Proving Good Design is no longer just for the rich, the City by the Bay is bracing for a massive influx of affordable housing, located right in the middle of San Francisco’s famous Mission District. Arquitectonica, an award-winning architectural firm based in Miami, is going cross-country to create Trinity Place, an enormous, six building, 1,900-unit …
Year: 2008
Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve African safari vacation usually means a stay in a colonial, plantation-style hotel, or perhaps in a resort set in the treetops. Now, the Sabi Sabi Earth Lodge is taking luxury South African accommodation where it has never gone before – underground. Located on a private game reserve featuring 3 more …
by Lark Books ISBN: 9781579908720 408pp From the Publisher These modern chairs aren’t made just for sitting down! They’re pieces of art meant to delight the eyes, stretch the imagination, and occasionally tickle the fancy. From classic forms to groundbreaking creations from modern innovators, this newest entry in the 500 series presents a dazzling collection …
Modern Living by Andrew Weaving, Graham Atkins Hughes (Photographer), Lisa Freedman ISBN: 9780811833592 192pp From the Publisher Architectural modernism was revolutionary when it first appeared in the 1920s, and its innovation showed the world just what twentieth-century design could bring. Living Modern is a grand showcase of classic homes by such design luminaries as Mies …
There are a lot of reasons to like concrete floors when you choose Modern Furniture. For starters, they’re practical – spill a glass of wine and you can literally hose it off. Try doing that with carpet! They’re eco-friendly – they can soak up the sun’s rays during the daytime and warm your house at …
If you’re one of those people who seems to always have a pile of clothes sitting on your bedroom floor, you’re about to run out of excuses. Because the design community has been hard at work coming up with new ways to get you clean up in style. Icelandic designer Ragnheidur Ingunn Agustsdottir has created …
To create your own modern bedroom, all it takes is a little imagination and modern bedroom furnitures, you can start with well-designed master suite demands an equally well-designed bed. So many jaw-dropping masters are compromised by a garish ode to turned wood, with their soaring four-posted spires. So distracting. The mattresses rise so high that …
Chad Oppenheim is possibly the sleekest and stylish of designers, and at 34 years of age, he is also an international award winning architectural visionary. He received a bachelor of architecture from Cornell University in 1994, and is now the founding principal of Miami-based “Oppenheim Architecture and Design”. When he was starting out at 28 …