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Contemporary interior design, also known as the modern style, can seem a little confusing for people who don’t have a lot of experience in the field. This is mainly because the modern style doesn’t have any definitive characteristics. Usually, when people hear “modern” they immediately think of “cold”, but the contemporary style is known [...]
Australian Modern Home Design Embraces Aging Maple Tree
The modern home design of the Karlusic Residence is at once aesthetically spectacular and mindful of nature, history and tradition. This lavish home, located in Melbourne, Australia, was created by Hirsch Bedner Associates around a single, thirty year-old maple tree, whose presence it embraces and nurtures. It seems as if the silhouette of the [...]
Dreaming up 3D House Design of Desert Villa – Studio Aiko
Israeli design duo Studio Aiko, comprising Yair Alony and Meny Hilsenrad have come up with a 3D house design that speaks of the future and the past at the same time. They have created The Desert Villa, a residential structure buried into dunes of sand, which does manage, however, to preserve a contemporary feel [...]
Not a Bird, Not a Plane, a Genuine Floating Phantom Table
If you’re looking for innovative, yet high-class solutions to amp up your interior house design, take a pointer from German architecture practice Graft Architects. The item was inspired by the unique shapes produced by Italian sculptor, painter and Futurism theorist Umberto Boccioni. Contributing to the design, and adding a more contemporary layer of inspiration [...]
Silhouette Floating Lamp is Modern Version of Night-Stand UFO
If you feel your current interior house design is missing that extra spark, light it up with the Silhouette Floating Lamp, designed by Angela Jansen, with technical aspects authored by engineer Ger Jansen. It’s marketed under the beautifully simple concept-URL of ‘light-light(.com)’ – and that is precisely what it is. Light that is so [...]
Distorting Tradition in Jakarta – TWS & Partners’ Distort House
South of Jakarta, Indonesia, the TWS & Partners design practice and the structural engineers at Purwa built the Distort House. At first glance, it seems nothing more than a traditional residential structure in a lush tropical setting. At a second, third, fourth glance, it all becomes increasingly clear – something is askew in terms [...]
Aspen, CO, Wrap House Warms up in Wood
The cold season is rapidly approaching and you’re dreaming of a mountain side retreat – consider the small, yet lovely Wrap House, designed by Studio B Architects in Aspen, Colorado. The quintessential skiing resort in the U.S., Aspen provides awesome mountainous landscapes covered in age-old forests. In such a setting stands the Wrap House, [...]
Shimmering Surfaces, Swimming Pool inside Stockholm Suite
You want it urban, you want it Scandinavian, you want it roomy, and you want it now. The realtors at Skeppsholmen have got the home for you – a super-sophisticated, 185 square-meter four-room loft at the heart of Stockholm. This contemporary beauty literally has got it all – an open space day area on [...]
What to Do with 4×30-Meter Plot? Ask FGMF Architects!
How much sleek, minimal, efficient contemporary architecture can you fit into a 4 by 30 meter lot? Depends on who you ask. Quite a lot, were we to judge according to Dutch or Japanese standards, which often feature tiny, yet very chic homes. The team at Sao Paulo-based FGMF Architects would also concur. They [...]
House on the Flight of Birds Soars above Portuguese Azores
Not only is the Bernardo Rodrigues Arquitecto–designed ‘House on the Flight of the Birds’ poetic, odd and striking; it’s also situated in the dream setting of Portugal’s Azore Isles. Its outward appearance is no fanciful coincidence, and the team of architects involved professes having built it with the local climate in mind. The farmland [...]
