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- Laser-Engraved Wood iPhone Case Resembling a Camera
- Comfortable Home in Harmony With Its Surroundings: Piracicaba House
- Sustainable Home With Lovely Design Features Near Seattle
- Celebrities Portrayed as Russian Generals by Replaceface
- Contemporary Residence With Ingenious Architecture Details: 4×30 House
- Modern Villa in Mexico: Ponce House by Coutiño & Ponce Architects
- Imposing Contemporary Residence Overlooking The Mediterranean Sea
- Multi-Residential Suburban Home: The Avenue by Neil Architecture
- Luxurious and Falmboyant Berlin Penthouse Design
| Laser-Engraved Wood iPhone Case Resembling a Camera Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:49 AM PDT
There are so many interesting iPhone Cases on the market, that you can’t help but wonder which one to get first. This wood iPhone case was designed to look like a camera. The engravings are fresh and modern, but allow the case to display a very realistic design. Remembering the days when a camera would take all your pictures, the wood iPhone case found on Toxel protects your gadget with the strength of the wood, while gently embracing it with the shock-absorbing inner felt pad. The laser-engraved old-school camera adorns the wood on the back, while the front will display an elegantly framed iPhone. Two versions of the same beautiful iPhone case with a vintage feel are available: walnut or bamboo. Designed by Hong Kong-based SigniCase, the Wood Camera iPhone Case weighs only 22g and you can get it from here for $42.00.
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| Comfortable Home in Harmony With Its Surroundings: Piracicaba House Posted: 27 Sep 2011 05:57 AM PDT
Located in Piracicaba, Brazil, the residence you are about to enjoy is a fantastic modern architectural response to its surroundings. Displaying 21,500 square feet of living spaces – both entertaining and private rooms, the Piracicaba House is only 250km away from São Paulo. Designer Isay Weinfeld constructed the architecture in complete harmony with the surrounding landscape – following the terrain’s contour and displaying a North orientation. According to the architect, “the distribution on 3 floors arranged in perpendicular axes allows the land displacement to be overcome naturally, and makes the garden accessible from any floor: the lower ground, semi subterranean and positioned in the lowest level of the land, parallel to the contour lines, houses storage areas, the mechanical room and garage – that standing on grid pillars. The ground floor, laid out as an L and accessible from the street through an S-shaped ramp, houses the service areas and the lounge/dining room – the latter, fully encased in glass, on one side overlooks the back portion of the land and merges with the pool deck through wide sliding doors; on the other side, is shielded from the sun and secluded from the street by a long sun baffle made of large vertical concrete slabs, unevenly placed along the whole facade. The upper floor, a volume that stretches perpendicularly to the contour of the land and that, at one end, cantilevers towards the street, and at the other is planted on the higher section of the land, houses the bedrooms and the den – the latter opening onto a large wooden deck, build on the ceiling slab over the lounge/dining room.” Surprisingly comfortable, the Piracicaba House also features a rectangular swimming pool located in the interior of the L-shaped interior spaces display. Could you call this a dream home?
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| Sustainable Home With Lovely Design Features Near Seattle Posted: 27 Sep 2011 04:30 AM PDT
Ellis Residence was designed by Coates Design and is a 2,560 square foot contemporary home located in Bainbridge Island, a city in Washington state, USA. According to the architects, “the owners' goal was two-fold: they wanted to prove that sustainability can be achieved without compromising a modern aesthetic design and they wanted to motivate others to follow suit.The design limits its impact on the environment with a multitude of sustainable practices. Through implementation of geothermal, photo-voltaic, solar hot water, and advanced heat-recovery technologies this home has succeeded in reducing the energy consumption by more than 70% compared to a typical home construction. The home also makes use of rain water cisterns for irrigation of native landscaping and a vegetated roof. The project's ecologically small footprint was not just constrained to the construction of the new house. Rather than demolishing the existing structure on the site, the team deconstructed, it effectively diverting 98% of its material from the landfill“. Aside from having powerful sustainable features, the residence displays a tasteful interior design, with plenty of inspiring arrangements. Have a look!
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| Celebrities Portrayed as Russian Generals by Replaceface Posted: 27 Sep 2011 03:28 AM PDT
Replaceface is a website where portraits are being done in a more or less noble manner. The concept (found on My Modern Met) is based on the works of George Dawe, an English artist who painted no less than 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The author of these particular celebrity portraits is not mentioned on the official website. What we do know is that, following the example of George Dawe, new “generals” were created: “I’m using digital copies of these paintings as a basis for my own work which involves incorporating my friends, family and even some celebrities into the paintings using Photoshop“-says the developers of the portraits below. There are no information on the website regarding the possibility of having your own portrait done this way. But the question is: would you like to?
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| Contemporary Residence With Ingenious Architecture Details: 4×30 House Posted: 27 Sep 2011 02:18 AM PDT
The 4×30 House was designed by CR2 Arquitetos and FGMF Architects and is located in São Paulo, Brazil. According to the information from the official project description, “the story began more as a challenge rather than as an architectural project. How make the entire program of a house fit in that 4x30m lot, relying on a few illuminated surfaces? From the tiny Japanese and Dutch houses, we have borrowed more than the certainty that it would be possible to take advantage of the little space in a creative manner. The search for natural illumination and ventilation conditioned the emphasis on the central garden, cut in the constructed volume in order to create three façades generously bathed in light. United by a footbridge around the garden, two blocks of different sizes organize the functions of the house and require residents to enjoy the green on all displacements. The larger block focuses the living room and kitchen on the ground floor and the bedrooms upstairs; the smaller one contains supporting environments such as service area, office and vertical circulation of the house“. We love the idea of this project are pleasantly surprised by the result. How do you find it?
