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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Interior design trends 2012, materials

Warm and comfortable materials and luxurious finishes are among modern interior design trends for 2012. Marble and wood, leather and glass, wool and high quality plastic designs create light, relaxing and gender neutral home interiors (Interior design ideas, textures, colors for men and women) that feel luxurious, inviting and comfortable.

Interior design trends, modern decorating ideas in eco style, gray-white-pink color design

Interior design trends 2012 will celebrate your personality and take care of details, creating pleasant, comfortable and personal interior decorating.

Large mirrors, simple lines, silky fabrics, crystals and wool floor carpet, modern interior design trends 2012

Intricate details, wood carving, unique lighting fixtures, custom made designs and rich colors are perfect for elegant and truly personal interior decorating ideas.
10 modern kitchen design trends
Spring home decorating ideas, modern trends
Interior design trends 2011, decorating color palette
Beautiful combination of traditional, contemporary and exotic materials, various ethnic styles and colors, inspired by African, Asian and Middle Eastern decorating ideas, will offer warm, cheerful and stylish interior design. (Warm colors and decorating ideas for rainy fall and winter) Dark and warm colors, yellow and brown tones, deep color shades of precious and semi-precious stones are modern color design trends for 2012.

Wood and glass, natural stone and flowers, linen upholstery and silk cushions, modern living room decorating ideas, wood wall paneling

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Arm End House: Small and Sustainable

Inspired by waterfront cottages on Tasmania’s Opossum Bay, this small house is efficient, stylish and affordable. The scale and profile of this semi-prefabricated structure is modest, based on the concept of reducing building scale as a core principle of sustainability. It serves as a home and a place of contemplation and retreat for a couple that emigrated to Tasmania from the United States.

This beautiful two bedroom home engages intimately with its coastal surroundings, providing glimpses of river and ocean views. I love the openness of the space, and how changes in level enhance the spatial experience and reflect the topography.
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Large pivot glazed doors allow the main living areas to be opened up to the deck and courtyard spaces; the fireplace serves as a place of congregation, like a coastal campfire; interiors are enriched with custom-made Blackwood and Sassafras joinery, whereas Celery cladding and movable exterior screens are left to weather.
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Based on a lightweight construction, this structure is a combination of pre-cast concrete panels, steel frame, glazing and timber clad external walls. The steel frame enables the spanning structures to be prefabricated off site and assembled in place, reducing truck movements to the coastal site.
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As Tasmania’s weather changes dramatically, this compact house was designed to both open up and shut down; on hot days, the main space is fully open-able via large casement doors, allowing the living space to become a deck; on cold days the main space can fully shut down, comfortably heated by the fireplace.
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“Often people perceive architecture and sustainability as unattainable, however Arm End demonstrates that if you are willing to be efficient in scale it can be achievable.”

* More info at Stuart Tanner Architects

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Top 10 Best Cities of World Architecture design

Top 10 Best Cities of World Architecture design

1. Florence, Italia
Florence City Renaissance medieval architecture. It should agan? know of this city is amazing architecture of the churches that stands majestically. One that you should not miss this city is a bridge of Ponte Vecchio is still 100% original.

2. Paris, Prancis
Paris may have been familiar sounding like a museum raksasa.Ya, here are the Eiffel Tower and the Moulin Rouge and The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Louvre, Arc de Triomphe. Paris itself.

3. Berlin , Jerman
Old home town of Berlin is a good way to start the tour. Without prejudice to the Sony Center, the Reichstag and many other Jewish museums. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall many changes in its architecture.

4. Brasilia , Brazil
The city is laid out like a cross so that abut each other when viewed from the air looks like a giant butterfly. The city was declared as a UNESCO world heritage site. Worth viewed from this town: Cathedral Basilica, the Palacio de Alvarado, and Culture of the Republic complexes.

5. Shanghai , China
you will find some of the greatest works of modern art in this city. Tallest building in the Jin Mao Tower can be easily seen. Oriental Pearl Tower building design not only has a screamer, but agan? also be able to shop and stay

6. Athens , Yunani
you can directly visit, Acropolis, Parthenon, Athens Academy and the Olympic stadium in Athens because it is unethical to comment about the marvelous architecture of this city.

7. Barcelona , Spanyol
Vacation may seem exciting, if ane could visit: Park Guell, Palau de la musica Catalana, Hospital de Sant Pau, Expiatori Temple de la Sagrada Familia and Montjuic Communications Tower.

8. Dubai, UEA
There is no limit here! Dubai really build anything that is not imaginable in there. The whole city is an architectural marvel, so no need to mention every building in particular. But the origin of tau agan, this is only once a neglected wasteland.

9. Roma , Italia
probably will not find modern architecture in Rome, but you can be presented with views of the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Sistine Chapel, the Pantheon and the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican.

10. Cichago , USA
The word skyscraper was invented in architecture that might arguably eccentric. Here are the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the United States.