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Before every construction starts there are a lot of preparations required. The site analysis is one of them too. It shows many segments of the natural events that touch and seriously influence of the future building. The sun is the main element of...

Parametric design is the process of combining the algorithmic thinking with the art expressions. Generally, you take the parameters and combine their relationship in order to get the design intent and response. As you can see...

More than just a building, Connor at Central Park is the new gateway to one of Sydney?s most popular urban precincts ? Central Park in Chippendale. Home to 178 apartments and retail on the ground floor, this 13-storey building reads as a series of...

It?s the little things that can make my day just a wee bit better ? starting it with a hot cup of coffee, catching a sunny moment on an otherwise rainy day, and kisses from my overly affectionate dog Spencer are a few things that come to mind. If my...

The site is located close to the sea on the south coast of Norway. The house is placed in a clearing of a surrounding forest where the terrain is calmly sloping towards the water. Due to public access to the site the house is quite enclosed, mainly...

Ve lo ricordate il 2010"Io non posso certo dimenticarlo, visto che è l\'anno in cui ho aperto il blog..una decisione che letteralmente mi ha cambiato la vita. Eravamo solo io e Alberto nel nostro Blue Apartment ancora in cerca di personalità e...

"A society will ultimately be judged by how it treats its elders" (Albert Einstein)In 2014, the three Tyrolean municipalities Ellmau, Scheffau and Söll decided to pull together to make a reality of their new retirement and nursing home....

This beautiful scandi apartment located in Stockholm, Sweden, was designed by Alexander White. Photography by Henrik Nero Visit Alexander White

Signature design pieces and fresh ambiance in an apartment near the park in Sofia, Bulgaria. This luminous and elegant modern home by the Bulgarian design studio Fimera presents us with a well-measured combination of contemporary and classic styles....

This project transforms an iconic outback Queensland pub into stage 1 of a cultural and tourism hub. The building contains an information centre, history room, a commercial tenancy, and sets out the shell for an art gallery.

The design of Zipeng Bay Resort Residential originated from Sun Zongrong?s ?You Zi Peng Mountain?, which swayed the beautiful scenery of the mountains and forests in the courtyard of the Hui style, and created the image of Taoyuan people in the...

 Alfredo Paredes Manhattan home with stunning arched steel casement doors which make this space so spectacular. I get so smitten every time I see a room with steel casement windows or doors, gladly they are getting more and more popular as we can...

From IKEA for dogs to custom pet portrait pillows, check out the most popular posts on Dog Milk for October 2017.

Lin\'an City is famous for its landscape. The idea of this project originated from the landscape of Lin\'an. Using the freehand brushwork method, it outlines the landscape of the mountains and rivers, which is consistent with the profound...

Put your home in the best light possible with this extensive collection of fixtures. Illuminate foyers with chandeliers or light your hallway with a path of flush mounts on the ceiling. And for added glow in the dining room, sconces are a perfect...

Image Source: Outdoor Wet Kitchen Design Malaysia shareImage Source: pinemailHave you anytime wondered what it was like to alive in addition century" For Florida citizen and constant historian Shorty Robbins, 59, this catechism became...

Yiwu is famous for small commodities. Small and medium-sized enterprises are densely concentrated in this place where the private economy is highly developed. In terms of urban construction, this means that the city is filled with a large number of...

Absurdity that happens lately in London intrigued many of us. Actually, the wealthy developers are trying to increase their properties underground. The phenomenon known as ?iceberg homes? is very popular in the English capital but one of their $1.5...

Two South American architects have been selected as the winners of The Architectural Review and The Architects? Journal?s 2018 Women in Architecture awards. This year?s top prize, Architect of the Year, has been awarded to Peruvian architect Sandra...

When I first stepped out into the site of Xinnan Kindergarten, I was a bit down and disappointed. Looking around, in this village nearby the Xiamen Island, I saw nothing but the barren fields and messy country houses. It has neither the rich and...

Located in Chongwu, Fujian Province, Fengying · Stone Art Museum exhibits the works of national master sculptor Wu Deqiang. It is also a renovation project in a carving work factory. The architect has incorporated three courtyards with different...

Bamboo decorations are becoming a very big hit between the interior designs. It is more exotic tree and it is very durable and resistible. Because of that, it is suitable both for the outdoor and indoor spaces. These sticks are easy material to work...

With the expansion of marijuana legalization across the country, high-end pot paraphernalia is growing... and getting designy!

