Spring is the perfect time to spruce up your home and renew it out of its cold winter slump. From bright spring colors on interior walls to updating old and worn out parts of your home, spring is the perfect ‘excuse’ for renewal. The area of your home that greets people first is your front entry. From the playful porch…
By RoniqueGibson
Japanese architecture studio Yoshichika Takagi… has completed the House I located in Akita City, Japan. With an undeniable inspirational architecture, the building lies in the middle of an urban area, surrounded by large commercial buildings. As you can see from the pictures, privacy was a problem when designing this structure. The architects had to be careful to keep a balance
By Ada Teicu
October 22, 1984
Las Vegas metropolitan area has suffered enormous change during the past decades. The images below are provided by NASA and show the development of this region from 1985 until 2009. “On March 1, 2009, NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite turned 25. These images of the western portion of the Las Vegas metropolitan area show the city’s steady spread…
Matthew Hofmann from Hofmann Architecture… recently completed a contemporary renovation of a vintage 1970′s Airstream trailer which currently serves as an efficient living and working space. Green thinking heavily influenced this project. This means that in the interview below you will be reading about quite a few ingenious sustainable ideas that stood at the basis of redesigning this trailer. Enjoy
The Fontana Apartment, located in San Francisco, California, received a beautiful and modern interior design from Mark English Architects…. Part of a semi-circular apartment tower near San Francisco’s Aquatic Park, the exceptional apartment had an interesting plan to begin with. Using the available space as the base for reconstruction, the architects removed all non-bearing walls, leaving the space open
By Ada Teicu
We know most of you have a passion for bicycles. We are also aware of how much these two -wheels light vehicles mean to you and how sometimes you feel that they deserves better than being stuck in the garage all day long. 718 Bedford Ave Bike Rack… is an ingenious method of placing your bike where it belongs: up
The Mendoza Lane House was designed by Lanefab… after the authorities in Vancouver encouraged owners to replace their garages with laneway houses in order to increase people density in certain neighborhoods. According to the architects, “the Mendoza Lane House is 710sf with combined living/dining/kitchen upstairs along with a balcony. It’s built on a standard 33′x122′ lot and has the same
By Lavinia
Artist Sebastian Errazuriz came up with an interesting idea for a bookshelf. Seen on Designboom…, ‘Metamorphosis’ is a hand carved furniture piece, made from baltic birch plywood and resembles a giant tree branch with many ramifications. Suited for books and magazines, the unusual shelving unit can also be used for storing various objects; it is all up to the
Every spring when the warmer weather starts, the excuse to want to spend more time outdoors then indoors is always attractive. Although, the reality is, if you spring clean your home now, you will have more time to enjoy the outdoors and have a healthy conscious about your interiors at the same time! Spring cleaning is a chore that many…
By RoniqueGibson
Valued at $8,500,000, this exquisite property for sale at Sotheby`s Canada… is located in Whistler, British Columbia. Resting on 6,000 square feet, the 6 en-suited bedroom residence features an open plan gourmet kitchen and living area prepared for any catering and entertaining needs, as well as games and media rooms, a nanny suite and a butler’s pantry so that you
By Ada Teicu
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