Thursday, December 23, 2010



Architects: INNOCAD Planung und Projektmanagement GmbH
Location: Graz, Austria
Project Architect: DI Oliver Kupfner
Project team: DI Martin Lesjak, DI Roland List, Reinhard Schütz, DI Margit Spreitzer, DI Bernd Steinhuber
Site area: 509 sqm
Constructed area: 1,085 sqm
Budget: 980,000 Euro
Project year: 2005-2008
Project year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Paul Ott




Thursday, December 23, 2010 by Interiors Design · 0

Ozhan Hazirlar has designed this cool collection of modern minimalist apartment interior decorating ideas to spark your creativity and style. Making the small space of an apartment to be look more elegant, fresh and feel big is one of the biggest challenges that we have. One of the most essential ways to make an apartment seem clean, big and open is to make sure it stays organized.

Making a small apartment into your own personal comfortable living space is easy and affordable. Color is one of the great tools we have for making spaces look and feel a certain way. Another way to give some pop to the room is to choose an accent wall. This nice modern minimalist apartment collection might inspire you in designing your own apartment interior decoration.







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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

This Lace apartments is the latest building by slovenian architecture firm ofis Arhitekti located in the centre of Nova Gorica (population 32.000) – Nova Gorica is situated in the west of Slovenia, adjacent the Slovene – Italian border. It lies 92 meters above sea level. The town has also very specific climate conditions – it is renowned is the hottest town in Slovenia in summer and very strong winds in winter.
This Lace Apartments uses a three-dimensional lace which embraces the volume of the building. this lace concept is also uses for functional elements such as roofs, pergolas, dividing walls and balconies. these provide protection from the elements and privacy for its inhabitants. Additional aluminium shading panels can be added to shelter the balconies in the winter.
The building is positioned on the fixed urban plot 48 x 16m x 5 floors. The formal concept reinstates three-dimensional lace which embraces the volume of the building. Furthermore, the lace is transformed into functional elements – projecting roofs, pergolas, apartment dividing walls, terraces and balconies with loggias. These elements are protecting external spaces and interior of apartments and provide additional privacy to inhabitants. Five floors of housing incorporate 70 two, two and a half, or three-bed apartments while two underground floors provide parking space.
Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Design Year: 2006-2007
Construction Year: 2008
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik
Design Team: Rok Oman, Špela Videčnik, Nejc Batistic, Martina Lipicer, Andrej Gregoric, Katja Aljaz
Client: Kraski zidar, Sezana, Slovenia
Constructed Area: 10.250 sqm including parking
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 by Interiors Design · 0

This 10th Street Apartment by Slade Architecture is an apartment for a couple with two children. The couple had a three-bedroom apartment and bought the one bedroom apartment next door. The woman is a graphic designer and has her office at home. The client wanted to bring as much natural light into the apartment as possible.
We use the two existing load bearing brick walls to define three zones. The adult’s area on the north, the children’s suite on the south and the public/shared spaces in between. Service blocks subdivide in each zone for different functions.
The north and west facing adult suite occupies the area of the newly purchased one bedroom apartment. This contains the master bedroom suite, the home office, a laundry storage area and the guest bathroom. The shower has a translucent wall to allow light into the bathroom from the bedroom. Cabinets on the north side of the bedroom define a walk-in closet area.
The wood paneled central block contains the master bathroom, storage and laundry spaces all of which are accessible through operable wood or glass panels/doors. It also defines a passageway between spaces and contains the bedroom door.
The children’s suite occupies the existing two bedrooms and bathroom of the original apartment. The bathroom block defines the two bedroom areas within the large open zone. Doors allow the spaces to be separated for privacy. A clearstory in the bathroom to allows natural light from the west facing windows into the smaller bedroom area and into the bathroom.
In the central shared space the kitchen block creates functional areas for living, dining and entertainment. A large new opening in the existing brick wall on the north side connects the two apartments and provides a generous entry space. White paint on the brick walls creates a brighter space while keeping the texture of the brick.
Awards:
Loft e Appartamenti, (Barcelona, Spain: Atrium Group, 2003)
Upstairs, Downstairs, New York Sun, Thursday July 24, 2003, p.17
UPCOMING: Colorfulness (Beijing, China, 2005).
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This Loloma 5 that was designed by Architect Will Bruder is a completely modern Live/Work solution at a new level of urban experience and architectural design. Every unit offers commercial office space, 2 bedrooms, roof terrace, and a view patio aligned with Camelback Mountain. This was the first development in the Loloma Arts District which offers easy access to the very best of historic downtown Scottsdale, including the art centers of Main Street, Marshall Way, transit centers, Canal Front Development and the refurbished Hotel Valley Ho.
The architecture of Loloma 5 is a thoughtful and sophisticated acknowledgement of the traditional and modern roots of its Old Town Scottsdale context - a place with pride in its false-front, covered boardwalk, 'old west' friendly downtown image. This project creates a live work environment in the heart of Scottsdale that celebrates both the historic and physical context of the place.
The building's vertical scale is tempered with a entry courtyard for the work spaces, along the project's southern edge and a landscaped auto court along the northern edge of the site is veiled behind a perforated metal gate and a living ocotillo fence. The architecture is folded in an angular manner to define each unit and capture, for each, dramatic views of Camelback Mountain.
Carefully detailed window walls are screened from the sun behind perforated aluminum scrims while private cantilevered balconies project behind aluminum plate railings. In scale, proportion, finely articulated details, massing, and materially, the Loloma 5 live/work project draws carefully from its local context and history, representing an architectural rightness for Scottsdale and its aspirations of design quality and uniqueness.
A rich palette of Materials includes: sandblasted concrete block, standing seam zinc, corrugated steel, fiberglass and LUMAsite panels, plus a desert inspired vibrant color scheme on the limited stucco surfaces. Interiors feature maple cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, finished concrete, linoleum and commercial carpeted floors and light-filled spaces.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

This is a fantastic condo located near Clark and Devon in Rogers Park. Gut rehab in 2005 and still looks like new. All new paint, fixtures, granite counter tops, hard wood floors.



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This is a complete project of Artist's Apartment and Rooftop Pavillion by Paul Cha Architects. An intimate 800 square foot apartment is transformed into the pied-a-terre of a young artist. The design addresses the intricate programmatic requirements reflected in the hectic and nomadic lifestyle of the client, as well as orchestrating and detailing the architecture in a way that allows the apartment to feel spatially open and spiritually serene.
Two concerns emerged during the design process : the creation of domestic spaces within an existing irregular building envelope and the important correlation of daylight and view with daily living rituals. These two concerns are interwoven in the creation of an elegant residence reflecting the client's sensibility. Subtle architectural gestures, enmeshing the inward daylight with the outward view, are created to connect the volumetric flow of the public spaces, while the private rooms provide rest and contemplation.
The focal point of the intervention is the mahogany pilaster / lintel, which serves as a division between the Living Room and Dining Room areas, as well as connecting the front window views. A ladder in the stair halway gives acces to the rooftop pavillion.
An 350 square foot pavilion is located on top of an East Village townhouse. The site offers a panoramic view of the Manhattan cityscape from the Chrysler Building to the north, to Battery Park City to the south. Similar to the Chinese garden pavilion typology, where a structure is intricately located within a man made landscape by sensitive visual vistas and spatial movements, the terrace pavilion is perceived as a refuge above the surrounding cityscape.


The structure consisting of folding planes of simple wood framing with tilted slats as infill, filters vistas of the surrounding skyline and provides shading from the sun. The pavilion inspires silence and reflection, purifying thought and the senses within, as a calming oasis above the chaotic cityscape surrounding it.
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