House on Restrictive Narrow Lot with Loft-Like Interior Plan

Noyack Creek House is one of the latest works of Bates Masi Architects which already won 11 architectural awards. It belongs to a New York actor as his place for relaxing and entertaining. The house was built on restrictive narrow lot fronting the tidal estuary of Noyack Creek. As its exterior as its interior they are both done in contemporary style mostly from natural materials. Its interior plan is a loft-like with combined living and dining spaces. Natural materials are everywhere starting from wooden floors and ending with wooden furniture. In combination with more contemporary style elements like large glazing, sliding doors, stone glossy surfaces and leather they create amazing atmosphere.

Ultramodern Glass Cube Home

When a neighborhood is beautiful as it is, many architects choose to respect the vernacular architecture and build something that fits. When the neighborhood is somewhat less aesthetically desireable, it conversely gives designers like October Ueda & Nakagawa Architects license to do something radically different, creative and new like the ultramodern box home shown above.

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Who says you can't take a pot rack out of the kitchen? This inexpensive metal unit sits in the corner of the linen room. Its utilitarian finish gets a facelift with fabric shelf liners and a mix of unusual accessories.

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Luxury Property in London by Belsize Architects

Based in London, Belsize architects of this new concept of property, located on a narrow street near Hampstead Heath and the village, and is composed of three apartments. The customer is interested from the beginning in an uncompromisingly modern. His memory was to the house in a modern, full of light, and to ensure that there was a “wow” factor in the height and the ground floor. The brief was also to the back of the house by its spatial extension and forms a connection between house and garden, with new low-key landscape to complement the overall design

The major architectural change to the external rear of the building as a new extension on the ground floor, the roof structural glass is partly covered terrace that is accessible from the ground visibility de-chaussée. The rear extension has its own patio with a lower level with a large granite wall, which forms part of a waterfall in the garden above.

Internally, the rooms are thoroughly reviewed. The new sub-soil has been dug for still more of a higher ceiling. It includes the kitchen, dining and family lounge. To the ground, in the entry, the formal living and dining room, completely open to each other and with a new specially forged staircase connecting the two floors. The staircase is made of a folded steel plate connected to a steel bar in the wall. The steel plates are then covered with walnut, with a glass balustrade on the side connected.

Another important element in the room is lined with leather hand-unit, with the curved top, and continues through the ceiling. The device contains a mute boy in the kitchen, bar, television, storage and integrates lighting from above.

On the first floor is the master bedroom suite with bathroom, walk and study. The bathroom, dressed in Crema Marfil stone, has a shower. A large glass screen separates the shower from the vanity unit behind. The band has a glass mirror for the vanity unit. On the first floor there are 3 other bedrooms with bathrooms and a further study.

Kids’ Bathroom Design Ideas

Kids’ Bathroom Design Ideas. If we want to design bathroom our kids’ it could me more dificult than designing for our bathroom because we must look also for not just our kids’ age but we must think also for the future. It could be more tricky to design that. You can take a look this few picture that will give you more ideas how to design/re-design bathroom for your kid’s.

Living rooms are for quality time with family and friends.

Our designers can make wonders with their imagination and your tastes, in order to make your living room a great place for entertainment, family meetings and relaxation.

Customize Your Home Decor Like a Pro

One of the hottest trends today is do-it-yourself decorating. Shows appearing on stations like “HGTV" provide inspiration for ways to incorporate current decorating trends into your home décor while sticking to your budget. Everyone wants their home to be stylish and reflect their personality. As these shows demonstrate, easy, inexpensive changes can have a major impact on your home.

Simple changes can make a huge difference in a room.
Something as straightforward as choosing a new paint color can have a considerable impact. Imagine the walls in your family room going from beige to a bold, new color such as sage, melon or navy

using your tastes and experiences to create a sense of place

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Making the Most out of a Little

There’s nothing I love more than a little design innovation. (Ok, that’s a lie. I really like just about any chocolate dessert. And Lost. Big Lost fan. Who’s excited for the kickoff to season 6 in a few days? …whoops, I digress.)