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| Modern Villa in Mexico: Ponce House by Coutiño & Ponce Architects Posted: 27 Sep 2011 01:08 AM PDT
Ponce House was designed by Coutiño & Ponce Architects and is located in La Palma, a small town in Tabasco state, Mexico. Here is the official project description we were sent: “Ponce House is located in a plot of approximately 7.41 acres and it is part of a group of buildings that make up "Quinta Mamá Ali," which will include four houses, pool area with “palapa”, a small chapel, a playground and a ballroom. The project is developed through the design of two perpendicular bodies that house the entire program. The main volume is structured by a passageway that extends 3.75 meters throughout the house, setting the area of the bedrooms in the northeast. This same body in opposite direction defines the service area comprised of kitchen, laundry area, court and maid's room. The lower body houses the remaining spaces. The living-dining area, located in the northeast, is defined by a rectangular space extending from the main body. To the northwest lies parking space for three cars and all the spaces that provide services to the house are packed in the extension of this body.
The main facade is almost blind, its southwest location forced the decision to avoid openings, as in the Mexican southeast the incidence of the sun on the spaces that face this direction may make them uninhabitable. However, the opposite facade is fully glazed with openings of 3.75 meters by 2.20 meters that make up the facade of the bedrooms and the living-dining area. The two meters of extension that the slab in front of this facade has, configure a porch area that opens the space outward, towards the area where the pool will be located, making this entire perimeter an outdoor living area where you can enjoy views of open countryside that the location of the house provides.” [Photography: Fabian Coutiño]
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| Imposing Contemporary Residence Overlooking The Mediterranean Sea Posted: 26 Sep 2011 11:57 PM PDT
Oded & Elizabeth Tal Architects completed an impressive contemporary residence in Tel Aviv, Israel. Here is the information we received from the project developers: “The house was built on a beautifully sloping site, on a hilltop overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, in a suburb north of Tel Aviv, Israel. In order to give all spaces within the house views to the sea, the house was built along the length of the road at the top of the site, leaving the western half of the site for the pool and garden areas. Glass walls open the rooms of the ground floor to the outdoor living space, which is elemental to living in a climate with nine months of summer. A built-in hot tub and full outdoor kitchen facilities make entertaining around the pool a year round pleasure. The house is comfortably modern, built with highly insulated walls and double glazed windows to protect from days of extreme heat. The roof is finished with grey zinc paneling. The exterior is punctuated by pillars of volcanic stone from the Galilee Sea area which support the exposed wood roof structure and pergola painted in creamy white. Interior furnishings were imported from Italy for a clean contemporary look to complement the sculptural glass and steel stairway to the gallery above the salon. Within the house are five en-suite bedrooms plus a master suite on the top floor within the sloping roof. In the basement are a home cinema, spa and staff quarters to assure personal pampering”. [Photography by Elad Gonen ]
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| Multi-Residential Suburban Home: The Avenue by Neil Architecture Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:55 AM PDT
Designed as a multi-residential building, the Avenue showcases a splendid solution to constructing a home that does not fit the usual typology of a suburban residence displaying a garage at the entrance. : “As a rejection of this prevailing model the project sought to sensitively provide a high quality infill development as a modest and discreet intervention to the streetscape. The key element in the development of the concept is the rammed earth wall, which serves at once as a party wall and boundary identifier, and as an anchor grounding the dwellings and holding them in the landscape. One of our primary aims was the development of a sensitive typology for urban consolidation in what is an established outer suburban fringe setting. The lack of defining boundary elements along the street preserves the original landscape features and serves to unify the streetscape appearance and reinforce the prevailing neighbourhood character.” Located in a residential suburb of Melbourne, Australia, named Blackburn, the Avenue was designed by Neil Architecture, who explained the inspiration and construction of the house.
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| Luxurious and Falmboyant Berlin Penthouse Design Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:54 AM PDT
Luxury and elegance go hand in hand in this exquisite penthouse design. Oskar Kohnen and Fabian Freytag of Berlin-based architectural office LecaroliMited created the bright space as a flamboyant reinvention of residential luxury, using shapes, patterns, mirroring surfaces and colors to create a modern fairytale penthouse apartment. Part of the designers’ cutting edge projects, the Berlin penthouse showcased today occupies 400 square meters of a residential building in Germany’s capital, Berlin. Fabulously displaying mirroring surfaces and bold colors, the two-level apartment found on Yatzer complies with the owner’s requirements and encourages a luxurious contemporary lifestyle. Displaying an open floor plan enhanced by the use of the mirroring surfaces, the penthouse apartment encompasses all necessities in a fascinating interior design. One of the most interesting apartments seen lately, the Berlin penthouse cannot go unnoticed.
Oskar Kohnen and Fabian Freytag
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