Shelves Letter

 Letter Shelves - acrylic shelves, designed by Rickard Mollonom (Ricard Mollon). This is a good way to add flavor to the interior of any room, creating a place for storage.

1,000 DOORS PUBLIC ART BY CHOI JEONG-HWA

Even though this project was built in 2009, we still like looking back on the 1,000 Doors public art piece created by Korean artist, Choi Jeong-Hwa. The 10-story building was covered with colorful, recycled doors that made an otherwise bland structure into a colorful, stunning coherent construction of found art. The artist
has created a series of beautiful installation work over the years, but this piece done in South Korea is one of the most impressive. (via)

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Envirosponsible Shelter

 A while back, I mentioned The Crib, an “enviresponsible shelter” by Broadhurst Architects that can be used as a weekend cabin, backyard office, exercise studio, or guest house — you name it.  Well it’s time for a short update from our last article, if you haven’t already noticed, that a 250 square-foot Crib was built on
the grounds of the Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland.  It’s being used as a visual arts studio, a lab, and a gallery and is open to visitors during certain events and various other times.

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Energy Efficiency, Sustainable And Low Maintenance: Thomas Eco-House

 Designs Northwest Architects - with offices in Stanwood, Snohomish County, Washington – have worked hard on the Thomas Eco-House project, but the results are extraordinary. Resting on an 11 acre site in the Cascade foothills of Stanwood, the four-story high modern residence overlooks Mt. Rainier and Everett City to the South, while being surrounded by fresh air from wooded hills and native vegetation. The
contemporary design is defined by energy efficiency and sustainable low maintenance features. Insulated concrete forms (ICF) – “two layers of rigid form insulation between which concrete is poured” – shaping the residential structure ensure a good thermal and acoustic insulation, while the extensive use of glass captured in between the long lasting and low maintenance stucco-finished walls allow the owners to enjoy those beautiful surroundings I was telling you about earlier.

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Typographic Organizing: Target Books Shelf by Mebrure Oral

 Turkish industrial designer Mebrure Oral has found a contemporary method of displaying books on walls in an organized, creative and fresh manner. By separating books into sections like “has been read” and “will be read”, and making it easy to find each section with a two-level design, Mebrure Oral created the Target
Books Shelf as an interesting aid for those loving how typography can prove useful around the house.  Typographic elements act as the bookends, making simplicity the key elements of this beautiful, trendy bookshelf. Made of recyclable ABS plastic using injection molding, the three pieces of the book shelf are assembled into a decorative linear design. We enjoyed seeing that ideas worth spreading combine modern technologies with our defining potential for creativity. What would you like written at the end of your bookshelves?

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Bahama-Architecten : Kas Di Coral

Dutch studio Bahama-Architecten has sent us photos of the Kas Di Coral project.
Completed in 2011, this 3,132 square foot three story contemporary home is located in Groningen, the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands.

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Proper Bathroom Lighting Is Essential

Many home owners do not think of putting much into bathroom lighting. When it comes to the living room and kitchen, though, it seems people can never spend enough. It is time to give the bathroom the proper focus it deserves; after all, it is the room you spend the first and last minutes of your day in.

It does not matter whether it is publicly visible or not. You see it, and that is what matters. Many bathrooms barely have enough light for every day grooming tasks. It is essential to recognize the importance of proper bathroom lighting, not just overhead lights, but light fixtures for the mirror and shower sections as well.

Mirror Bulbs

Vanity bathroom lighting, as it is sometimes called, should get top priority when you are remodeling your bathroom, because it is what helps you groom and beautify your face. Whether you are doing something as simple as shaving, or as complicated as putting on makeup for a fancy dinner, you need good strong bulbs right in front of your face to help you see properly. The mistake so many people make is in putting bulbs directly above the mirror. This casts shadows and makes it difficult to see your face in a proportional perspective. Cones, or vertical fixtures mounted on both sides of the mirrors, will help your eyesight better in this regard.

Because some vanity mirrors are not portrait, but landscape in nature, fixtures mounted on the sides become impractical. To solve this problem you could always mount them directly on the glass, but this is usually too costly and requires too much planning for the average household. If side fixtures are not possible, then you can resort to a light on top of the mirror. It should be at least two feet in length and contain at least three bulbs or one long yellow tube light. 150 watts is the preferred strength of task bulbs.

Ambient Lighting

You can accomplish this by placing a large pendant fixture in the center of the bathroom hanging from the ceiling. You can also be more creative and use string-lights around the room in creases designed to hide the bulbs while radiating the light to the rest of the room.