User experience is what people practice no matter what the professionals planed. Actually, the engineers, architects, designers are making their projects by the rules and also by the beauty. They do their best to make their plans work excellent...

Have you ever wanted a miniature model of the Flatiron Building, Burnham and Root?s famous Monadnock building, or even a 3D map of Amsterdam" Would you want to have your home transformed into a dollhouse-sized replica" UK-based Chisel...

The 80m2 loft should fit perfectly with the way of life of the client who is young and single. Another issue to be addressed was the fact that the property was rented. Considering these facts, we decided to design most of the furniture in the...

Image Source: Ultra Modern Kitchen Bar Designs Location: Hampstead, LondonImage Source: Price: £22.5 actor (US$29.5 million)Ultra-modern minimalism meets old English agreeableness at this anew renovated, five-floor home.Completed...

This project is a exhibition pavilion supported by Longfor Real Estate and Orient Sundar windows company, within which the sustainable architecture strategies and the edge-cutting building techniques could be introduced to the public.

EENWERK is an art space for exhibitions, projects and assignments in all disciplines. EENWERK [ONE WORK] presents one work at a time, inviting both maker and spectator to concentrate on content and form. A diversity of spaces, differing in height,...

Designed in 2016 by Regan Baker Design, this beach-style residence is located in Marin County, California. Photography courtesy of Regan Baker Design Visit Regan Baker Design

Kersko. A well-known place, a "forest town" with a population of about 200, yet mysterious and ever-surprising. The plot is square, with sides of 100m. Two thirds of the original pine trees are still standing, and young oaks, birch trees...

Poly Future Metropolitan is ideally located in the core area of Future Science City, Changping District, Beijing. Changping Future Science City, being a new science city at the national level, bears the country?s expectations for technological...

One of a kind Joe Eichler’s midcentury home located in San Mateo, California, redesigned by Lucile Glessner Design. Photography by Sabrina Huang Visit Lucile Glessner Design

We can probably all use a little more exotic spice and color in our lives. Some of us are lucky enough to travel to far-flung places to get our fix. But if you can’t, you can now go to Target, no passport required. The retailer is launching a...

Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has won an international competition for the redevelopment of Kimmel Quarter, a historic district in the heart of the Latvian capital of Riga. The 19th century Kimmel Brewery complex, now mostly...

A tent for your bed that offers a secluded and private place to get better sleep at night or during nap time.

Combining rock maple and brass, this watering can is far superior to the throwaway plastic variety.

Details matter! It’s easy to overlook common hardware like doorknobs and drawer handles while working on a new interior decor theme, but these small items can make a world of difference when it comes to crafting a cohesive aesthetic ? light...

Unplain terrain needs a stepped foundation that needs to overlap twice the height of the step. This is considered by the thickness of the foundation or 300 mm whichever is greater. This way the construction can get the strength even in such a bad...

What are the current trends in bathroom design" Are there any specifics" Like any other part of the home, the bathrooms are sensitive towards fashion and design trends. It?s just that the novelties there are slower to come and more...

"There are several ways of making films. Like Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson, who make music. Like Sergei Eisenstein, who paints. Like Stroheim, who wrote novels spoken in the days of silent film. Like Alain Resnais, who sculpts. And like...

The Greenhouse Restaurant is built on Luxes? Island ? an urban retreat destination in Chengdu. The island, situating in Chengdu Luxelakes Eco-city, is built with various outdoor sports facilities and entertainment buildings. All these buildings are...

Brad Spencer is an artist who works with a special material used in the construction. Actually, the popular bricks the architects and engineers use, this time are used in new situation- making art sculptures! When the bricks are mentioned all we...

We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page.  You’ve moved into a rental. You want to make the space your own, but you don’t want to invest in a...

Introduction - the birth of spaceSpace is a logic, or by subjective intervention in the change of time, this becomes the core of our discussion in the office everyday thinking. In this project, we tried to directly generate the core structure and...

The new Kunshan Grand Theater is situated in the civic square in central Kunshan, a site bordering Qianjin Middle Road on the north and Zhujiang North Road on the east. As a reconstruction project of the former Kunshan Theater, it has become an...

The Project was completed with the objective of highly developing the area for a K-pop entertainment company for commercial use. The Client desired to have a fluid structure rather than static and stationary building to represent and encapsulate...

Today is the final day of downloadable wallpapers from Erin at Cotton & Flax. Inspired by her new fabric collecction, Arroyo, this series included two bright pink designs, three versions of a hill-and-valley pattern, three colorful confetti...

