Home Design Archive for Architecture News Category
Miami Home Design & Remodeling Show Aug. 29-Sept. 2, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008 15:37 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcomeThe Miami Home Design & Remodeling Show (at the Miami Beach Convention Center) will once again feature over hundreds of displays of home related products including decorating, remodeling, furnishings and accessories, home improvements, lighting, flooring, window and wall treatments, garden and landscape items, interior design, and home electronic.
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Minimal, sporty, compact and contemporary hotel design
Saturday, May 24, 2008 15:21 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcomeThis sums up the Cube Hotels that nestle on top of some of the popular holiday regions in the Alps in Austria and Switzerland. There are 3 Cube hotels so far, two in Austria and one in Switzerland, of which the Cube Hotel in the region of Biberwier Lermoos municipalities of Austria, is the latest [...]
Apartment Project Design for Car-friendly
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 16:24 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcomeIn a vacant and boarded up parking garage on Carondelet Street that has lately served as a canvas for graffiti artists, architect Marcel Wisznia sees the makings of an apartment building uniquely suited to accommodate the car.
The former Stephens garage sits on the fringes of the Warehouse District, one of the city’s truly walkable [...]
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Tips to choose modern bed for your bedroom
Monday, May 19, 2008 14:15 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcomeIt is true that the style of our bedroom will reflect its owner. The styles and designs of furniture and fixtures will give testament to the occupant’s mood, behavior, attitude, and, of course their, individuality tastes; such as archaic, rustic, contemporary or modern, and vintage. These are just the popular ones and more are available [...]
New species for the interior are brightening space with lighter hues
Monday, May 19, 2008 14:12 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcome Home interiors are lightening up, but it has less to do with spare spaces than it does with the hues of wood furnishings.
After a long love affair with rich espresso finishes and exotic [...]
Old Home’s Design Staying True
Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:57 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcomeArchitects who leave an indelible mark on their projects are fre- quently the ones who garner fame. There’s I.M. Pei’s Pyramid du Louvre, Frank Gehry’s Stata Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and almost anything by Frank Lloyd Wright.
But Frank Shirley, an award-winning Cambridge architect who has worked on several Cape and [...]
Landscaping Design Eyes
Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:49 1 Comment/thought/ideasThese are three simple things that transform an ordinary lawn to a landscape masterpiece.
Trees. Flowers. Water. These are three components that make a house a home.
Landscaping is a process of adding a splash of color or a line of texture to deceive the eye. It’s a skill many possess, but only a few act on.
One [...]
Municipal center wins design awards
Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:15 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcomeAny stone-faced Frisco representatives would have cracked smiles as the George A. Purefoy Municipal Center won two architecture awards recently at an international trade show at the Orange County Convention Center.
Twenty-one winning projects were honored at Coverings 2008 with the annual Spectrum and Prism Awards, presented, respectively, for imaginative and visionary use of tile and [...]
National Sailing Hall of Fame Designer
Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:03 No Comments yet, your thoughts are welcomeUniversity of Maryland architecture graduate students have spent the last several weeks designing the National Sailing Hall of Fame museum in Annapolis. The projects, completed as part of a studio course, included open glass buildings, wavy undulating roofs and variations on the spiraling Guggenheim Museum in New York.
“I started thinking about what I love about [...]
Baum Gallery hosts Art in Architecture show
Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:00 1 Comment/thought/ideasThe Baum Gallery of Fine Arts on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas was the site of the “Art in Architecture: Historic Homes of Conway” opening exhibit and awards ceremony which took place on May 4. Guests were greeted with music provided by Alec Brown on cello and Irish whistle and Cory Winters [...]

















