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Apr 25

The glamorous Foothill House in Paradise Valley, Arizona, is up for sale. If you have $10 million lying around and are in search of a unique, exquisite residence for you and your family, this could be your dream home. The contemporary two level house is surrounded by a 10 acre property where owners can enjoy a myriad of features – from the staggering eight bedroom set of private spaces to the relaxing mini golf course on the premises. Let’s take a look at the inviting interiors – the single family home features twelve bathrooms, two large family rooms for socializing in an intimate atmosphere, a library for those inspiring moments alongside needful knowledge, a fitness room and a circular pool keeping the inhabitant’s bodies fit with a spa to relax in afterwards and a majestic kitchen with formal and informal dining spaces – all gathered under the roof of this 12,860 square foot modern house. Everything about this residence screams luxury and we would love to see one of our readers get their hands on such a property.
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Apr 25

This video shows an interview Piero Lissoni, a Milanese architect and designer. Lissoni approaches his work with a mastery of proportion and an acute sensitivity for the subtlety that distinguishes the common from the insightful, never designing for a specific function or purpose, but designing for human beings. He began his career in 1978 having gained his architecture degree at the Milan Polytechnic and in 1985 started with Boffi Kitchens as Art Director & Designer. With Nicoletta Canesi he founded the architectural firm Lissoni Associates in Milan in 1986, and ten years later lent his vision to Graph.x, a graphic design company. Lissoni’s projects are often total designs that are full-scale interiors and architecture of offices and showrooms, yachts, private homes, and hotels. He is also the author of recognized projects of industrial design, graphic design, corporate identity, advertising and packaging. In recent years, he has designed luxury hotels such as the Monaco & Grand Canal in Venice, the Al Porto hotel on Lake Zurich, the Bentley Design Hotel in Istanbul, and the Mitsui Garden Ginza Hotel in Tokyo, He is a winner of 20 international design awards like “Best of the Best” and the “International Award Cologne” in 2010. During the interview, Lissoni shares with us his design philosophy.
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Apr 25

A wall of wooden scales folds through the glazed facade of this house and studio that Korean architects AND designed for an artist in South Korea. As the panels emerge behind the glass they begin to separate from one another, creating a series of openings that permit views across from the double height studio to the living quarters behind. The wall also curves upward to wrap and conceal a bedroom on the first floor. Find out what architects said about this project.
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Apr 25

Storing books and other decorative objects may seem like a practical matter, but shelving has transcended the mundane and entered the realm of creativity. Who says a bookshelf can’t be a canvas for an eye-catching arrangement of reading materials and vases? And what if the shelf itself were a work of art?
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Apr 25

Interior designer Rees Roberts collaborated with Steven Harris Architects to create a stunning modern house located in Cabo San Lucas. The private residence named Casa Finisterra boasts building materials like concrete, stone, metal and glass. Composed of private courtyards and elegantly designed interiors, the house on the Baja Peninsula overlooks sparkling waters and was designed to appear as part of the landscape, with large expanses of glass opening the interiors towards the views. A neutral color palette including white, beige, and grey was pierced by dark accents and adorned with minimalist furniture to create a calming effect and avoid taking the focus off the surrounding landscape. Stone patios connect the volumes of the house and act as part of the interior/exterior space arrangement, allowing inhabitants to make the most of such a splendid location.
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Apr 24

Located in a fascinating landscape of the Atlantic rainforest, the Iporanga House in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was designed to occupy as little terrain as possible, but still be large enough to shelter 5 distinctive suites – one for the client couple, one for each of their 3 sons and an additional guest suite. Nitsche Arquitetos Associados made sure the house was perfectly adapted to the surroundings and built a 400 square meter interior floor plan: “So we decided to split the program in 3 levels: a suspended volume, wood structured for the 5 suites, so they would be on the trees´ crown/top; a plan, the concrete slab elevated from the ground to support all of the program social activities, living, dining room the kitchen and the swimming pool; and underneath it, on ground level there is a small enclosed area for services.
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Apr 24

This video shows an interview with a Swiss architect Milena Cvijanovich, who is the Founding Principal of MCM Design Studio which specializes in international luxury residential and commercial architecture. The studio puts an emphasis on alternative energy solutions and sustainability. Cvijanovich has developed an innovative mode of travel and relaxation, one that harmonizes luxury with sky, water and earth. Instead of being at odds with the environment, her studio has conceived of a nomadic island that transports one to an unmatched equilibrium. During the interview, she talks about the background of the Island(E)motion project – a revolutionary sustainable floating vessel concept.
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Apr 24

This unique building was designed by Architect David Jameson and it called NaCl House. The building is located in Bethesda, Maryland. Architect wrote about this project: “Breaking the prescriptive mold of horizontally layered homes, NaCl House aspires to render unclear the spatial organization of the project and explore an architecture of ambiguous scale. The resultant massing reveals an imperfect, rough-hewn form recalling the natural isometric formation of mineral rock salt.
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