But I do really like design innovation. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m the person that walks into someone’s house or apartment and gets either really impressed or thinks to herself, “Snore.” It’s the place you live. The place you spend, though probably not as much time as you’d like, a big chunk of your life. Not to mention, this is the place that defines who you are and what you like to the world. So why not make the most of it? Why not take a little extra time to make it uniquely YOU?

But I get it. Money is often a factor, and so is space. A lot of people see a weird layout or a small room and just don’t know where to begin. I’ve been there many times, especially in my tiny apartment days. But luckily our friends at Better Homes and Gardens have featured a slideshow today about just this issue: how to make a small space work. And some of their ideas are really great. I personally love the idea on slide 11 of hanging a big, hefty mirror over a sofa in a small room. Small rooms don’t need to be filled with small things. In fact, that’s kind of creepy.

So definitely go check it out and get inspired. You’d be surprised at how easy some of these can be. In the meantime, I’ll go personalize my house with a couple of Lost posters.

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Interior Design Schools

Interior Design is the trade of planning the layout and furnishings of an architectural interior. It's also described as the branch of architecture dealing with the selection and organization of furnishings for an architectural interior.

Interior designers take a room and transform it with color, furniture placement, accessories and generally work their skill. They are also specialists in combining form and function. The beautiful upholstered chairs here go quite well with some red to enhance the appetite and create visual interest.

Orange Memorial Park Recreation Building by Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects

Located in South San Francisco, Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects have completed the simple 6,400-square-foot Orange Memorial Park Recreation Building. The building design is an airy, light-filled multi-purpose room for cultural, recreational, celebratory, and educational activities. The visual transparency of the glazed facade on three sides connects the inner space with surrounding patios, merging indoor and outdoor activities.

The designers wanted the environmental features of the project to lend strong architectural expression to the building. Most important in this regard are the siting of the project with regard to solar orientation, the deep overhangs and sunshades, and the abundant sun-protected fenestration that provided natural day-lighting and views. As a result of the building’s siting, architectural design, lighting design and mechanical engineering, this project’s energy performance is 15.2% better than what is mandated by California’s stringent energy efficiency code standard. This qualified the city as the owner to receive a monthly incentive of thousands of dollars from PG & E. The project’s site energy use intensity (calculated using EPA’s Energy Star Target Finder tool) is 55.9 kBtu/Sf.Ft./Yr. Comparing to the national average of 65 kBtu/Sf.Ft./Yr for “Public Assembly – Recreation” use, the percentage of energy reduction is 14%.

The Activity Pavilion is served by four, high efficiency roof top AC units, with air side economizers and CO2 sensors for improved indoor air quality. A modular approach allows selective use of units to match center program needs. Fabric ductwork “socks” (where cheerful yellow/orange complements the interior wood) distributes air with continuous perforated air slots providing a draft free airflow environment. Ductless split systems serve each office and provide control by individual occupants.

Low-emitting materials – paints, coatings, adhesives, and sealants with low VOC, and plywood and fiberboard with no added formaldehyde – minimize indoor air contaminants. The polished concrete slab serves as the finished floor surface, thus reducing material use, and resulting in a floor that is highly durable, easy to maintain, and of VOC-free emissions. A high percentage of fly-ash is specified for the foundation concrete; other material choices with high recycled content include recycled glass countertops and aluminum. The buildings were sited to preserve an existing Magnolia tree grove. The roof has a cool coating to reduce the heat island effect. Bio-swales treat run-off from the patios and ball courts.

Green Building International Solar Cities Initiative Conference in Dezhou

Located in Dezhou – China, this is the biggest solar powered sundial building. This is green building design for conference and exhibition center. Green ideas have been applied throughout the construction. The external structure of the building used only one percent of the steel used to construct the Bird’s Nest. Advanced roof and wall insulation mean energy savings 30 percent higher than the national energy saving standard.

With 75,000 square meter (807,293 square feet) the building center includes exhibition centers, scientific research facilities, meeting and training facilities, and a hotel. It’ll be a showcase of solar design, solar desalination, and, of course, about 50,000 square-feet of solar panels on the exterior. The conference center is supposed to be about 30% more efficient than China’s national standard. And, notwithstanding its size, renewable energy will power 95% of the center’s energy needs.