Last week, some of you might have seen on our Instagram Stories that we added beadboard to the garden apartment’s laundry room! Almost immediately, we received a handful of requests and questions about the install, and we’re happy to...

I love frozen desserts — ice cream, gelato, granita, shaved ice, sorbet. My memory goes back to my childhood: an ice cream maker with rock salt, churning, impatience; but then a reward of the soft texture of the ice cream once it was ready to...

The dramatic improvement in recent decades in our understanding of sustainable design has shown that designing sustainably doesn\'t have to be a compromise?it can instead be a benefit. When done correctly, sustainable design results in...

Thanks to its strength, lightness, and easy installation, polycarbonate is fast becoming our generation\'s everyman material. Used to let light in with its translucent properties, buildings built with polycarbonate can appear permeable by day...

Penda China Office has recently completed the design for the renewal of the 80,000-square-meter Florence Culture and Art Exchange Center in Dalian, China. The former buildings includes a four-floor shopping mall, three 30-floor apartment buildings...

Tambach Castle, whose owner Heinrich Graf zu Ortenburg runs the "Ruhewald Schloss Tambach", is embedded in the gently hilly landscape near the town of Coburg.

Modern retreat situated in Oisterwijk, Netherlands, designed in 2010 by Ina Matt. Description by Ina Matt Modest in its appearance towards the outside, this lengthy residence has a beautiful outlook on the woodlands of the...

Rebekah Taussig is a writer and teacher, living with two orange cats in a very small, very old house in Kansas City, MO. She feels at home in a thrift store, likes her music loud and heartfelt, and is an energetic and candid storyteller. Rebekah has...

The middle part of the Sørenga pier has a new park area that extends into a beach. Around the whole pier a new harbour promenade culminates and extends into a wooden floating jetty with diving boards a 50-metre pool with lanes, and a 200 sq metre...

Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for the Lushan Primary School, an educational campus that will serve around 120 students from 12 villages in a rural area of Jiangxi Province in China. The design features a series of barrel and...

Located on Soi Prasert Manukitch 25, Bangkok. The project?s surrounding land use is mostly wasteland and dwelling area. The opposite land is a Body Repair & Maintenance Car Garage. Adjacent to the site is a cement plant and wasteland. The land...

Economical building is what most of the owners would like and all of the investours would be happy to exist. So, the construction field is working on finding new methods of building which would be more comfortable for the investors and easy to work...

Designed just recently by Maison Amarante, this beautiful single family home is located in Lisbon, Portugal. Photography courtesy of Maison Amarante Visit Maison Amarante

Roamproof launched two new, portable Bluetooth speakers that can be thrown or kicked around and still play your favorite music.

An outdoor furniture collection that makes an overall graphic statement with perpendicular stripes and the negative spaces they create.

On New Year?s Eve 2015, this couple struggled to fit eight guests in their kitchen for a make-your-own-pizza party. The following morning, they resolved to remodel their kitchen. So they recruited Heather Evans from BKC Kitchen and Bath to realize...

Image Source: Kitchen Design With Appliance Pulls 20 air-conditioned kitchen accoutrement you can buy from this architecture afflatus site (Photo: Reviewed.com)Image Source: ? Our editors analysis and acclaim articles to advice you buy...

The initial concept of APARAT Headquarters (known as the YouTube of Iran), was established by two fundamental questions. First, we analyzed how we can re-define and create an open Space that fosters a conductive collaboration between employees...

BIG is getting even bigger.

There has been a lot of focus recently on community engagement in architecture. Some building by some architect is designed to be the next \'community hub,\' but what does it take to deliver on the design intent"

Chengdu Baiming Xiangnanli is located in the south group of Tianfu New City Station in Chengdu. It connects to the Third Ring Road in the north and the city expressway in the south. It is less than 10 kilometers from Chengdu city center and Chengdu...

BIBI Residence is a good example of how architecture can powerfully affect human?s being as it can shape and transport someone?s life considerably. This project belongs to a middle-aged woman who lives with her small children and wants to build this...

The master plan of Hangmei International Smart Town is to build a ?Town with Heart? with the power to attract and retain talents, based on which, the place can evolve into a modern science and technology town of enduring development.The planned...

The newly constructed recreational center known as the ?Jardin Robinson? occupies a strategic position surrounded by the wooded water-banks of the Rhone on one side and the public facilities of the Lignon district with an emblematic expression of a...

Types are very important because you should pick the right one for the area and your needs. There more kids of retaining walls which can be appropriate for different needs. All of them have different characteristics, different properties and...

