New Starbucks Stores Earn Pioneer Millworks Grand Prize Awards for Their Reclaimed Antique Barn Wood
Pioneer Millworks reclaimed barn siding received two Grand Prize awards from the Association for Retail Environments (A.R.E.) for specialty food retailer of the year at the 2010 A.R.E. Design Awards. Pioneer Millworks salvaged barn siding was used as wall treatments in interior and exterior applications at both the Starbucks Coffee Company’s 15th Avenue Coffee & Tea Shop and Roy Street Coffee & Tea Shop. “We love working with retail...
Kelly Hoppen Interior Designer Launches Plantation Shutters Collaboration
London based interior designer Kelly Hoppen is well known for an opulent clean interior style which created the perfect match for the UK’s premier shutters installation company Shutterly Fabulous. Together these two expert interiors companies have launched a stunning new range of wooden shutters. Kelly Hoppen is renowned for creating designs for private and commercial clients across the globe and has used Shutterly Fabulous for window coverings...
G&M Contracting Inc, and ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition Go Green in Hyattsville, MD
G&M Contracting builds extreme green on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” ABC Television’s Emmy-award winning hit reality show in the nation’s capital. The TV event airs on ABC February 14th at 8pm EST. G&M and thousands of volunteers worked 24/7 for one week to construct one of the most energy efficient homes ever built for the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” television show. Some of the green elements of this build are...
Modern Beach House in Truro by ZeroEnergy Design
Planning for the extreme variation in occupancy was an issue the designers dealt with from the start. The home is split into a ˜Living Bar’ and a ˜Sleeping Bar.’ The Sleeping Bar is the expansion module with numerous bedrooms & bathrooms to accommodate the entire family. The Living Bar includes the living and dining areas, as well as a secondary master bedroom – all that the couple needs when the children are away. This programmatic...
Polycarbonate Sheet Deters Elements, Enhances Design of Pedestrian Areas at Canada Place
Canada’s winter will have little effect on Olympic Games visitors to Vancouver’s many attractions, thanks to the city’s planners and architects. Historically they have kept the elements at bay in their approach to infrastructure design for popular pedestrian areas, and their preparations for the Winter Games are no exception. A notable example is Vancouver BC’s Canada Place, a landmark cultural and entertainment complex. Its...
Introducing Nambé, Art Designed for Everyday Living
For nearly 60 years, Nambé has been revered across America for its unique and contemporary design sensibility and renowned for its original patented metal alloy. Often thought to exhibit the clean simplicity of line and creative flair expected in the best European tabletop companies, this Santa Fe, New Mexico-based company is now making the line available via fine retailers across Europe and showcasing its collections in February at Ambiente in Frankfurt,...
Select Blinds Introduces its 2010 Wood Blind Product Line
Wood blinds are interior decorators’ favorites to enrich any room with a horizontal blind. “Our 2010 wood blind assortment offers solutions for virtually any room,” says Select Blinds Founder and CMO, Rick Steele. “Our merchandising team has really hit a home run with our Designer Basswood Blinds,” continued Mr. Steele. “The fact that there are 3 slat sizes available in matching stains and colors for full room or...
Cottage & Lakefront Living Show Opens February 25 in Novi
The third annual Cottage & Lakefront Living Show returns to Rock Financial Showplace in Novi Feb. 25 through Sunday, Feb. 28 with information, experts and exhibits for vacation homeowners as well as those in the market to buy, build or rent. Exhibits include log, timber frame and cedar homes, cottage rental, designers, cottage furnishings, lakefront homebuilders and realtors, lakeshore maintenance, boats and docks, outdoor recreational equipment,...
Innovative Decorative Concrete Company Taking the Intermountain West By Storm!
Now anyone can afford to have durable, long lasting, decorative concrete in and around their home without the high cost and hassle of tearing out and replacing old concrete. Xtreme Resurfacing is quickly becoming the leader in the concrete restoration business. This material is being looked at in so many new ways. Not only is Xtreme Resurfacing getting more calls from general contractors, but now Xtreme Resurfacing is getting just as many calls from...
Swedbank Headquarters, Vilnius designed by Audrius Ambrasas
The Swedbank’s new head office building in Vilnius is located in a fairly recently developed but rapidly growing political, commercial and recreational centre of the Lithuanian capital, which was moved from its historical centre to the right bank of the Neris River. A distinctive feature of the new head office building is its openness and accessibility by the public. The site for the Banks building is being developed on the old Ukmerges street...
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