Category: House Design

The Owyang House – Global Design News

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San Jose, California, USACategory: Private Homes Year: 2022 Architects: Swatt Miers Architects Lead Architects: Robert Swatt Design Team: Swatt Miers Architects; RobertSwatt FAIA, Angie Gormas Client: King and Vivian Owyang Contractor: Denis Matson General Contractor Photographers: Tim Griffith, Tim Griffith Photography The Owyang House is a new two-story 6,000 square foot home in Atherton, California, that replaces a 2,700 square foot, one-story 1950’s post and beam structure that suffered from low ceilings (7′- 3” at bottom of beams) and dark, claustrophobic interior spaces. The new home features exciting interior spaces, an abundance of natural light throughout, and strong indoor…Continue Reading

JM Architecture presents a custom-designed one-story prefabricated house shaped like a pinwheel

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Luino, Italy Jacopo Mascheroni of JM Architecture’s Pinwheel House is a pavilion-like, wooden house nestled in a glade of the oak tree forests typical of the lake region bordering Switzerland.A project shaped by the boundaries and topography of a small sloping plot, where the suitable buildable area corresponds to a natural terrace in the narrowest portion of the site. The design followed the building setbacks’ constraints and the need for a living area facing the lake valley. With one side parallel to the contour lines of the slope, and two sides aligned with the back lines, the simple geometry…Continue Reading

Chesil Cliff House for sale: The fall and fall of Grand Designs’ saddest home – and the marriage it helped end

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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines emailWhen Edward and Hazel Short put their life savings into building their fantasy home on the coast, they hope it will change their lives for the better and give their two children a fabulous childhood. Instead, more than 10 years on the luxury house is listed for sale at knockdown price, the couple’s marriage is over and millionaire Mr Short is still paying off some of the money he borrowed for the ambitious building project. It was first…Continue Reading

Students design & build affordable, energy-efficient home | UCR News

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A group of UC Riverside mechanical engineering undergrads started a year and a half ago with just a grant application and an idea. None of them had architectural or building construction experience. Yet they managed to obtain funding and design and build from the ground up a showcase house that will use solar electricity so wisely it doesn’t need to be connected to the grid. The floor plan of an eco-friendly house built by UCR undergrads. UCR graphic by Kristen Danforth Fresh off exhibiting a section of the house at a home design show in Orange County, the students were…Continue Reading

Design news: how to live on water, Issey Miyake and the best of the biennales | Design

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Discover the highlights of the upcoming London Design Biennale and a celebration marking 30 years of the Pleats Please clothes line. We also celebrate the joys of living on the waves in this month’s design news. For more stories on architecture, sustainable living and the creative industries, sign up for the monthly Design Review newsletter here.1 London Design Biennale highlightsTapestry in progress, by the Keiskamma Trust, Hamburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa from Eureka! at LDB Photograph: London Design Biennale Back for a fourth time, the London Design Biennale at Somerset House will include exhibitions from five continents in…Continue Reading

10 Home Design Trends Your Clients Will Love in 2024

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Stylish storage, bolder patterns and textures and colors beyond the whites and grays are expected to shake up home design in 2024. Houzz, a home renovation and design platform, weighs in with its predictions for the home trends gaining traction. Here’s Houzz’s list of what to watch.Blending the Backsplashes Backsplashes are becoming a bigger kitchen statement and stretching to new heights. In making the backsplash more of a focal point, designers are installing a slab of stone or quartz behind the range or countertop while keeping the surrounding backsplash in tile. The slab backsplash will usually match the kitchen…Continue Reading

Patricia Urquiola named interior designer of the year at Dezeen Awards 2023

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Spanish architect and designer Patricia Urquiola has been named interior designer of the year at the Dezeen Awards 2023 ceremony. The Designers of the Year category rewards the best emerging and established talent across architecture, interiors and design. It recognizes creatives whose innovative work has made a notable impact on the industry. Urquiola was awarded the prize at the Dezeen Awards 2023 party last week, which was hosted in partnership with Bentley.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Dezeen (@dezeen) Patricia Urquiola was named interior designer of the year at Dezeen Awards 2023 Born in Oviedo, Spain,…Continue Reading

BC housing: Standard designs to speed up builds

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The BC government is hoping a new approach will help encourage people to build new homes. The province’s Standardized Housing Design Project lays out standard home designs that will enable builders to cut down on design costs and approval times. “We’re trying to get the building process moved faster so that anyone, whether they’re a new building or a very experienced builder, can take a set design and get it straight through the local government to get it approved,” Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon explained Thursday. Kahlon says the program is similar to the post-war CMHC Catalog of Homes, adding BC…Continue Reading