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Bring nature into your urban modern bathroom with a carpet that exists out of moss! When I first saw this, I thought it was a reproduction of the real thing, but it isn't.
Moss carpet for your bathroom | Veerle's blog 3.0
Bathroom Design 01 Mixed Media by Benjamin Bullins - Bathroom Design 01 Fine Art Prints and Posters for Sale
This original mixed media is currently for sale. At the present time, originals are not offered for sale through the FineArtAmerica secure checkout system. Please contact the artist directly to inquire about purchasing this original. Bathroom Vanity designed around a French Theme. Bike vanity constructed from an old discarded bike with a sleek sink.
Click here to purchase a photo When Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream.
Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie | Heraldleaderphoto.com
One. Countdown begins before Christmas! And timely enough I've found these beautiful Christmas lights adorned bedrooms. They are so lovely I can't stand it!
Christmas Lights in 8 Bedrooms - wave avenue
Image of the Week: Light Pollution Over Chicago – Urban Times
Source: theurbn.com/tag/image-of-the-week/ When I learned I had the chance to shoot from the roof of one of Chicago’s tallest towers , The John Hancock Center, I was ecstatic – and a bit scared. Heights and I never got long.
Dieter Rams garden portrait by Philip Sinden D ieter Rams is not comfortable with fame. He might be a superstar designer, but if the raised German tones I heard when this was suggested are an indication of his feelings towards this title, he would not want to be remembered in that way. Sitting in a bar on the top floor of a hotel in Osaka three years ago, at the opening of his seminal exhibition ' Less and More ', Rams was deep in conversation about this very subject proclaiming that he was not a star designer, or at the very least, did not wish to be. Braun ET 55 - Design Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs Rams is not 'in it' for the fame or money, nor does he want the world to buy his latest designs but simply to use the products that he and the design team at Braun , during his tenure, worked so tirelessly to create.
Good Design is as Little Design as Possible | Yatzer
Built literally on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, by MOS Architects , Floating House is a private dwelling produced in such a way that it is unaffected by the lakes' drastically varying water levels. From month-to-month, year-to-year, the house adapts to the water level change by floating atop of a structure built atop steel pontoons. "Using traditional construction processes would have been prohibitively expensive; the majority of costs would have been applied toward transporting building materials to the remote island. Instead, we worked with the contractor to devise a prefabrication and construction process that maximized the use of the unique character of the site: Lake Huron as a waterway. Construction materials were instead delivered to the contractor’s fabrication shop, located on the lake shore. The steel platform structure with incorporated pontoons was built first and towed to the lake outside the workshop.
HUH. Magazine - The Floating House
Weekend Cabin isn’t necessarily about the weekend, or cabins. It’s about the longing for a sense of place, for shelter set in a landscape…for something that speaks to refuge and distance from the everyday. Nostalgic and wistful, it’s about how people create structure in ways to consider the earth and sky and their place in them. It’s not concerned with ownership or real estate, but what people build to fulfill their dreams of escape. The very time-shortened notion of “weekend” reminds that it’s a temporary respite. Weekend Cabin is a new feature to Adventure Journal, appearing on Fridays, and this first one kicks off with a collection of images gathered from the nooks and crannies of Tumblr — classic weekend cabins, set in or near the woods, probably slightly musty, and most definitely stocked with well-used games of Yahtzee and jigsaw puzzles with a few pieces missing.
The Weekend Cabin - adventure journal
Your home will have more natural lighting than a conventional home. If you feel that all earth sheltered homes are dark, damp and dreary, you have a real surprise coming. Call us!
Earth Sheltered Technology, Inc. - 25 Reasons Why You Should Consider Earth Sheltered Living
The most interesting man in the room | Coffee with an Architect
I’m an Architect. I’m the most interesting man in the room. I’m wearing all black. I’m near sighted, but have compensated with extremely attractive and/or expensive eyewear. I have radical mood swings. But, only on the inside.
Chemical-free water garden and swimming pool. The plant portion, or regeneration zone, is separated from the swimming area by the wall seen a few inches below the water’s surface. www.naturalswimmingpools.com The pools have skimmers and pumps that circulate the water through the regeneration zone and back into the swimming area. The aquatic plants filter out contaminants and use nutrients from the water as food which helps prevent algae.
Natural Pools or Swimming Ponds
With this immersive installation, French artist Serge Salat invites visitors to take a journey through endless layers of space, decked out with cubic shapes, panels of mirrors, shifting lights and music. “Beyond Infinity” is a multi-sensory, multimedia experience that blends Eastern Chinese with Western Renaissance. Inspired by the Suzhou Gardens, a masterpiece of Chinese landscape, the three-lined trigram of I Ching is the main pattern that organizes the space of the work. Salat uses mirrors as optical illusions, exploding a single room into spatial infinity.