Category — Contemporary Interior

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Snaidero Italian kitchen designer famous for making the ideas of contemporary design using minimalist interior decor combined with luxurious furnishings kitchen timber so that it looks elegant and comfortable. Classic Italian style kitchen is the most popular kitchen design in the world, Snaidero presents an example of classic style and modern kitchen. Florence is a [...]

this home fits right in. don’t it? great post. (designatedblogger2) I love this house! You’re right, it is a good example of a design that I could see being built in normal neighborhoods. So much better looking than a McMansion, and more environmentally friendly as well. (Kevin) This 3 bedroom/3 bathroom prefab “Weehouse” designed by [...]

Scottish Parliament Security Competition Proposed £5m Scottish Parliament suicide bomber defence recommended by MI5. Contest to design a new screening facility, possible relocation of the public entrance to the parliament and a redesign of the public area inside it. The Edinburgh Evening News report that the Scottish Parliament is seeking an architect-led team to design [...]

The Barcelona Pavilion building is for many architects their favourite building in the World. It’s architecture is pure poetry, simple honest planes of stone with slim, graceful polished steel cruciform columns. The integration of water through two shallow pools brings calmness and reflection to the pavilion. The architect Mies van der Rohe was interested in [...]

Bagsvaerd Church Copenhagen Utzon’s next major design – after returning to Denmark after Sydney – was the Bagsvaerd Church, Copenhagen. The plain and rectilinear exterior contrasts with the sensuously curving soffits within – the interior creates a welcome surprise. Professor Richard Weston explained in one of his lectures on Utzon that the Client wanted a [...]

Glasgow School of Art architectural symposium The Glasgow School of Art welcomes architects to centenary celebrations for the Mackintosh Building on 14 Dec 2009 The Glasgow School of Art is to host a Mackintosh Symposium on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and international student design competition from 10 – 15 Dec 2009 to mark the centenary of [...]

Client: Castell Zuoz AG, Herrliberg Program: apartment building, hotel renovation and hamam Gross floor surface: 5.500 m² Apartment Building: 3.000 m² Parking Building: 1.100m² Hotel Kitchen: 400 m² Hamam: 260 m² Hotel Rooms: 700m² Volume: 15.000 m³ Site: 2.200 m² Hotel Castell, Zuoz, Graubünden 2000-04 UN Studio Design UNStudio: Ben van Berkel with Olaf Gipser [...]

The brief was to design a small but iconic bar which, though directly connected to the Radisson SAS Hotel, could have its own identity, particularly with non-residents. By working closely with Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects, we were able to manipulate the proposed structure and found a way of creating sufficient height in the [...]