Category: House Design

Malaysian architect couple turns single-storey PJ house into modern tropical home and office

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The pitched roof and gray facade peek out gently from behind lightly foliaged leopard trees amidst warm terracotta brick walls. Even though unassuming, it sports a unique look, with people in the neighborhood sometimes referring to it as the “triangle house”. Owned and designed by architect couple Oscar Tan and Cheryl Quan, House 8 was completed in December 2018 and is located in the established Section 12 neighborhood in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. The original house, which was estimated to be over 40 years old, was owned by an old couple who wanted to downsize their home. Tan and Quan had…Continue Reading

House Zero | 2022- Most Innovative House of The Year

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East Austin, Texas, USAArchitects: Lake|Flato Architects, Inc. Lead Architects: Lewis McNeel and Ashley Heeren Client: ICON Photographers: Casey Dunn Project DescriptionHouse Zero is the first in ICON’s “Exploration Series” pushing the boundaries of architecture using its proprietary concrete wall system. Beyond that, House Zero is a compelling and climate-responsive new home connecting its inhabitants to a native Texas landscape and an evolving Austin neighborhood fabric. Built for permanence and resilience, the plan allows for the flexibility of ever-evolving patterns of living and aging-in-place that a family experiences over the course of a lifetime. The design team collaborated with software…Continue Reading

IKEA to double its in-house design department

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“At IKEA, we want to offer desirable and affordable designs to customers around the world. But people´s demands and expectations change with time, and we need to develop too, to stay relevant in our offer continuously. For many years, as we grew our business and entered new markets, we kept our in-house design team roughly the same size. We see now, with our current expansion plans and movements to deliver to our vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people, it´s time to invest and add more in-house design competence to meet these needs and ambitions”, says…Continue Reading

Interior Design Trends 2023: Experts Share What’s in This Year

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At first, “interior design trends” can feel like an oxymoronic term. Decor doesn’t tend to undergo seasonal changes or flash-in-the-pan fads—furniture, textiles, art, and wall coverings are too cumbersome, too expensive, too enduring to update frequently. When you design a room, as the saying goes, you need to learn to live with it. For a long time. Yet the pendulum does swing, albeit over years and decades: 1970s shag-carpeted bohemianism gives way to 1980s glitzy excess, which gives way to 1990s palate-cleansing minimalism. So, as we enter 2023—and find interior solutions that are kind to both our sanity and the…Continue Reading

Architecture and Design News | Architectural Digest

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Inside a Minimalist Capsule Home Overlooking the British Coastline Today Architectural Digest travels to the Isle of Wight on England’s south coast to tour Saltmarsh House, a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) House of the Year 2023 shortlisted project. Sitting on the edge of a vast tidal marsh, this stunning pavilion home, designed by architect Níall McLaughlin, floats above the ground on a lightweight steel frame. Truly ingenious is the property’s structure, which was prefabricated off-site and lifted into place to minimize disruption to the surrounding nature reserve. Offering uninterrupted views of the marshes and bay beyond, this impressive…Continue Reading

City snubs Squire & Partners’ Custom House plans | News

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Show FullscreenSquire & Partners’ proposals to convert the capital’s grade I-listed Custom House into a 200-room hotel have been formally rejected by the City of London ahead of a planning inquiry that is due to kick off in January. Members of the City of London’s Planning and Transportation Committee this week voted unanimously to refuse the application, drawn up for Cannon Capital Developments and Globalgem Hotels. Officers opposed the scheme on the grounds that Squires’ proposals did not represent a high enough standard of design for the large neo-classical building, which has served as a base for HM Revenue…Continue Reading

July: Martian house | News and features

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Space scientists from the University of Bristol have consulted on a pioneering public art project to build a ‘Martian House’ at Harborside – and now the people of Bristol are invited to create the interior.The house has been designed to withstand the real environmental challenges faced on Mars and inspire ideas about how we can all live more sustainably. The brainchild of local artists and Watershed Pervasive Media Studio residents, Ella Good and Nicki Kent, the Building a Martian House project brings together space scientists, architects, engineers, designers and the public, to explore how we live and to stimulate…Continue Reading

This week Aston Martin revealed its first house design

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This week on Dezeen, car brand Aston Martin revealed the first house designed as part of its Automotive Galleries and Lairs residential design service, which launched last year. Designed as a collaboration between US studio S3 Architecture and the luxury carmaker, the angular black-cedar home is set to be built in Hudson Valley, New York. It will be the first property built as part of the carmaker’s service that aims to design bespoke spaces for its clients to show off their most cherished motorbikes. “Grandmaster of the white interior” Jan des Bouvrie dies aged 78 This week saw two high-profile…Continue Reading