Vision panels by North 4 Design

Edged in brushed stainless steel, the panels provide additional light and connectivity in interior settings. The company offers 30 variations or can manufacture panels to architects’ bespoke designs. The panels are supplied as kits containing the glass and all necessary fixings. The panels are also available with a 30-minute fire rating. Customers and office workers can see clearly now that North 4 Design has launched its updated range of vision panels for doors and walls, including new longer... 

Venice Beach Lofts by Steven Ehrlich Architects

Four lofts occupy this tight 60 ft. x 120 ft. site in Venice, California, a half block from the popular and crowded boardwalk. The design concepts of the lofts were to maximize the potential of the small lot and explore how large volumes could extend into the ocean breeze beach environment. By working within the tight constraints of the parcel and a 30-foot height limit, the design explores the concept that four units at 1,900 square feet each can have abundant light, large spaces, balconies and... 

Helal New Moon Residence – United Arab Emirates by Steven Ehrlich Architects

Islamic culture is embodied and reinterpreted through modern technology and design in this 35,000-square-foot residence, located in the Persian Gulf. Searing temperatures and ample desalinated water allowed the desert site to be transformed into an oasis with pools and landscaping. Sheathed in shimmering aluminum, a massive curved roof shelters and unites the compound’s series of two-story buildings. In section, the canopy forms a crescent moon, the symbol of new life that tops the minarets of... 

700 Palms Residence by Steven Ehrlich Architects

The 700 Palms Residence addresses the freedoms and constraints of residential design in Venice. By maximizing volume, light and privacy on a narrow lot with sensitivity to scale and context, the design presents raw, honest materials appropriate to the grittiness of the Venice environment. The house dissolves the barriers between indoors and out, creating flexible spaces that take advantage of the benign climate. The house expresses a counterpoint between a sense of harmony and tranquility with flowing,... 

Home in Sonoma by CCS Architecture – Cass Calder Smith

The house, a pavilion of 6×30 meters, comes as the extrusion of a rectangular shape bounded at the ends of two lodges. A roof, with steel sight rotated slightly compared to the volume main shelters from the sun Californian the day, recalls the agricultural buildings in the area and creates a sort of porch at the entrance. The shell of the house is covered with panels self finished with strips of cedar plywood.

IG Doors

The doors have been finished in white for internal application and in a light oak woodgrain effect for external doorways. GRP composite doors are very robust, dimensionally stable and have a high resistance to denting and scratching. IG Doors are the leading supplier of composite steel and GRP door sets in the UK. IG Doors has supplied its new range of contemporary glass-reinforced plastic fire doors. Website: www.igdoorsltd.co.uk

Steel for cladding and roofs by Corus Colorcoat

Feedback suggested more colours to connect with the natural environment, and a mix of tones and shades. Products are guaranteed for up to 40 years. Workshops with architects led to the 17 new colours in Corus Colorcoat HPS200 Ultra, an update on its range of prefinished steel for roof and cladding launched two years ago. Website: www.colorcoat-online.com

Kingspan Off-Site Fabrik’s facade system

Suitable for use with steel, timber or concrete frame structures, Off-Site Fabrik facade panels can incorporate fixings for windows, doors and balconies. The external facade uses graded natural aggregates. This lightweight external cladding comprises a high-strength, glass-reinforced concrete backing, factory-fixed to a Kingspan Metro Architectural facade system, to provide a unitised and insulated wall solution. Website: www.kingspanoffsite.com

Contemporary Australian Home by Richard Cole Architecture

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... 

Kitchen board is in again

Do you also know it can be difficult to foresee many everyday activities? Or are you often and missing milk or butter, for example, it was perhaps an idea to buy you a kitchen blackboard. The company Trip Trap has just now great success with the relaunch of older design. It started with Dania ølkasse. Then came Dania-stool, Dania-stepladder, Dania-apple box and Dania-bread roll. And now it is the turn of the old-fashioned Dania kitchen blackboard, which is kept in a nice, nostalgic design. Read...