Gus* Modern teamed up with textile brand Pendleton Woolen Mills on a limited edition trio of cozy lounge chairs.

Well... not a "real" wedding, but a wedding photoshoot for my very charming, talented, detail-oriented and fun friend-  event planner Sorrell Downing of Events by Sorrell!  The photoshoot highlighted a long list of talent from makeup artist,...

Complex wood joineries have long been staples of Japanese architecture and construction, demonstrating an impressive and even artistic craft passed down through generations of Japanese carpenters and woodworkers. In recent times, with increasingly...

In LEVS Architecten?s newest development Forum City, the firm reinterprets Russian urban life in the center of its fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg. The nine-building complex, developed by the Forum Group, curates its own metropolitan microcosm...

HACHI, the modern serviced apartment for monthly rental, located in business areas of Ladprao, Bangkok, and surrounded by very crowded urban housings, office buildings and conventional apartments. This serviced apartment composes of luxury rental...

In Essen (Germany) the last two blocks of a homeless shelter were handed over to the users in 2018. The three clearly structured, parallel buildings characterised by exposed concrete and sky-blue glazed bricks are the result of an invitation to...

Many contemporary design innovations have embraced the growth and expansion of new technologies. BREAKFAST, a Brooklyn-based rapid product and prototype company, has released ?Brixel? a product that combines the customizability technology can...

Sight Unseen OFFSITE 2017 proved to be the perfectly curated display of some of the best work of independent modern makers.

Designer Matt Wade, Global Principal of Experimental Design at creative company, Moving Brands, shares 5 sources of inspiration.

Do you travel in a uniform" The post The Airplane Uniform: 5 Easy Pieces appeared first on Vicki Archer.

Image Source: Willbanks Kitchen Design Las Vegas 3. Re: Las Vegas with kids ... adaptation optionsWith children, I consistently acclaim the time allotment address places like Marriott Grand Chateau, Hilton Vacations, and Polo Towers....

Taiwan is the origin of Austronesian culture, and is located at the northern-most area of the cultural region. The unique Austronesian architectural style has been shaped by its climate, oceans and forest, and has deeply inspired our design concept....

Nacional 135 is a custom-built home located south of Oaxaca City, a picturesque World Heritage Site in México. Nested in the San Sebastian Tutla Municipality, this home witnesses an ambient where the fast urban sprawl and the typical rural scene...

"Ring of stone floor? and ?Diagonal pass?

This article was originally published by The Architect's Newspaper as "Rendering LOL: How architects are absurdly using Calder sculptures."

To be inviting is a central aspect forming the architectural concept of the third municipal Mediatheque opened in 2017 in Tbilisi Georgia.

The site for this project was selected at the top floor and the penthouse of an existing industrial building located at the outer rim of Shenzhen city, and it was renovated into a co-working space that consisted of fifteen office rooms, individuals?...

In an area of ??the city of Celaya, in Mexico, that has an approximate surface of 70 hectares of public land, both the open spaces as well as the facilities and infrastructure, the opportunities and benefits that it represents for its inhabitants...

A multi generation house conceived and manifested as a blend of modern aspirations of traditional values of its inhabitants. Situated within a dense urban fabric of a residential colony, the site demanded careful consideration of the house massing...

Naxos is one of the most popular destinations of the greek islands. Increasing tourism has created a need for small and middle sized residencies of mixed use: hospitality uses plus a base for long term holidays. A concept like that led to this...

Surrounded by the forest on the north and the seaside at the east, our project is aimed at being one of the best examples of integration in its natural context. Situated on Bodrum peninsula, this summer housing complex needed a Beach Restaurant...

Located in Balmaceda, Chile, and just steps from the border with Argentina, the Huemules Complex constitutes a threshold of connection between Chile and trans-Andean territory. In the building converge all the public organisms, of both frontier...

To serve a rapidly growing area of the city, the Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department partnered with Clark Nexsen design the new, health-focused Abbotts Creek Community Center. The healthy living themed facility houses a high bay gymnasium space...

A recent exhibition at the MAK Vienna - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, is showcasing the works of Sagmeister & Walsh, a NYC-based design firm investigating what makes beauty so appealing.

Russian architect Svetozar Andreev has released a new vision for the stone Azure Window arch of the Maltese Islands. The iconic landmark collapsed after a storm in 2017, and Andreev proposes a new mirrored metal arch to take its place. Dubbed the...

Modern, magnetic, geometric tiles that encourage kids\' creativity.