Wolveridge Architects have designed this new house located on Australia’s Mornington Peninsula, which is a popular tourist destination just south of Melbourne.
The recently completed home is now being offered for sale, and the agents representing the home have created a website with more info – here.
Brooklyn, New York designer Kimberly Manne of Warp Designs, has sent us images of her sculptural stainless steel Flower Containers.
From Warp Designs:
The Warp Floral Container line is a unique concept in floral arranging, designed and patented by Kimberly Manne. Each container is hand-made of stainless steel and can be used to create a variety of looks depending on the flowers or plants chosen. Trays and cubes can be used alone to plant wheat grass, mosses or display pebbles with air ferns. Cubes can accommodate orchids, ferns and small Lilies. When the perforated steel sculptural top is combined with the base, just insert flowers and you have an instant arrangement! They also can stand alone and unadorned to function as a sculptural element in your design scheme.
Visit the Warp Designs website – here.
GAB, an Italian furniture manufacturer, has a great collection of contemporary children’s bedrooms.
From GAB:
Youngsters need space. The secret is not the size of the room but how well it is furnished. The bedrooms of the GAB collection have been studied to leave room for creativity, mixing style and functionality. Whether it provides a lively personality to the bedroom or finds the best solution for a bedroom for two, GAB is capable of satisfying all the needs for design and practicalness. For the first time aimed at single youngsters who feel the need for independence and choose to live in their own space in complete liberty.
Visit the GAB website – here.
Architect Marko Simcic designed this 8300 square foot waterfront house located in the rural district of Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada, which is on the southern end of Vancouver Island.
Although the house is large, Simcic took great care in placing the home on the 67-acre site in order to preserve the existing grove of oak trees.
The building actually consists of two seperate homes, the larger main house is located closer to the ocean, while the guest house is set back inland. Although separated by an exterior space, the two buildings appear as one because of the continuity of the roof plane.
The home is currently for sale through Sotheby’s Realty, view the listing – here.
Read more about the home in this article from Canadian Architect Magazine – here.
Visit architect Marko Simcic’s website – here.
Here’s a video of Dario Antonioni from the Orange22 Design Lab talking about the development of their Botanist Bench. The video has some great shots of the benches being manufactured.
Watch the video – here.
Watch the video – here.
Thomas De Cruz Architects provided a contemporary design for the remodel of this Victorian home in south-west London.
From Thomas De Cruz:
The Old Dairy in Wandsworth is an example of an unassuming Victorian building that has been transformed into a stunning contemporary home. The rear has been opened up to draw the garden into the house and to flood the previously dingy Victorian interior with an abundance of natural light.
Visit the website of Thomas De Cruz Architects – here.
The Interiors Birmingham trade show in Birmingham, England is happening on January 18th to the 21st, and Italian furniture manufacturer Linfa Design will have a range of their pieces on display at the show. Below are some highlights from their collection.
Visit Linfa Design’s website – here.
The Round Chair – designed by Luigi Ronzoni
The DNA Bookcase – designed by Alessandro Elli
The Seattle, Washington based Cutler Anderson Architects was given a modest budget to design a home for a family of four on a relatively tight, wooded, suburban lot, which is adjacent to a small suburban park. In order to reduce costs, the building was designed to both fit on the land as a single object with a minimum of surface area, and to orient all of the living spaces toward the adjacent park.
Visit the website of Cutler Anderson Architects – here.
An exhibition of new work by innovative furniture artist Vivian Beer will be held at the Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia between January 2nd and February 28th, 2009.
An artist who sees her design process as “sophisticated daydreaming,” Vivian Beer creates functional objects that blur the line between contemporary design, craft, and sculpture. Working primarily with steel, automotive paint, and occasionally wood, Beer is influenced by objects, images, and ideas that celebrate beauty and power. According to the artist, such objects include flags, clouds, tides, feathers, car fenders, and even corporate logos. Often anthropomorphic in form, the artist views each of her works as a “creature with a life of its own that can subtly transform the comfortable terrain of the domestic landscape.”
Beer has a BFA from Maine College of Art (2000) and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2004). Her work has exhibited at The Mint Museum, Fuller Craft Museum, SOFA Chicago, Palm Beach 3, and The International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Beer is currently an artist in residence at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, where she is working on a new body of expressive outdoor objects.
Visit the Wexler Gallery’s website – here. Visit Vivian Beers’ website – here.
Slade Architecture has redesigned this formerly commercial/industrial space in New York, into a bright and open 3000 square foot loft living space.
Visit Slade Architecture’s website – here.
German designer Anne Boenisch has designed the FLAKE lamp.
From Anne Boenisch:
FLAKE is inspired by the technology of the manufacturing of styrofoam and plays with the translucid surface of this structure. By switching FLAKE on, the effect is increasing and furthermore shows up the sharp-edged lines of the form. The usual styrofoam, better known in the backgroud of packaging industry turns contrary to his old use into a new direction and creates a new way of moder.
Visit the website of Anne Boenisch – here.
Sotheby’s agent Bennett Carr is representing this home for sale in Beverly Hills, California.
From Bennett Carr:
Privately sited behind a gated motorcourt, this classic, one-story mid-century residence has just had an extensive renovation and expansion to offer the most up to date luxury for a new day.
The formal living, dining and den all open to one another and, through walls of glass doors, to a large grassy lawn, swimmer’s pool, cabana and stunning Century City View. The gourmet kitchen opens to the entertaining area.The master suite, which enjoys a sumptuous marble bath and double closets, also opens to pool and garden. The state of the art media room is located on the far side of the entrance and guest powder room.
The asking price has been reduced to $10.5 million
Visit the home’s listing – here.
The Tank Street pedestrian and bicycle bridge is under construction in Brisbane, Australia. Stretching from the North Quay end of Tank Street in the city to Kurilpa Point in South Brisbane, adjacent to the new Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the $63.3 million bridge was designed by the Baulderstone, Cox Rayner Architects and ARUP Engineers.
From the Department of Public Works:
Sculptural in appearance, with a network of steel masts seemingly held in suspension by a delicate cross stitching of high wire tensioned cables. The bridge is a multiple-mast, cable-stay structure based on principles of tensegrity, an architectural and engineering system in which the structural integrity is a synergy between balanced tension and compression components. This produces a lightweight yet strong and stable structure. The new bridge presents an artistic array of cables and flying struts recalling the ropes and spars of sailing ships and boats.
The bridge’s completion is scheduled for September 2009, in time for Queensland’s 150th year anniversary celebrations.
Read more about the bridge – here.
