I love how this home — first featured in Vogue Living and photographed by Mikkel Vang — really reflects the personality of its owner. Stylish but very liveable.
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At the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 Lisbon firm Aires Mateus Architects are exhibiting these houses with sandy floors called Casa Areia. The project comprises seaside accommodation made of wooden frames covered in natural fibres. Sand covers the floor in the kitchen and living space, connecting them to the beach and landscape outside.
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The building is developed along the southern and western boundaries of the parcel, which together with the elements of urbanization of the site, form a kind of atrium, whose diagonal flight to a distant vision of the Sierra Calderona.
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Ever imagined what heaven looks like? Maybe just a little bit like New Zealand. And when the scenery is so spectacular then Te Kaitaka, a retreat located on the shores of beautiful Lake Wanaka in the South Island is the perfect design solution. Inspired by folded paper it is by architects Stevens Lawson. Te Kaitaka has just been announced as NZ Home of the Year, the third win by Stevens Lawson.
While looking at this project, designed by KlingStubbing, it is easy to be impressed with some of the unique particulars of the space: the conference cubes, the built-in wall light elements, and the geometric ceiling. However, when it comes to the actual office space, we see just the basic cubicles. The best part of the actual employee work space are definitely the common areas and conference rooms.
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Easterners commonly believe that small changes of individual person or objects can be a big impact on the whole, which lead them to modest and totalitarian social culture. This social tendency, which described as a ‘ripple effect’ in psychological term, here in translated into tea ceremony.
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Shade was a interesting experiment. The location is the basement of a residential building in the center of Bucharest. Since the 90’s there were many clubs there some of them very successful. Some quiet scandalous. The last years before it was closed, the location was synonymous with some of the Romanian interlope world. So it had a bad name. After a period of almost 5 years the location was rented by two guys who hired us to do an eclectic glamorous club.
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Who doesn’t recognise it? The old fashioned cup cake case, now enlarged to extraordinary proportions! Not for the large appetite but it can be used as a baby’s bath, flower box or garden pot and a nice basket for a dog or cat.