Nature Retreat

The Corallo House is a project by PAZ Arquitectura.  It is located on a hillside forest area in Guatemala City…merges nature and architecture in a modern and inspiring way.  The fireplace and bedroom are amazing.

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Frame Moooi Award

The inaugural Frame Moooi Award for interior design will reach its conclusion during the Salone del Mobile 2012, where the winner will be announced, receiving a €25,000 prize.

With the competition’s goal “to find the best custom-made lamp or furniture designed for a specific interior” announced back in mid-2011, 891 submissions by designers in 79 countries were received. The award’s jury, chaired by designer Philippe Starck, narrowed the field down to ten finalists and will announce the winner in Milan.

The ten finalist projects include:
Ray – integrated ceiling light for an office, by Shl Design
What’s in your locker? – locker system for a school, by Lab 3, the Netherlands
Caelum – LED table lamp for a bar, by Pablo Martinez Diez, Spain
Kroon – chandelier for an office and apartment building, by ZMIK, Switzerland
Shoe Box – display system for a sneaker shop, by Facet Studio, Australia
Mist of Arch – furniture for public toilet in a department store, by Keiko + Manabu, Japan
Sketch – display for a fashion shop, by Ypsilon Tasarim, Yesim Bakirküre, Turkey
Stairway to Heaven – pendant light for a theater café, by Bertjan Pot, the Netherlands
Education Trestles and Easels – educational table system for an art museum, by Studio Makkink & Bey, the Netherlands
Decanterlight – pendant light for a bar, by Lee Broom, United Kingdom

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ZMIK, Kroon chandelier for an office and apartment building

Bertjan Pot, Stairway to Heaven pendant light for a theater café

Lab 3, What’s in your locker? locker system for a school

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Rise and Shine

mountain tree house/mack scogin merrill elam architects

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Floating

house in kitakami/yukiko nadamoto

house of trough/jun igarashi architects

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Time Out

It’s Friday…let’s get together and shop on our lunch break…at a place that has a sexy metallic gold floor…and a sixteen foot ceiling.  Well then, I guess we are off to Le Ciel Bleu in Osaka.  This gorgeous white space is the work of Noriyuki Otsuka,

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Choose Your Room

The Cubic Boutique Hotel designed by architects Sergey Makhno and Vasiliy Butenko sits on a hill on the shore of the Dead Sea..color therapy and therapeutic water…rejuvenation.  Which color appeals to you?

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Let’s Roll

It’s Monday.  Let’s be on our way…

I-P House/Abaton Architecture

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Hawkesbury Residence/Marmol Radziner

More Marmol Radziner magic…this time in Mt. Barker, New Zealand…

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Felt Office

…warm and fuzzy…

office 04/i29 interior architects

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You Are Invited

Let’s get together at Napa Valley Party Barn created by local designer Erin Martin…

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Four Eye House/Edward Ogosta Architecture

A desert weekend residence designed for a family and their dog by California based Edward Ogosta Architecture.  Let’s visit…

A weekend desert residence for a family and their dog, the Four Eyes House is an exercise in site-specific experiential programming. Rather than planning the house according to a domestic functional program, the building was designed foremost as an instrument for intensifying a number of onsite phenomenal events.

Four “sleeping towers” are oriented towards four spatiotemporal viewing experiences: morning sunrise to the east, mountain range to the south, evening city lights to the west, and nighttime stars overhead. Each tower contains a compact top-floor bedroom, sized only for the bed, and each with a unique aperture directed towards the view. These bedrooms are equally-sized and unassigned, such that the family’s sleeping locations can be rotated based on each individual’s desired viewing experience.

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The magic of Wang…

Fashion designer, Vera Wang, at home in Beverly Hills…and,

Fashion designer, Alexander Wang, at his New York office…

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Weekend

I know what I plan on doing this weekend…have a good one.

duplex en vigo/castroferro arquitectos

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Choices, Choices

Bed in the living room…which would you choose?

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Work It

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