Utz-Sanby Architects have designed this house in the Church Point suburb of Sydney, Australia.
The house has recently been listed for sale by the agents at McGrath – here.
Watch a video of the house – here.
Visit the website of Utz-Sanby Architects – here.
Read the full description of the house from the architects after the photos….
Spanish lighting manufacturer Luz Difusion have created the Struk lighting collection.
From Luz Difusion:
Struk is a lighting fixture made of a steel round structure covered by pieces of white noninflammable polyethylene mesh and plastic strips in white colour too. This collection has a suspension, ceiling and wall version.
The designer is Ricard Estruch. Influenced by arte povera, artistic movement born in Italy at the end of the sixties, means literaly “poor”. This movement used to introduce not very common materials –from industry, organic origin or common use- to make tridimensional pieces. He works in Barcelona.
Visit the Luz Difusion website – here.
Bercy Chen Studio designed the Annie Residence in Austin, Texas.
From the architects:
The house was built for two families in Austin and therefore is split into two living areas. The house consists of two pavilions connected by a glass hallway.
The design was greatly influenced by different regions and cultures. Both the use of the roof as an outdoor living space and the shading devices are derived from Moorish architecture. The body of water and the spatial continuity between inside and outside was inspired by Asian architecture. while the structural transparency of the volumes and the minimalist aspect of the interior was derived from Japanese pavilions.
The house is constructed of a modular steel frame. The frame is infilled with prefab thermasteel panels to minimize construction on-site waste. The structural frame is exposed, showing the construction process and articulating the house’s facades. The repetitive modular method, as well as the prefabrication allowed for greater efficiency during construction.
Visit the website of Bercy Chen Studio – here.
Down Low seating is a creation of San Francisco, California based Upwell Design.
From the Upwell:
Designed to accommodate those living-room sessions, casual meetings, TV, dining, and especially gaming – whatever your thing may be…keep it on the Down Low. The DL is flexible living room seating created to engage low, or typical seating height scenarios.
Visit the Upwell Design website – here.
The interior design for the Joule Hotel in Dallas, Texas, was created by the New York based studio of Tihany Design. Architect and designer Adam D. Tihany was inspired by Jules Verne’s novel: Journey to the Center of the Earth, as the working concept for the hotel, rooftop pool, restaurant and public spaces.
Visit the Tihany Design website – here.
Massimo Mariani Architects have designed the office headquarters for Cabel Industry, an Italian company that makes software for banks.
Visit Massimo Mariani Architects website – here.
Andrew Lowe, an industrial design student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, has sent us news of a modern bird feeder that he has recently completed.
Andrew says:
feeder is designed to attract blue jays and cardinals. feeder’s unique shape renders it squirrel proof and keeps sunflower seeds dry. The positioning of the flexible perches prevent smaller and larger birds from feeding. The feeder unscrews in 3 parts for refilling. Finished in pearlescent white with titanium finished accents.
Right now it’s just a one off, most of the parts were “printed” out of plastic on a 3D SLA printer.
Andrew is currently looking for a summer internship, visit his website – here.
SO Architecture designed the interior for the Rosso Restaurant in Ramat Yishay, a town in the valley of Yezre-el in the Northern part of Israel. The design was influenced and inspired by the geography of the local area. The rolling fields that surround the restaurant are found to be continued in the restaurant’s ceiling, which is built of thirty-six steel contoured structures, and covered by painted wood. The chairs and the wide windows are decorated in plant motives to enforce the connection with the surrounding scenery. When night falls, the lighting, which is between the ceiling beams, forms a warm and somewhat mysterious, atmosphere.
Visit the website of SO Architecture – here.
Italian furniture manufacturer DOC Mobili is preparing to exhibit at the 2009 Milan Furniture Fair in April, where they will show off their latest pieces, including their growing range of bedroom furniture.
Visit DOC Mobili’s website – here.
Photos of the recently completed exterior facade that architect Toyo Ito has designed for the new Suites Avenue Hotel in Barcelona, Spain, have begun to emerge.
Toyo Ito transformed what was previously a dull office building by creating a remarkable facade of undulating waves that he says was inspired by his love of the work of Antoni Gaudi.
Flickr user Ramiro Sánchez-Crespo has some photos – here.
Italian manufacturer Roberti Rattan have three new lines of outdoor furniture that will be on show at the upcoming 2009 Milan Furniture Fair in April.
Visit Roberti Rattan’s website – here.
IGLOO – Designed by Adriano and Veronica Balutto:
Architect Nicholas Day has designed this new house in the Malvern suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
The home has recently been listed for sale by the agents at RT Edgar – here.
Valerio Cometti, the founder of the Milan, Italy based firm V12 Design, has sent us the Icon Lamp, their latest creation for the Italian lighting manufacturer I TRE, which comes in a suspension and ceiling version.
From Valerio Cometti:
Icon owes its strong personality to its distinctive shape and to the juxtaposition of opaque and transparent materials. Icon is a large decorative lamp and I’m particularly pleased with the way the light projected by its own light source interacts with it: the vast opalescent disc on the bottom side of the lamp enhances the quality of the light emission and the glass ribbon creates an elegant ring of light that brings together the heart of Icon with the external environment. It is a precious light manufactured with a great deal of accuracy, beautifully finished with its liquid painted spun metal parts, seamlessly joined with pressed glass and plexiglass details.
Visit V12 Design’s website – here. Visit the I TRE website – here.
FRONT, an all-women group of Swedish designers, have created a new range of seating for Italian furniture manufacturer Moroso.
The collection makes a striking use of photographic images, an interweave of draped fabric and a photo of flying cushions, that are printed on a high-quality velvet used to cover two sofas and an armchair. The range is rounded off with a low table and a carpet with a picture of reflections of light and shadow ideally originating from a slightly open window, unseen, elsewhere. Therefore the creative process does not start from the product’s form but from a picture of that form. The work is centred around the manufacturing process, from design to finished product, in which the choice of photos and their processing are vital elements.
Visit the FRONT Design website – here. Visit Moroso’s website – here.
Australia’s Yellow Goat Design have added seven new lighting designs to their growing collection.
Visit the Yellow Goat Design website – here.
Sans Serif
A very quirky way to light a ceiling or wall. These long box shapes can be built in almost any combination of shapes and finishes. Modules can be added to each other to light very large areas.
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