice Beach, California home before: ... :"The architecture here is relatively plain, and when I moved in ten years ago the house was sort ... of forced me to choose lighter furniture. I moved almost everything in the house to my retail business [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 15:30:00
The Dubai Ziggurat: 1 million living souls in a pyramid, entirely self-contained
Pyramids and ziggurats represent an oddly survivable form of architecture ... to ancient ingenuity are still standing after thousands of years. Timelinks, a design firm based in Dubai, has unveiled plans to make a pyramid of its own — one that could house a million people [more...]
Date: 2008-08-25 20:46:21
Ugly as Sin (Mollie)
Ugly as Sin (Mollie) There’s a good book on church architecture with that title and it is woefully adequate for describing way too many houses of ... traditional image of all — a Gothic belltower that could be on a medieval cathedral — over more modern designs. This comes at a time when many new churches are being built with all the charm of a Ho [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 21:10:05
For the Frank-o-phile: Architecture Fantasy Camp
If you've got a closet Howard Roark on your gift list this holiday, ... and Studio, Robie House and Unity Temple. The end product: campers create frameable floor plans ... do not design prairie-style homes on the exterior," said Preservation Trust Director of Education Jan [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 03:39:31
The Walsall Waterfront, architectural gems of Walsall UK
When SMC Alsop won the planning permission in December 2006 for the first phase of a strategic framework plan for the 17 acre site in Walsall, ... modern style designs (0) Aqua Tower Hotel and Residential in Chicago by Studio Gang (0) Garden and Sea weekend house by Takao Shiotsuka Atelier (0) The audacious Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima (2) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 15:55:53
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