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• Color and Design Originality Showcased by Up-Over-Between House in USA
• Changing Work Spaces One Flexible Office System At A Time
• Stunning Cancer Care Center Lifting Patients’ Spirits

Color and Design Originality Showcased by Up-Over-Between House in USA Posted: 21 Jul 2012 12:56 AM PDT Located in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA, this originally designed residence was entitled Up-Over-Between House due to its many vantage points and ways of exploring them. According to Hutker Architects, “the house can be experienced by going up and over the whole house enjoying splendid views from the roof garden and then descending onto the southern terrace. Or, one can walk between the two stone walls to the entry and enjoy the 'life room' waterfront view perspective offered by full glass walls spanning between. The kitchen cabinets are designed to float like furniture within the glass and stone living areas. The experience is like being outdoors connected with the land from each and every space." Discovered on Design Rulz, the project showcases an appealing interior design, spiced with color and surprising decorating ideas. The most striking one is a round wooden “box” in the center of the living room, hiding a small bathroom. Intriguing to say the least. [Photographer: Brian Vanden Brink ] You're reading Color and Design Originality Showcased by Up-Over-Between House in USA originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Changing Work Spaces One Flexible Office System At A Time Posted: 20 Jul 2012 10:22 AM PDT We love to see projects that flourish after years of research and development. Creativeness flows through its every inch of the NINO office system, a dynamic and flexible piece of furniture encouraging sociability in the workplace. After spending 2 years to research this new approach to collaborative working, Arianna De Luca‘s project gathers three important features in one mobile office system – flexibility, dynamism and sociability. Composed of a stand supporting easy to assemble satellite objects, NINO encourages an up-to-date interaction between co-workers, leaving static and outdated office furniture way behind. This is the concept behind the versatile NINO system: “In depth practice-based research highlighted the need for tools and conditions capable of supporting mobile, flexible and social dynamics within the work environment. Nowadays most workers spend 60% of their working day away from the desk and all the tools we daily use at work (laptops, mobile phone, cloud computing etc) do not require anymore static and fixed positions. But companies still allocate a huge expense to buy and install workstations that are occupied only a few hours per day. NINO office system introduces a new mobile and multifunctional solution which allows companies to provide fewer workstations used as working hubs in a more suitable way for the contemporary worker.” If you liek it as much as we do, you should be happy to know that NINO is currently exhibited at New Designers 2012 at the Design Business Centre in London. You're reading Changing Work Spaces One Flexible Office System At A Time originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Stunning Cancer Care Center Lifting Patients’ Spirits Posted: 20 Jul 2012 08:20 AM PDT Dealing with cancer is a spirit-consuming challenge that has to be dealt with the utmost care. Building a new care center requires many details to be taken into consideration, which London-based CZWG Architects did while creating a stunning architectural design. Completed in 2011 on a 360 square meter area, Maggie's Center in Nottingham’s Hospital Campus was placed between the Oncology Department and the Breast Unit. Serving the East Midlands Cancer Network, the building was designed to care for people living with cancer, their supporting family and friends, but also to lift the patient’s spirits through design: “The two story building 'floats' above the ground on a semi basement and is accessed by a wide bridge from up the slope. It is visibly part of the hospital but lifted up protectively amongst the trees. The green glazed oval elevation with their overlapping corners front economical square plans in which the many rooms required flow from one to another. The section exploits the curved roof and soffit to provide different height rooms and spaces. They have been richly furnished to the design of Sir Paul Smith, a famous son of Nottingham.  Large balconies extend the rooms out within touching distance of the tree canopies.” You're reading Stunning Cancer Care Center Lifting Patients’ Spirits originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

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