CULT – as simple as it is elegant. The doors, drawers and flaps open with a slight push. Sliding doors glide smoothly. The mixture of optiwhite glass fronts lacquered from behind in noble colours with beautiful grained wood bestows a well balanced yet exciting blend. European light walnut is combined here with optiwhite clear glass in cream and pistachio. A CULT game: offset low and high unit depths. Cream and cotto optiwhite matt glass fronts harmonise with the bog oak brown units. Sliding...
Its new, slimmed down Win Drive 2201 is only 100mm high, allowing doors to be fitted into smaller spaces. The drive can operate either a single door of up to 120kg or a double set of up to 100kg per leaf, and can offer a pass-through space of up to 2,000mm. The simplified component-fastening system means quicker and cheaper installation. See them in action at the £18 million Paragon Interchange in Hull, with its a wall of 44 automatic sliding doors. No space will be too narrow for a sliding door,...
The Leap House is located in Sydney’s Dover Heights and has Panoramic views of Sydney Harbour and the Opera House. The house is located on a rock outcrop. The clients brief was for it to Leap out from the rock into the view. As a result the house starts low at the rear and curves up to open out towards the harbour. The layered folds of the metal panel facades create privacy to the street whilst the facades facing the north are completely glass. We started by responding to the site with a series...
In the tradition of isolated rural buildings, the house is conceived as a singular gesture responding to the strength of the site: a grassy terrace overlooking a meandering river facing north up a spectacular valley, next to an old eucalypt. The essential concept of the house reflects the way in which the owner has always used this place: setting up a table on the grass under the shade of the tree. The sleeping areas are contained within encasing precast concrete walls. The lightweight steel framed...
The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developer’s competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with great programmatic diversity, aiming for high urban density and encouragement of further developments around this so-called ‘Power Centre’, one of the envisioned two centre’s...
Charles R. Stinson’s architecture is chronicled in a new book within the Master Architect Monograph Series entitled Charles R. Stinson: Compositions in Nature. The modern architecture book, with text by Camille LeFevre and photography by Peter Bastianelli-Kerze, features Stinson-designed homes and buildings that have achieved international recognition along with his distinctive style—light, line and space expressing a dynamic co-existence. Charles R. Stinson: Compositions in Nature is available...
Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels announce that Proximity Hotel and Print Works Bistro have been awarded LEED Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED is the USGBC’s rating system for designing and constructing the world’s greenest, most energy efficient, and high performing buildings. Opened in late 2007, Proximity Hotel and Print Works Bistro are the first in the hospitality industry to obtain the USGBC’s top level of certification. Dennis Quaintance , the CEO and CDO (Chief...
Faced with two challenges in creating a new research and development facility – meeting an almost impossible construction deadline and ensuring minimal environmental impact – the ING Renault F1 Team turned to ABM Bridge Systems to win the race against time. The resulting, Computational Aerodynamics Research Centre at the team’s HQ in Enstone, Oxfordshire, has now been recognised by the Concrete Society as an outstanding example in the Concrete Performance category of the 2008 Concrete Society...
Vauni Globe is the world’s only globe-shaped fireplace. It is free standing and skorstensfri on a footing that can rotate 360 degrees, so you have the opportunity to enjoy it, where in space Monday than sit. Vauni Globe, which is operated by the market’s most advanced ethanol burns, has integrated regulation of heating effect and flame size. Efforts are produced by smooth concrete through a process that makes every effort unique. The design is beautiful to the eye, whether it is on or...
Sanyo’s ECO-i VRF (variable refrigerant flow) heat pumps are all-in-one modular space conditioning systems providing ductless heating and cooling for multiple discrete zones in residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The units use non-ozone-depleting R410a refrigerant to provide from 3.2 to 20.7 tons cooling, and 3.6 to 23.2 tons heating, depending on model and configuration—some of which have a COP over 4.0 at full load (most heat pumps are between 2.0 and 3.0). These systems need...
The Contour Lounge Chair by Murillo
Murillo, the Philippines based manufacturer has been involved in manufacturing furniture and...
Contemporary Office Designs from Triple Five Design
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The Gallery House designed by architect Richard Librach
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