According to the China Internet Information Center, “The design of the building is based on the sundial and underlines the urgency of seeking renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels.” Also, as a symbol of clean energy, the exterior is covered in white.

Architecture Art Gallery Building of Circa on Jellicoe by studioMAS in Johannesburg

StudioMAS have completed art gallery building in Johannesburg named Circa on Jellicoe. This building is situated on the corner of Jellicoe and Jan Smuts Avenues, Rosebank (Johannesburg, South Africa) this is new gallery part of the Everard Read Gallery and showcases contemporary South African art called Circa Gallery. The design team developed the elliptical form to cope with the constraints of a narrow site and the prospect of creating a landmark. Its main feature is an aluminium fin facade that allows views into and out of the building.

Circa comprises of three levels with the public ground floor consisting of 106 sq m of craft exhibition space. Beyond this, users traverse a perimeter ramp that connects ground and first floor exhibition spaces. This 177 sq m double volume multi-purpose exhibition space has 7 moveable display screens that can drop through the floor into the ground level below, when unused. The top floor consists of a 105 sq m private lounge and deck overlooking Johannesburg’s urban forest.

The main structure is cast in situ concrete; the cantilevering perimeter ramp and staircase are also concrete. The façade cladding consists of anodized aluminium fins which are attached to the concrete by steel angles and bracing. Dry-walling has been used inside the main gallery to conceal services behind. Glass has been used extensively on the ground floor to close off access into the building after hours and yet maintain views.

Modern Korean House of Jo Rin Hun by IROJE KHM Architects in Seoul

IROJE KHM Architects have designed modern Korean house located in Seoul city. Situated in the outer Bukchon nearby the designated cultural properties of Seoul city like rampart of Seoul, this house constructed in 169.97 sqm site area. Many Korean-style houses are existed till now, but remained houses are removed at that with the housing development prevalence of multi-family house last year. So it is one of the villages that are in progress of modernization and Jo Rin Hun is same case that is pressed with the high-storied neighborhood. It was a distressed situation to unavoidably remove the existing Korean traditional house as a position of culture destroyer.

The character of history and place of the Korean-style house inherited spatially by composing the ‘garden’ of existing house for ‘garden’ of Jo Rin Hun. This garden functions as a spatial element that satisfies the right of sphere and ownership with the recognition that each of the household living in this house is the owner of each separate house. Many detached house composed vertically with outside-stair as a passage and the small outside space will be a ‘city windpipe’ that connects that city and architecture strongly.

By incoming the neighbored landscape with the expended metal translucent board, the light, wind, sound through the small vertical courtyard surrounded by each houses are effective and forming introverted calm spatial environment. It is intended to function hiding neighborhood, filtering surrounding landscape, control of the light by me lid of the outer cover adjoins neighborhood with translucent skin.

Indistinct landscape of the village, clearly visible shape of the Korean-style house, the whole views of Seoul with Namsan tower and the festive night views were the landscape program of Jo Rin Hun. The city and architecture are endowed with strong mutual response and finally this mass become to carry the un-architectural property of matter of transparency introversion, translucence extroversion. It is intended to feel Jo Rin Hun, which is vertical and huge mass comparatively, as ‘un-architectural’ property of matter to harmonize with the horizontal stable landscape formed by the remaining Korean-style houses and to form a new city context that corresponds to the change. It lost by the shaded portion of road, right to enjoy sunshine, cultural property protection. By indoor planting to the remaining mass, It could be recognized as an ecological mass, as well as, the whole could recognized as if translucent/opaque un-architectural object are covered with expended metal and intended to grant a formable sensitivity that harmonized with the image of Korean style house to the structure of skin.

Millbrae House, Modern Home Design in North West London

Millbrae is a contemporary property in NW London and is available for location shoots via Airspace. The property also contains a luxury cinema room, outdoor swimming pool and a sunken trampoline (ideal for relaxing in between takes!).