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The Owyang House – Global Design News

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San Jose, California, USA Category: 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

Architects 49 House Design completes a modernist office venue, developing both contemporary indoor working stations and an outdoor activity space

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Bangkok, Thailand Architects 49 House Design have created the new, modernist office building for Pine-Pacific Corporation, located between the company’s former mineral warehouse and its current headquarters. Warehouse 12 as it is known is comparable to a central connecting link that merges the various working functions together, housing offices, laboratories, a cafeteria, and meeting rooms. Τhe project has been awarded a 2021 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The initial concept, inspired by an abundance of trees between the new extension and the…Continue Reading

House Zero | 2022- Most Innovative House of The Year

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East Austin, Texas, USA Architects: 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

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

MARTA Airport station closing for renovations, starting April 8

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MARTA CEO and General Manager Collie Greenwood (above) said this renovation is necessary to ensure the safety of both riders and workers. Photo by Isaiah Singleton/The Atlanta Voice The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) will close its Airport Station for six weeks from Monday, April 8 through Sunday, May 19 to renovate the concourse and platform levels. Fortunately, MARTA service will continue to and from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport via a bus shuttle between College Park Station and the North Terminal Lower Level, downstairs from North Baggage Claim, 22 hours a day, 4 am to 2 am MARTA officials…Continue Reading

Ontario legislature renovation ‘a touch’ delayed, minister says

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Work to renovate Ontario’s legislature is still in relatively early planning stages, but it has already seen “a touch” of a delay, the minister in charge of the $1-billion-plus undertaking said Tuesday. Legislative Affairs Minister Paul Calandra’s comments came after the committee he tasked with overseeing the rehabilitation heard from staff about a multitude of exterior considerations for the project — from the more than 30 statues, monuments and plaques on the grounds, to the three Japanese flowering cherries trees, to the subway and “abandoned and unknown” infrastructure that lies below. The director of the precinct properties branch told the…Continue Reading

McPherson Youth Center in Beverly receives $1 million for renovations | News

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BEVERLY- As part of Massachusetts’ $175 million congressionally directed spending bill passed earlier this month, The McPherson Youth Center in Beverly will receive $1 million to renovate, modernize and expand the campus space to serve the city and neighboring town’s youth. Built more than 50 years ago, the Myles McPherson Youth Center is a collaboration with the City of Beverly and the Greater Beverly YMCA that supports the recreational and developmental needs of local youth. The building acts as a drop-in style center where youth ages 11-18 can shoot pool, use the computer lab, participate in fitness programs, skateboard at…Continue Reading