This prefab home also features many other sustainable materials which include: bamboo flooring, recycled countertops, adjustable thermal window protection, a porous driveway, FSC approved Brazilian hardwood and recycled aluminum siding, ventilating skylights, and a white “cool” roof.
The Ring faucet provides a frame to the circular dynamic movement of water falling over the edge. It is about experiencing and discovering the awe-inspiring beauty of water in a whole new way in our daily lives.
The Ring faucet has a simple and pure external form in order to emphasize the elemental beauty of water and to cater to different settings and interior design style requirements.
Traditional Japanese architecture has been highly affected since the Japanese nation decided to open its gates to the rest of the world. Although Japan made efforts to preserve traditional Japanese architecture features, western modern architecture has taken its tole and now we see more concrete and steel and flat-roofs terraces in modern Japanese houses.
Looking at the Villa Kaleidoscope Japanese house design, it seems the exterior walls of the house ground and upper floors are roughly hexagonal in shape with the interior walls laid out in honeycomb design.
Consistent with its focus on sustainable design, this Wired prefabricated home features a forced hot air radiant heating and cooling system; recycled glass bathroom countertops; Heath ceramic tile; low-maintenance high-design ecological kitchen cabinetry; an environmentally friendly washer/dryer system that uses less water and energy; windows and doors constructed with recycled glass and aluminum; reclaimed redwood milled from old military barracks; FSC-certified exterior siding; tankless water heaters; and LED lights that consume less energy than conventional light bulbs.
As you enter this amazing tree house which is the home and architectural office of Steven Isaacs and Lisa Saville, you can hear the sound of leaves. With soaring eucalypts all around the plot in Australia’s Hunters Hill, what else can you possibly need?
Japanese house designs by Daigo Ishii are based on the concept where the architecture should be realized through the relationship with society.
“…I want to realize an architecture that reflects and criticizes the society, based on the analysis of the actual society.” says Daigo Ishii, owner of Future-scape Architects in Tokyo, Japan.
The Easyglider personal transporter - is that the coolest way to go to work, or what? Hop on that Easyglider in the morning, casually cruising the boulevards and taking those easy turns on the sidewalk. No more waiting for snow; no more getting ready for the lakes: Now it’s easy to glide anywhere.
A classic example for a modern architecture design is Mies van der Rohe’s The Farnsworth House. As one of a long series of house projects, the Farnsworth House embodies a certain aesthetic culmination in Mies van der Rohe’s experiment with this building type. This beautiful house is perhaps the fullest expression of modernist ideals that had begun in Europe, but which were consummated in Plano, Illinois.
“I pointed out to him (Mies) that it (a glass house) was impossible because you had to have rooms, and that meant solid walls up against the glass, which ruined the whole point. Mies said, ‘I think it can be done.’” Philip Johnson speaking at a symposium held at the School of Architecture, Columbia University, 1961.
Hamleys playhouses provide a world of joy and wonder for kids to play with. The magnificent Tudor Playhouse looks as if it has been taken out of a children fairytale.
The tiny house Microflat, by Piercy Conner architects and designers, is a small house, efficiently designed at high quality. This house is tiny, thus making a great example for the current evolving compact houses concept modern architecture design.