SHIFT Cottage/Superkul

Welcome to SHIFT Cottage by Superkul, located on an island in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada.  SHIFT Cottage is nestled into the exposed, washed granite of the island and against a line of trees. A glass link bridges between the cottage’s two buildings.  The living spaces are closest to the shore; bedrooms are against the trees.

dry-laid stone fireplace…

knotty cedar…

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Brione House

Brione House by Marcus Wespin Jerome de Meuron Architecture overlooks the city of Locarno with views of the surrounding lakes and mountains.

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Elie Tahari

Elie Tahari showroom by Gisela Stromeyer Design

Elie Thari spring collection 2012

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MAD

Marvelous!  Ordos museum in Inner Mongolia, recently completed by Beijing architects MAD.

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Genius

set and sekt retail store and bar/buchner brundler architekten

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Black & White…

Up and out…have a great day.

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Mirrored

New York firm REX have completed two office buildings in Istanbul, Turkey, where one is built inside the other. The design was created for two Turkish sister companies: fashion house Vakko, and television and radio company Power Media. The Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center transformed the abandoned skeleton of an unfinished hotel project in Istanbul to create one of the most significant new additions to Turkey’s contemporary architectural landscape.  The original concrete structure couldn’t be hidden so it was clad in glass to permit views through to the inner building, made up of stacked mirrored boxes. Very cool.

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Beautiful

Lovely images I came across at every reform movement.  Enjoy.

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Time Out

How would you like to spend the day together?  Let’s make some mischief…

let’s jump in the car…

and enjoy a bit of retail therapy…

…and a tasty treat…

we’ll swing by the office to check on things…

stop and buy flowers and head back to my place…

you arrange the flowers…

and I make dinner.  So lovely to have you.

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Confident and Sculptural

Hotel Domplatz Linz by Hohensinn Architecture is located next to the neo-gothic Mariendom cathedral of Linz which is the largest church in Austria.  The new hotel is a modern building which ‘ floats’ above the square.

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Ant Farm House/Xrange

Xrange, an architectural firm located in Taiwan, created Ant Farm House.   To preserve an existing indigenous stone house, xrange wraps a new layer of high living spaces around it to create an “extreme” new house of outrageous proportion.  The form strategy creates a “found interior” for the new house from the “internalized exterior” of the old house.

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Wish Upon a Star

Countryside Home in Salento was created by Italian architect, Luca Zanaroli.  Charm and whimsy abound and minimalist furnishings draw attention to the restored barrel vaults and domes constructed with locally sourced stone dating from the late 1800s.  Life is beautiful in Salento…

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Spread Out

Loads of horizontal work space in House in Hidaka, Japan by Suppose Design Office.

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Fire Pit

Soon we will be trading swimming pools for a cozy evening at the fire pit.  Wishing you warmth and…smores.

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Create

private residence, ashbury heights, by nilus designs

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