Pental Granite & Marble, the Northwest’s largest importer and distributor of natural stone and tile, has announced the addition of the Danby Marble line from Vermont Quarries Corp. to its collection of products. Vermont Danby white marble are a Greenguard certified product and is the first line to have all marble grades certified under this program. Greenguard certified products must meet stringent indoor air quality standards and are screened...
An artistic landscape of steps, landings and walkways of a stair design is spotted at The Longchamp Store in New York City. This unusual yet unique and has such a beautiful aesthetic design stairs is Designed by Heatherwick Studio. The uniqueness of this staircase is that it looks fluid, as opposed to the traditional rigidity of stairs. Using aerospace windscreen technology, the balustrades are created to form panels that look like flowing fabric....
Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. announced today that it has acquired 32.6 acres of land underlying its Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld, for a gross purchase price of $30.4 million. Prior to the acquisition by Sunstone, the land had been leased from a third-party. Ground rent under the lease is projected to be approximately $2.8 million in 2008. Sunstone acquired the land with available cash. Robert A. Alter, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...
Situated on the valuable and fragile south-west corner of Park Presikhaaf, the new campus complex for Arentheem College forms a unity with the green landscape. Three schools are connected by a second surface level whilst retaining their unique feel and identity. This is all achieved in a single building, although student flows do not meet. Urban development principles and the limited space available gave rise to the second surface level. Above this...
Fantastic design of contemporary lighting furniture coming from the architect and designer Karim Rashid, Doing somekind of collaboration and working together with Italian manufacturer SLIDE Karim has designed the DNA lighting. Great combination of the design, colors, and the great illuminated of LED, this modular element of 2 meters length lighitng, with the possibility to interlace it to create an enlightened spiral. This DNA lighting is a revisiting...
A new vision for Battersea Power Station has been launched that will see power being generated at the iconic London landmark for the first time in 25 years. Developers say that renewable sources of fuel will be used trather than coal. Work on the £4bn development, subject to planning permission from Wandsworth Council, is due to start in 2012 and will also include retail space, offices, housing and a public park. The developers have set an estimated...
Marshall Business Aviation, part of the privately-owned aerospace engineering company Marshall Aerospace based in the UK, recently needed to increase their hangar capacity to meet requirements for a new dedicated corporate aircraft maintenance facility, whilst reducing capital expenditure and creating lower operating costs. Rather than build a traditional Hangar, Marshall decided to contact Freespan (Sprung) who offered a relocatable, energy efficient...
Cooper Lighting’s Lumière Cambria 203 architectural accent and landscape fixtures are now available with LED lamping. Designed for standard 12-volt systems, integrating this LED technology into new or retrofit applications is simple and seamless. The fixtures are available in 3000K, 4300K, or 6300K color temperatures in 7-, 20-, or 25-degree optical throws. Built like MR16 halogen modules, the lamps incorporate a thermal control circuit that optimizes...
The Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini designed and created this brand new contemporary sofa seating furniture called Mambo and it will come in two, three and four seat sofas as well as a puff. so nice and comfortable, gonna love it. via
Beautiful aesthetic contemporary unique restaurant building design called The Treehouse is finally done and completed being designed by architects Peter Eising and Lucy Gauntlett from Pacific Environments Architects. This Yellow Treehouse Restaurant is designed located on a site north of Auckland, New Zealand. Unique concept and design well done job for the architects in such have this great idea. via
The Contour Lounge Chair by Murillo
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Contemporary Office Designs from Triple Five Design
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The Gallery House designed by architect Richard Librach
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The Riedel Amadeo Decanter from Williams-Sonoma
Williams-Sonoma, the company that serves cookware, cooks stool, cutlery, electrics, bakeware,...
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