Modern Multi Family Home Design by LOHA Architects

This modern architecture design Housing Complex designed by LOHA Architects, located adjacent to Rudolf Schindler’s Kings Road House, Habitat 825 (53.000 sf) draws inspiration from Schindler in developing new forms of contemporary lifestyle through the use of light, materials, colors and common open space.

The bold black and white color scheme accentuates the interlocking volumes, black for the large four story volume and white to allow light to filter to lower level units. Offsetting these colors, a striking lime green color, an abstract reference to the bamboo prominent in Schindler’s landscape scheme, is used to define the subtractive nature of carved out open space.

Materials are a combination of non-combustible cement board and local forest managed dark walnut stained redwood siding. The utilization of a rain screen system promotes a long life-cycle reducing the need for maintenance and repair. In addition, in Los Angelese’s warm climate, the movement of air between the building and the cladding cools the inner face of the exterior and reduces the demand for cooling energy.

This project provided an opportunity to address the critical issues of density, site and the cultural and social impacts that arise from building adjacent to a historical landmark. Attempting to “kick down the bamboo wall”, Habitat 825 and its expansive use of common open space creates an urban space without borders or property lines.
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Black and White Modern Minimalist Bedroom Design by Patricia Urquiola

This modern contemporary black and white bedroom design looks clear and very elegant. This modern minimalist black and white bedroom design is very amazing, which can be a source of inspiration for you. This modern minimalist black and white bedroom designed by Patricia Urquiola. A designer who has given new meaning to living, classic and informal, intimate and versatile. Like her beds and bedroom, soft and undulating.

Soft shapes and taut surfaces: after having designed a whole family of chairs and armchairs with these characteristics, Patricia Urquiola proposes the same project idea in the bedroom. Wide and soft, the headboard of the bed is made of taut leather stretched over a light metal structure, and can be covered in leather or fabric. The headboards can be covered with a quilted slipcover. If you liked this black and white bedroom design, you can find more information about it on the Molteni website – here.

Contemporary Hilltop House by Richard Cole Architecture

This Contemporary Hilltop House was designed by Australian architecture firm Richard Cole Architecture, located on the steep slopes above Clareville Beach in Pittwater is surrounded by Spotted Gummed Forest. The compact steel framed house featuring Blackbutt timber framing and Jarrah floors and joinery responds to the slope by terracing down the hillside. Low pitched roof, wide eaves and large windowseats create a horizontality that echoes the western foreshore and screens sun from the western orientation. The owners wanted a contemporary dwelling in the tradition of the crafted cottages of the Pittwater area. With its precisely detailed and constructed structure and joinery, modest size and vernacular materials, this house is the embodiment of the idea.

Villa Storingavika in Attractive Sites by Todd Saunders Architecture

This 304m2 Villa Storingavika was designed by Todd Saunders Architecture in Bergen, Norway.

This contemporary house built on one of Bergen’s most attractive sites. The house looks out over the southern fjords and the West coast archipelago. The house is twofold. The top floor is for the parents and the bottom for their two children that are university students. In addition there is a small 35m2 guest studio on the bottom floor. The house is a long thin structure with a balcony extruding 6m out of the house that rests on 3 steel poles. The house is clad in black stained wood with natural wood between the window partitions.
Visit the Todd Saunders Architecture website – here.
Photo by John Lillebo

Dangle-Byrd House with Modern Landscape by Koko Architecture + Design

Koko Architecture + Design completed modern house architecture design the Dangle-Byrd House in Pennsylvania. The Dangle-Byrd project was an opportunity to explore the challenge of maintaining the spirit of craftsmanship within a modern domestic landscape. Set on a wooded five-acre site in rural Pennsylvania, the house utilizes a material consciousness to engage the neighboring handcrafted Amish farm buildings.

The house consists of three interlocking volumes. While each volume is very simple in its form, the exchange between them allows for a wide variety of spatial experiences. The first impression one has is that the house is two “shadow-boxes” connected by a “bird cage”. However, as you enter the house the perceptions change. From the interior, the cage is no longer a figure, but rather a looking glass to the outside. The single storied master suite becomes an intimate walnut valise, retreating from the exposed glass living room. A dramatic perforated steel bridge passing through a two-storied screened porch reaches the guest suite. The northern end of the house has a private balcony looking down to the lap pool set into the woods.

The elegant engineering of farming equipment and local Pennsylvania trussed bridges inspired the unusual structure of the house. The resulting form is a steel “exo-skeleton” with a wood and glass box suspended within the exposed frame. The structure is not just visual, but literally wraps around the inner volume as if it were a “ship in a bottle”. The glass living room walls and roof structure is suspended off of the cage by 6 strategic supports.

