house planning
As an Architecture student, I had a whole collection of architectural magazines and books that I find very inspiring in my studies ... that you need in finding the perfect plan of that dream home whether it is an American, Mediterranean ... when it comes to form and function. You won’t be paying more for an architectural drawing plan since [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 22:25:12
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Monday, Monday
My weekly page update:Langara College Library in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by Teeple Architects.This week's book review is Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections ... network for architectural guided tours during which current architectural developments, urban [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 05:00:00
Opposition to demolition of building near New Acropolis Museum
I am not entirely clear why this is a news item again - as nothing seems to have changejd significantly in the case since the decision by Greece’s ... Marcus Binney, Architecture Correspondent Plans to demolish a handsome Art Deco house that will block ... member of the Athens Academy who worked in Paris, Istanbul and Dublin. The house was initially [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 13:52:41
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
The Trick Garage & Wacky Windows
The Pugh + Scarpa Vail Grant Residence is old school in terms of architecture, but I’m not so sure I’ve ever talked about it here ... from renderings or models? Well, with this house I like the plans as much as the finished product ... ) but I had a little family emergency (nothing big). Tags: cool house plans, cool renderings, lake views [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:00:12
Book Review - The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock, by Steven Jacobs (available on Amazon USA and UK.) ... with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans especially made for this publication [more...]
Date: 2008-06-11 13:19:09
Year in Review, 2008 Architecture Awards: Jean Nouvel, Ennis House, and Building of the Year
As 2008 comes to a close, here's a look (and in some cases, an update) to the more compelling and fantastic stories that stood out this year ... , is slowly being restored.) UPDATE: Well, not the best news. "There are no plans to open the house ... Never Move Past the Rendering Stage: It was French architect Jean Nouvel’s leafy green giant [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 22:30:12
An Investment in the Future of Noe Valley
Date: 2008-11-14 21:32:10
Steps to build a dream home
Follow these 7 rules to get past the hurdles and start on the path to successfully build a custom, dream home: 1 ... s) for your neighborhood before you finalize your house plans and break ground on your project. Also, be sure to obtain architectural approval if required. 5. Set a Realistic Budget: Accurate budget [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 13:03:03
Beautiful Grounds
Diane’s post on Mapping the Ton had me thinking about settings and how we use them in our stories, whether they are real places or our own creations ... as inspiration. Not that I incorporate every detail of the architecture or imitate exact floor plans ... , for Verwood's home I wanted something older. I found what I was seeking in Trerice House, pictured [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 12:16:00
Refinancing Mortgage Deals - Tips To Find The Best Available
Whether you need cash to renovate your house, money for college, or simply want to liquidate some of the equity you’ve built up in your home, ... or improvement project will require you to submit documentation that includes full plans, architectural drawings, contractors’ estimates, project budget and an appraiser’s assessment of the home’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 04:40:38
Incredible disappearing waterway could cost Laguna millions
Sniff, sniff, snifffff…The Watchdog smells a lawsuit brewing… ... to the city in 2002 with plans for a 4,158 square foot house. Denied. Back again with a smaller ... commissioners examined architectural drawings, sniffed, said there were too many Tuscan-inspired [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 14:00:26
Free Redwork Patterns
Remember yesterday when I suggested finding redwork patterns in books? ... . I not only use it for its original intention of tracing and refining floor plans, but also ... . If you can't find it at a crafts store, try an art supply house, or architectural printing service [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 05:08:00
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
Glass elevator highlights $34.5 million house
112 Emerald Bay/Cindy Yamanaka 112 Emerald Bay/Cindy Yamanaka The Laguna Beach house known as “Cresting Wave” has curving copper roofs, ... , 9,759-square-foot house is the cylindrical glass elevator, topped with a conical skylight. A spiral stairway ... for $34.5 million last February, O.C.’s second-highest sales price. Architectural plans on record [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 20:01:18
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
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
Paper Roses (a la Marie Osmond)
It Ain't John Steinbeck's Crepes Of WrathPhotographs copyright: ... by us when we built this home.I planned the garden before the house was built. I sketched each garden bed and each prospective plant on the architectural scale drawings. I sketched where the garden gate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 19:00:00
Studio Peizhu and The Cai Guoqlang Courtyard House
... even crumbling buildings into modern livable spaces. Although of course they have many previous ... succinctly what the plan at the start of the project was: “This residence for an artist calls [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 10:00:33
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
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
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
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
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
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
Your House Plan Fast, Easy, Affordable
What I like in internet very much is that many difficult things you needed to discuss only with a specialist before are completely automatized and ... ideas, look at Contemporary house plans that are combinations of different architectural styles ... home. You will surely like French Country House Plans created in respect of all the characteristics [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 12:50:00
planning your own house
The idea of getting that dream house come into reality is sometimes very daunting ... into architectural House Plans. Nowadays though, there is a way to help you in finding the perfect plan ... or Spanish terrazas or even if it’s Country House Plans to log home floor plans you are looking [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 03:01:29
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