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Posted on Wednesday, January 25 th, 2012 at 9:15 am by Gabril2011 ecohome Design Awards: Caterpillar House
On a bluff in the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel, Calif., the Caterpillar House sits as a striking illustration of exactly how sustainable objectives, client requirements, traditional values, as well as contemporary design can come with each other to form a home as beautiful as well as functional because the spectacular land surrounding this. One of the homeowner’s wishes was functions within tune together with her eco-minded concepts along with a design which reflected the actual beliefs in t...
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Posted on Thursday, September 22 nd, 2011 at 8:38 am by GabrilHillside Home Renovation Nakahouse by XTEN Architecture
Nakahouse is a residence in front of the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles, California, which became one of the projects assigned to XTEN Architecture to restore and modify the home of the sixties that had been demolished by creating lots of open space facing the exterior and coated the interior with white. The building is constructed from a series of terraces that are interconnected to take advantage of the geographical hillside terrain. The original foundations were not replaced because of the int...
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The Glass Pavilion by Steve Hermann
This house was designed by Steve Hermann and has named with “The Glass Pavilion House”, evoke pure minimalism, it is true that a small aspect is a bit outside of this trend, but without doubt all the surfaces around the house is minimalist. Since the line completely pure and definite, through a large area for the distribution of glazed transparent and simple, that does not mean it has less complication when designing a house that is unclear and very confusing. This architectural desi...
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Mountain Villa Scholl Residence by Studio B Architects
During the decades of 1950 and 60′s, a large number of the modernist architects and designers, among them were Mies Van Der Rohe, Richard Neutra and Charles and Ray Eames accepted the task of constructing model of houses that not too expensive but very efficient and elegant. Everything as a part of an architectural experiment. #gallery-4 { margin: auto; } #gallery-4 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gall...
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Mountain Villa: The Sugar Bowl Residence by John Maniscalco Architecture
Fully designed to meet the constraints of the environment and more particularly to heavy snowfall specific to the region and especially with a flat roof slightly inclined to the rear, a small spotlight on the beautiful Sugar Bowl Residence, a splendid mountain villa designed by the studio John Maniscalco Architecture and built in the area of Norden, California. With beautiful interior surface and a pleasant covered terrace upstairs, discover all the details of this dream cottage in pictures gall...
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Eco House Design: self-sufficient house in California
Design and environmental awareness. This is the commitment of the two American architects Linda Taalman and Alan Koch who made on the Mojave desert plateau, northeast of Los Angeles, a home-based and sustainable reduction of energy requirements by maximizing, through a system of large windows, sunlight. The project, called itHouse, is born in Los Angeles with the desire to bring as much as possible people to live a natural and sustainable. Thanks to a system of solar panels are producing their ...
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