Severe in form, the materiality of the house combined with a sustainable approach allows it to become part of the surrounding landscape. Passive solar heating and radiant floors enable the “bird cage” to respond to Pennsylvania Winters. A massive “hand set” stone chimney anchors the house. The luminous floating glass walls of the living room contradict this permanence. The blackened cedar boxes combine the architects’ Japanese background with the simplicity of the Pennsylvania farm buildings The honest steel structure and rough cedar boxes reinforce the importance of “making” rather than “concealing”.
Visit the Dangle-Byrd House by Koko Architecture + Design website – here

Modern Interior Design Nike Sportswear Flagship Store by Frederic SCHWARTZ Architects

21 Mercer is the new flagship store for the Nike Sportswear brand in the New York and the only location in the world where certain new Nike products are sold. Frederic SCHWARTZ Architects designed the new flagship store for the Nike Sportswear brand with a material pallet ranging from blackened steel to reclaimed wood, a conscientious move toward the use of raw and reclaimed materials is made throughout the store. Contrasting these raw materials is a bright orange powder coated room as well as the Nike products themselves. 21 Mercer is also the home of Nike Bespoke which is a new concept in custom designed footwear available by appointment only. In this workshop environment, customers work with Nike designers to build shoes to their exact specifications.
All images: Peter Aaron/Esto

Contemporary Single Family Home Design by aka Architecture + Design Inc

aka Architecture + Design Inc have designed the contemporary single family home called Whistler Cay Residence located in one of Whistler’s oldest residential neighbourhoods with spectacular views of Whistler, Blackcomb and surrounding mountains.

The Whistler Cay Residence is a 5000 sq. ft. single-family home located in one of Whistler’s oldest residential neighbourhoods with spectacular views of Whistler, Blackcomb and surrounding mountains. The contemporary design incorporates the vernacular materials of the typical Whistler Mountain home but applies them in a modern language with clean and simple gestures that are at once bold yet subtle. The house asserts its presence on the street yet respectfully refers to its context through its warm use of timber, stone and natural cedar wood siding. The grand living spaces feature expansive glass windows that open up to views beyond. Secondary spaces offer smaller framed views while securing privacy from nearby houses.

The steeply sloping site limits the amount of accessible grade so outdoor space is provided instead through a series of generous terraces at all sides and levels of the house. The size and function of each terrace varies according to its view and exposure to natural light. The main terrace is fully covered and equipped with an outdoor fireplace and is intended for year-round usage and social gatherings. The master bedroom is intended for the private use of the owners although it shares the same spectacular views.

Premium Restaurant in Berlin by neostudio architects

The project team Bartosz Jarosz, Pawel Swierkowski from neostudio architects firm creates a new restaurant with modern minimalist style in Berlin called Premium Restaurant. These Premium Restaurant has 180 sqm area with the main eating area is left as an open space – limited only by the change in the floor height and by dropping the central part of ceiling. Special feature lights were designed to accent the key areas, dining tables neatly arranged and minimalist – making them more welcoming and cozy for the guests.
Kitchen was designed as an open facility – divided from the main eating area by the glass wall behind the bar counter. The space utilized a palette of dominant white, accent gold and glossy black – with this selection of colours to achieve a neutral background for the vibrant and lively eating spectacle.

Project team: Bartosz Jarosz, Pawel Swierkowski
Location: Berlin, Germany
Project area: 180 sqm

Sophisticated Brimar Residence Interior Design by Chris Connell Design

A refined and sophisticated interior design of the Brimar Residence creating sculpted spaces of texture and warmth. Brimar Residence is a beautifully detailed project characterized by warm natural materials juxtaposed with crisp, black steel detailing and light spaces, and timber-wrapped produce fine lines detail at all junctions of surfaces and elements within the interior. The fine crafting of all designed elements and the care and meaning with which furniture items have been selected make this project worthy of recognition. Chris Connell Design

Best Modern Luxury Bathroom Toilet Washbasin Fixtures Design from Hidra

The modern luxury bathroom toilet washbasin fixtures design have a minimalist look with clean chic lines, and comes with some imagination, a creative design, that give your bathroom a crisp clean inviting look. This Best Modern Luxury Bathroom Toilet Washbasin Fixtures Design from Hidra are now available in the luxury finishing of black and gold to remodel your traditional or contemporary bathroom furniture. Hi-Line, attractive modern bathroom furniture is designed with a sleek modern and shiny look from the high-shine golden glaze and the glossy black. It focuses on the curving lines by contrast. This lovely free-standing washbasin looks even more regal and elegant in a dazzling gold or a mysterious black finishing. Black and gold is something that will always retain an air of glamour, luxury, elegant and secrecy.

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