Shower Fixtures

Another important place to light properly is the shower. If you place more importance on where you clean dishes than where you clean yourself, then your priorities are not right. Placing strong lights above the shower, as well as parallel to your body will help you see more clearly while in the shower. Proper bathroom lighting in the shower is an important part of good personal hygiene.

Bathroom Furniture Suites - A Size Guide

Thinking of a bathroom re-fit? Are you replacing a worn bathroom suite and wondering what, exactly, to replace it with? It could be worth considering a bathroom furniture suite.

A traditional bathroom suite consists of a WC, pedestal or wall mounted basin, and bath. An L shaped bath provides a variation on this theme, for households who require a spacious shower as well as their bathing space, and don't have the room for both. And a shower suite - WC, basin, and shower enclosure - is the ideal solution for a small bathroom where there just isn't the space for a bath, or for households who don't use a bath and prefer a regular shower instead.

A bathroom furniture suite replaces the traditional pedestal basin or the more contemporary wall hung basin from a suite with a washstand or vanity unit. Consumers are then free to add to the set whatever additional sanitaryware best suits them: a bath, an L shaped bath, a shower, or both a bath and a shower.

Bathroom furniture is useful in any size of bathroom: it provides integrated storage inside and presents a sleek, coordinated finish on the outside.

In a smaller bathroom or petite cloakroom, a bathroom furniture suite may be a space saving option. A tiny wall hung basin looks minimal, but if you need any storage space then you have to add a cabinet or shelves, and this takes up room. A small, slimline vanity unit, on the other hand, provides you with storage space directly below your basin, where the space would otherwise have been unused. The smallest vanity units can be a mere 40cm across and less than 30cm deep. They will fit into an alcove or corner, or sit neatly next to your toilet.

The toilet itself should be chosen for space saving, as well, in a small bathroom environment. Short projection toilets save you space to walk around the front of the pan: with only a 60cm depth, they're as neat as can be. Or choose a corner WC to squeeze every last millimetre of space out of your smallest room.

In bathrooms where capacity is less of a problem, there's plenty of choice too. Larger vanity units or washstands can be paired with longer projection toilets; basin and WC combination units combine a streamlined vanity unit and WC unit with a back to wall or wall hung toilet for all-in-one style - this can save space for other bathroom fittings, but you do need a sufficiently wide section of wall on which to position the unit. They start at less than a metre wide and go up and up in scale.

Bathroom furniture suites are adaptable and, as they are available in freestanding and fitted designs, they can equally suit a traditional or contemporary bathroom.

Germany by Coast Office Architecture : the tbone hous

TBONE House, a transparent glass house design located in Stuttgart, Germany features Ecological Aspects such as Geothermal Heat Pump, Vertical Earth Connection Loop, Floor and Wall heating system, Cooling system through activation of thermal mass and the use of rainwater as valuable natural resource for water
supply in the house and reduce water bills costs. The TBone House has great connection between interior and its landscape by applying wide floor to ceiling glass walls installation in several room such as living room, dining room and the garage. For more information, visit Coast Office Architecture.

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modern architecture : in San Francisco

 The Streets series by photographer Leigh Merrill perfectly captures the often unexpectedly suburban architecture of San Francisco, a city that—away from its famed Victorian houses and its picturesque skylinecan be relentlessly dull. The featureless white skies of that peninsular metropolis and the anemic pastels of its painted stucco facades always seem strangely out of synch with the city's otherwise vibrant human atmosphere.

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California, The Exquisite Modern Residence

This modern imposing and elegant building shows how Bay Front modern living should look like. Very  impressing with a breathtaking scene composed of hills, stretches of water and the city’s skyline. Displaying glass walls and high ceilings, the exquisite modern residence. With its impressive bedrooms and a half en suite bathrooms. Home interior, the luxurious single family home shelters a contemporary collection of rooms. Living space, dining and kitchen, a fitness room, a sun room, steam room, library and the guest suite.This
modern imposing and elegant building shows how Bay Front modern living should look like. Very  impressing with a breathtaking scene composed of hills, stretches of water and the city’s skyline. Displaying glass walls and high ceilings, the exquisite modern residence. With its impressive bedrooms and a half en suite bathrooms. Home interior, the luxurious single family home shelters a contemporary collection of rooms. Living space, dining and kitchen, a fitness room, a sun room, steam room, library and the guest suite.

visit the site : exinteriordesign