Thanks to Najela from PB Elemental Architecture for sending us these photos of the recently completed Mount Baker residence they designed. The 3,600 square foot
house is perched on a steep slope among many traditional homes in the Mount Baker neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
Thanks to Juliane for letting us know about a great project designed by Greutmann Bolzern DesignStudio. They created the interior of the First Class Check-In Terminal for Swiss Alliance Airlines at Zurich Airport. Very sleek & stylish…
New York based Shimna has created some new natural pieces of furniture for 2008. They are the ‘Log’ table made from a walnut tree trunk with a 12″ round glass inset and the Susquehanna Coffee Table made from solid walnut with an individually carved seat. As an added bonus the coffee table has hidden storage. Thanks to Aaron for the update!
There’s a little story about this house…
Near the village of Bearsted in the county of Kent in southeast England, there is a property with 77 acres of rural land for sale. Currently, there are no permanent buildings on this land because the bylaws don’t allow people to build on agricultural land. However, in rare situations, it is possible to obtain a building permit for plans that are “truly outstanding and ground-breaking,” and that is what the owners of this property have achieved. They were given the extremely rare permission to build on the land because of this house designed by MKA Architects. Since going through that whole lengthy process, the owners have decided to move to the city of Canterbury to be closer to their children, so they’ve put the land (with permit) up for sale.
So basically, if you buy the land, you either build this house or you can’t build anything at all, unless you want to take a chance trying to get a permit for a different design, but that’s unlikely to happen unless it’s equally as exceptional as this one.
It’s called the Flow House, and it’s over 12,000 square feet, so the house alone will cost a sizeable amount of money to build, on top of the £1.85 million that the land is selling for. This is certainly a property that requires a buyer as unique as the house, if that sounds like you, contact the agents at Knight Frank.
Built from the waste wood salvaged from old battered office desks, the Strata Collection
by Ryan Frank shows that great pieces of furniture can be created from otherwise undesirable materials. Nice work Ryan!
Thanks to George Dakis and Sera Demirden for sharing with us their latest house design in the Mont Albert North suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
Evan has more photos ? here. Visit the Dakis Demirden website ? here.
NEL is a unique design group, not just one or two designers, but a platform for experimentation formed by a collective of Mexican designers.
They like to create and exhibit projects that focus more on the conceptual & playful side of design. Their work has been featured in press all over the world and they are constantly working on new designs. Here is a selection of pieces they have created:
Fill In The Cat Project
I was supposed to include this in the House Photo Challenge yesterday, but better late than never.
Eric Rojo sent us these photos of a house he designed in Vancouver, Canada. Although he works for CEI Architecture, he also designs houses on the side like this one he did for his brother-in-law.
He doesn’t have a website yet, but his email address is ericrojo@telus.net
FTF Design Studio was launched in 2006 and is the creation of husband & wife team, architect West Chin and interior designer Roseann Repetti. They like to design furniture that has minimal clean lines, beauty and versatility, and they use high-quality materials like walnut, oak and bamboo. Here are three of their latest products…
The Frame Cabinet (made from walnut)
When I see felt, it reminds me of craft projects in elementary school, but Brandon Perhacs from Lichen has created some items far from crafty…made from 100% merino wool felt are the eweTUBE, a vase and the eweCUFF, a wrist cuff. Thanks for the update Brandon!
If you are interested, you can buy them online ? here
Here it is people, the results of the Contemporist House Photo Challenge. If you remember, last Monday I asked everyone to send us a photo of a modern/contemporary house, and I said I’d post the results today, so here they are. We have photos of nine houses in three countries. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
The first house was sent in by John from Vancouver, Canada.
Thanks to Jeremy for sending us photos of this piece he created called “Going Green.” It’s made of plywood, covered in artificial turf, and you can stack it, flip it, or turn it on its side. He recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Master of Fine Art (concentration in woodworking and furniture design), and has a few more of his pieces displayed on his Flickr pages ? here.
This piece is for sale, anyone interested can contact him here: jjcox2@yahoo.com
We’ve had a bit of an obsession with floating homes lately, partly because they often feature great contemporary design, and partly because the idea of living on water is just really fun. A few days ago we featured some of the work of the Netherlands based Waterstudio, and today we discovered a video from NPR that features Koen Olthuis who founded Waterstudio six years ago. The video shows why Holland is a leader in floating home communities, they go on a tour of one of the homes that Waterstudio designed, and they even show us a floating prison near Amsterdam. Yes, I said floating prison.
See it for yourself ? here.
A little contemporary interior inspiration today from the Toronto, Canada based
husband and wife design team of Stephen Bauer and Merike Reigo.
Photos by Tom Arban Photography
Georgetown is a very historic neighborhood in Washington, DC. The area is full of heritage buildings and the residents who love them, so it’s a big challenge for anyone who wants to build anything new, and even more challenging if you get any ideas of building something contemporary. So it was with great bravery that McInturff Architects designed this addition of six residential units in a rooftop village above two mid-nineteenth century buildings on Georgetown’s main shopping street.
