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Underground Home Designs - Swiss Mountain House Rocks!

Underground Home Designs - Swiss Mountain House Rocks!
Like this article? Share it: In underground home designs, this unusual house plan is the collaboration between the Netherlands architects at SeARCH and Christian Muller Architects. This underground home, located in the Swiss village of Vals, is set amidst a cluster of mountain houses and if you don’t look carefully you might miss it! The most striking thing about this stone house is the majestic Alpine view through a wide, elliptical opening in the hillside, revealing spacious outdoor entertaining areas that lead to the home’s main entrance. Please Leave a Comment Posted on December 3, 2009 7:23 PM Comments (3) What a great home.

Serralunga icona dell’innovazione al Salone del Mobile 2010 | ME All’appuntamento più importante di sempre per il mondo del design, il marchio italiano Serralunga si presenta rinnovato nella sua immagine con una mission più definita.“Ho preferito investire sul DNA della mia azienda per arrivare preparato al futuro. Dobbiamo andare oltre il prodotto e la produzione, e migliorare la capacità di progettare anche la comunicazione”- dichiara Marco Serralunga. Ore passate in ufficio, dentro una palestra o un locale: in una società che tende a rinchiuderti, Serralunga riscopre la voglia di stare all’aria aperta in compagnia di amici. Disegnata nel 1922 dai designer Knoll e Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, la poltrona Barcellona è ormai un pezzo di storia del design internazionale. Parla un linguaggio minimal il tavolo BANQUETE progettato da Calvi & Brambilla per il brand italiano Serralunga. La superficie del tavolo è realizzata con un nuovo materiale di legno misto a plastica appositamente creato per esterni.

The Power of Metaphor : Word Count Michael Lydon, a well-known writer on popular music since the 1960s, has for many years also been writing about writing. Lydon's essays, written with a colloquial clarity, shed fresh light on familiar and not so familiar aspects of the writing art. Here Lydon explores how metaphors have the power to "fuse fact and fancy." The word metaphor comes from the Greek metapherein, "carry over"; transfer is a synonym with Latin roots. If we call every word a metaphor, however, we reduce metaphor to a label. Instead, writing leaps the labeling limit by applying the power of metaphor to itself. Juliet is the sun. This sentence is inaccurate labeling. We read the sentence, hear the resonances of both words, and try to equate them. Metaphors pop up everywhere in writing. The light had an unreal greenish color, like light filtered through an aquarium tank. Proverbs are metaphors that convey good ideas in graphic images: "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." I compared him with Mr.

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