
Today’s inspirational contemporary modern house is coming from The Ridgewood House, A modern minimalist house located in the Larchmont Village area of Los Angeles, California. This house residence is Designed by Assembledge Architects. Sitting on the area that has such a beautiful natural site, this 2400 sq ft house designed to maximize the advantage of the Southern California climate with a series of areas that exploit the luxury of indoor/outdoor...

Public seating is not always not interesting and boring, the Spanish company Escofet prove that their collection of public seating are designed away from dull yet dazzling. They are: Naguisa designed by Toyo Ito & Associates, Banc-U 140 Public Seating designed by A.Viaplana & H. Piñon, Sillarga & Sicurta Public Seating designed by EStudio Ines-Mila, Nigra Outdoor Furniture designed by M.Quintana & M.Periel, via

Topline Corporate Headquarters is a a small footwear design company based in Bellevue, Washington and the Seattle, Washington based NBBJ had transformed this warehouse/office into a fashion-forward design studio, showroom and corporate headquarters. The project components include a new lobby experience, design studios, showrooms (including a 40-foot-long catwalk), corporate offices, meeting facilities, shoe library, magazine lounge, café, and informal...

Contemporary outdoor furniture including seating, shelters, lighting, and amenities furniture have been designed by BMW Group DesignworksUSA. this furniture manufacture have created series of great outdoor and public furniture called the Metro40 collection of street furniture for Landscape Forms, a Kalamazoo, Michigan based manufacturer of site furniture for outdoor spaces. The Metro40 collection includes seating, shelters, lighting, and amenities,...

Sequoia Equities, Inc. today announced the acquisition of the Cross Pointe Apartments, located on the border of Brentwood and Antioch, two of California’s fastest growing cities. Built in 2003, this 244 unit luxury apartment community totals 220,840 square feet, and includes 15 two and three-story residential buildings and two single story buildings containing a management office, fitness facility, and clubhouse. Situated adjacent to the region’s...

Kubota Tractor Corporation offers a full line of hard-working utility vehicles to fit a variety of professional and lifestyle needs. Kubota’s utility vehicle lineup includes the workhorse RTV900; an all-weather, air-conditioned RTV1100; a transformable one-to-two-row RTV1140CPX; and the compact, gas-powered RTV500. All Kubota RTV models are built for reliability and durability to handle a range of tasks with ease, style and safety. Kubota’s utility...

The Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) Board today heard a final design report prepared by Pelli Clarke Pelli, the project architect, for the new Transbay Transit Center and Park. The completion of the design will permit construction of this landmark facility to start in August of this year. The TJPA staff also presented a $1.589 billion budget for the first phase of the project, updated to include the cost of building the below ground train box....

Pentadyne’s GTX flywheel is a short-duration energy storage product used to replace batteries in uninterruptible power supply (UPS) in data centers, healthcare, manufacturing, and other commercial applications. Pentadyne utilizes a graphite-composite flywheel magnetically levitated in an argon-filled, vacuum-sealed unit to store kinetic energy for use when the normal power supply is disrupted and before a backup generator starts or power is restored....

Holo-Walls, LLC, developers of the unique portable Liquid Fusion floor tiles and table systems, has launched their new “Aqua” series Liquid Fusion portable floor system to their rental inventory. Born from the popularity of the company’s “Purple/Orange” liquid lava-like tiles, the “Aqua” line features two opposing colored liquids in a blue and dark blue pattern creating the illusion of walking or dancing on water. Each tile...

Like many cities in China, Hangzhou is undergoing rapid urban change. While the city center had historically developed around the West Lake area, opportunities for industry and commerce have shifted the city’s expansion towards the Qian Tang riverfront. New construction has tripled the city’s size in the past 10 years leaving behind a modern architectural fabric that is powerful in scale, yet still in need of public place making. NBBJ, in collaboration...