When you start getting a house to be designed and built around your cars, it's clear how far your passion can take you. This house in Japan by no.555 features a car elevator which elevates any one of the owner's prized possession from the basement car park up to the living room, becoming part of the decor. In an instant, the car has been transformed from a mode of transportation into an added sculptural work of art.
Living/ dining areas - after
Living/ dining areas - before
Master bedroom - before
Master bedroom - after
Bathroom - before
Bathroom - after
If this collection of furniture by Dzimitry Samal does not disillusion you, I don't know what else to say. Behind the collection lies a design concept even more philosophical: it reminds us about the possible existence of parallel worlds, so that the presented pieces are partly 'held' in another realm. Get it?
Technology has influenced tile design in a big way. Yes, we now have tiles that change colors in accordance to temperature variations! This results in a palette of beautiful colors spread over the tiled wall, making for a really unusual sight in the shower!
Don't put those pennies away in your piggy-bank. I bet you didn't know they make for one great looking floor... Link
Photos were composed digitally to create a montage of Beijing's cityscapes on the wall tiles in these bathrooms designed by Dr David Tang. Link
What does a home means to you? For many, it's a cozy space which is highly personalized to their lifestyles and preferably large enough for the family to live in comfortably without feeling they are stuck in a container.
These images just came in from Japanese architect Shun Hirayama's office.
Firstly, we started to define what kind of places should be there on the hill and then images of four living places were formed: a kitchen and a dining space near a road that becomes an approach, a living space at a good view point, bedrooms at positions to look out the hill, a bathroom at an airy location, and so on. After that, we put these places to individual volumes, converted them to wooden masses and shaped them, conforming to each site shape and condition, as if carving sculpture. The lateral of the road and the north surface are positioned parallel to the site boundaries, and the east surface, where the kitchen is, is slanted toward the south in order to let light in. The face of the living space is slightly inclined toward the north, so as to avoid seeing the neighborhood’s building. As a result, gradually overlapping each other, the four masses were formed into one shape.
After the outline of the building emerged, we proceeded to create the interior spaces. First of all, we produced a path that possesses comfortable straight eyesight, analogous to walking between trees. The path connects the inside and the outside, and again backs to the inside without a dead-end. A bridge becomes a part of the journey. On the finishes of the floors, various kinds of wooden floor that were chosen to match the assorted atmosphere are laid like carpets. In the center of a concrete floor that meets the ground, thin trees are arranged so as to look like a path between rice paddies.
We forwarded the design, piling up stories little by little, as if animals create their nest steadily. The traces of the thoughts and processes appear remarkably. In the interior of the building that was shaped to fit the landform, walls set in diverse angles, various ceiling heights and ten different floor levels exist and in the each space dissimilar shades live. The wind that enters inside the one-room interior space feels like they came between trees, and it feels like sitting on a natural stump, when sitting on a slight level difference.
Les aventuriers is a title of a story that tours a creation of the house on this particular site."
Golfing anytime, anywhere. Provided you have the space, that is.
Japanese architects Geneto have completed a house in Tokyo dominated by plywood structures that form furniture and room divisions.
We have gathered a selection of homey and inspiring interiors by West Chin.
Ottoman from Ligne Roset combines a powdery soft blue tone with exquisite geometry.
This curtain 'transports' you straight into the forest.
Designed and created by Latvian designer Rolands Landsbergs, the Boxetti Collectionis comprised of five separate modules, each driven by three basic design principles – functionality, advanced technologies and the ‘contemporary aesthetics of minimalism.
We see hammocks all around this house!
SKiN is a seating system by French architect Jean Nouvel that won the best of the best title at the 2008 Red Dot Design Awards.
Wish it smells as good as it looks...
California interior designer Kristina Urbana Spencer used her own small home to prove the point that an eco-friendly house can score in the looks department too.
Precision-etched metal sheets that transform into three exotic bloom-shaped forms.
VitraHaus, a German furniture manufacturing company had architects Herzog and de Meuron design a house with many large openings for the presentation of their collection.
The Clothes Hanger Lamp is a cool hanger with an 11 watt compact fluorescent light bulb that makes your clothes glow when they are hung from it.
We bring you snapshots from the recent IMM Cologne 2010.
Wallcovering has met its challenger?
IKEA always comes up with some brilliant ideas for their marketing programme. The latest involved displaying their furniture collections in 4 important metro stations in Paris, giving potential customers a chance to try out the furniture without having to step into the store.
If you can't hide it, why not make a distinct feature out of it? We show you an example.
