Australian Beach House
Interior Architecture and Design
Clean, modern and carefully curated - this home on Austinmer Beach is an ideal Australian escape. The large open spaces and walls of glass give one the illusion of floating above the water.
Clean, modern and carefully curated - this home on Austinmer Beach is an ideal Australian escape. The large open spaces and walls of glass give one the illusion of floating above the water.
Designed by architecture firm Flathouse, this contemporary seven-layer Tokyo-based home is the perfect example of Japanese living. In a mere 280 sq ft they manage to fit the biscuit shop on the ground floor, using the metal staircase they connect the kitchen and the dining room on the 1.5 level, then the living space on second level, and finally the sleeping area on the top floor that is shared by all family members.
Peter Pichler took the challenge to build a luxury holiday home for a client who lives in a 60’s farmhouse close to Bolzano in Italy.
The challenge was to build a structure which enables guests to fully enjoy the experience of living in the middle of nature while keeping their own independence and privacy. The house floats on a base above the ground – lightness and light seem to be the watchwords of this structure.
The Skyhouse project, a 6,600-square-foot penthouse in lower Manhattan, might be the only apartment on the East Coast housing an 80 ft slide. Slide aside, the four year long, four floored project spearheaded by architect David Hotson and designer Ghislaine Viñas is a wondrous sight to behold.
Designed by Cincopatasalgato Architecture and located in San Salvador, El Salvador, the Costa Azul House is a private residence which embraces open space and enjoys views of the idyllic seaside. Warm and inviting, the residence is a direct reflection of the place it is located in – the sunny seaside of San Salvador.
Designed by the Japanese office Ma-Style Architects, the Light Walls House is a beautiful and minimal house located in Toyokawa, Japan. According to the architects, the site is in a shady location and gives an impression of darkness with the houses around intensifying the shadows.
Pullman Tour Eiffel just opened with the second sample of Mathieu Lehanneur ’s “Business Playground” concept : reinvention of the meeting room as a perfect illustration of the “blurring” of private and professional life.
Perrier-Jouët’s latest commissioned design work, Ephemerā’ by mischer’traxler, was revealed at Design Miami/ 2014.
Minneapolis-based designer Jonathan Muecke has been commissioned to create the Pavilion for the tenth anniversary of Design Miami/.
Muecke studied architecture at Iowa State, interning at the architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland before studying design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Located in the middle of the square in the city of Blaibach, Germany stands the Concert Hall designed by architect Peter Haimerl.
Haimerl's design brings forth a place to celebrate culture while maintaining the visual integrity and sound isolation for the surrounding neighborhood.
This minimalist loft in Yoro, Japan, was designed by the architecture studio Airhouse Design Office, based in Gifu, Japan.
New York
The TriBeCa Penthouse was created by Belgian designer Axel Vervoordt and Japanese architect Tatsuro Miki, in close collaboration with the hotel’s partners Ira Drukier and Robert De Niro. The 6,800 sq ft suite was inspired by the TriBeCa neighborhood’s industrial past fused with the ancient Japanese aesthetic of Wabi.
Corten House located in Sao Paulo, Brazil is the brain child of architect, Michael Kogan. From the outside, the house is largely characterized by the exterior facade made of Corten steel. The weathered rust-like texture contrasted with the stone, vertical wooden strips and glass creates immediate visual interest.
Specializing in limited edition furniture for galleries, private clients and site-specific work, London- based designer Faye Toogood is renowned for her preoccupation with materiality and experimentation.Her second collection of furniture and objects; Natura Morta: Assemblage No. 2 is no exception.
Paris
On its 100th anniversary, the Gustave-Eiffel-designed Hotel Vernet got an overhaul by Francois Champsaur, the interior designer from Marseilles who’s carved a niche decorating art collectors’ homes.
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