Building a house over water can be challenging, but floating homes offer a unique way to connect with the landcape.
When Vandeventer + Carlander Architects, LLC were asked to create a Lake Union residence, it was assumed that they would be thinking outside the box, but oddly this time their thinking was required to be within a box. The Lake Union Floating home, located in the heart of downtown Seattle, is not the only residence of its kind, although it is far from being a commonplace building type in the United States. The landscape in the Seattle region is interlaced with waterways and has a long tradition of floating homes that take advantage of the area's gorgeous scenery. However, construction of the Lake Union Floating home presented challenges as well as advantages, and Vandeventer + Carlander Architects’ design navigated the site’s limitations while capturing its many assets.
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席卷美国建筑前面的趋势包括大转移到室外。在户外生活空间，已经取得了令人难以置信的普及，这一个念头是户外厨房。随着热浪滚滚热浪压迫民族，美国人希望他们一起在大睁烧烤履行自己的炉灶操作。随着住房市场仍在下滑，房主也在寻找方法来增加属性值和住宿内容有原地踏步。我们采访了约书亚英格拉哈姆设计的室内设计师约书亚·英格拉哈姆，谁提供了一些他最好的建议进行有效地结合了室外厨房到你家。
这一点并不奇怪，在这温暖的季节里，我们将更多的我们的注意力向室外。喝着冷饮顶上舒适的休息室和后院烧烤的想法瞬间浮现在脑海中，在夏天色变。最近几年，但是，已经带来了美元，用于改善我们的户外生活空间的时间大大增加，设计师们响应这一趋势，并寻求向我们提供我们的理想后院天堂。我们与风水大师和 Bante设计有限责任公司的室内设计师迪安娜Radaj了解户外生活，创造完美的假期讲话。< / p > < / div >
组织和制造商一直在研究绿色建材即时多年，具有广泛的绿色环保产品的利差持续倾斜开发商和建筑商淹没的市场。最近开发的产品超越减少排放和废物消除大气中的污染物。新烟雾灭火技术和产品仍处于测试，但一些将可以购买到2012年，它们的引入到市场，然而，即将到来的问题无数。 城市生活有许多优点 - 增加适宜步行，方便的公共交通，以及丰富的东西在该地区做的，别人的主机中。城市定位的一个缺点，但是，生活在一个通常伴随着城市生活的空间更小。Size limitations can make designing a home – whether a house, duplex, or apartment – quite problematic. Renting, rather than owning, puts further constraints on what improvements can be made. To tackle these challenges, we spoke with Cleveland-based architect Robert Donaldson of MOD{all}Studio and Los Angeles celebrity interior designer Michelle Workman to share some ideas for designing small spaces. Most of us don’t ever really think about shipping containers unless we work in logistics or caught the second season of The Wire. They have been steadily making their way into the architectural world -- their low cost and ambulatory nature making them appropriate in a variety of contexts, such as upscale housing and small workplaces or getaways. The creativity of these spaces emerges with the challenge of fitting design into a box, quite literally. Here, however, we will examine that creativity a bit further in a few other uses, while discussing shipping container design with Pittsburgh-based architect Gary P. Moshier of Moshier Studio.
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如果您有运行到几个街区捡起一加仑牛奶，你会扔在你的运动鞋专卖店，或者你会开车吗？有些人会津津乐道的机会得到一点新鲜空气和锻炼。More often than not, however, the majority of us will drive. If parking cost a dollar at the grocery store, however, would you make the same decision? This is the phenomenon being explored by many urban planning experts these days, including Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking and staunch critic of the policies dictating those expansive asphalt plains covering urban areas throughout the United States. Shoup decries parking requirements for a variety of reasons, and his 681-page volume can hardly be summarized in this article. Some key points, however, are of great interest to anyone interested in the sustainability of our urban areas, our citizens, or the environment at large.
Construction is underway on the campus of Bowling Green State University (BGSU). If all goes according to plan, the Wolfe Center for the Collaborative Arts will be finished in 2011. The timing seems perfect, given that the university recently dubbed the arts its first “Center of Excellence.” This gorgeous building by up-and-coming Norwegian-based architectural firm Snohetta will most certainly bring attention to and validate the importance of the arts programs.
作为著名的R中的一个是环震得在环保和可持续发展的倡导者的词汇，再利用找到进入绿色设计 - 体现在一切从reupholstering家具给人一种茶几新鲜涂漆层。在一个规模较大，但是，可持续发展的设计已经将宗教场所（是的，双关语意）新的，新鲜的，有时极具创意的目的，新的突破。教堂的适应性再利用，就像任何其他的再利用项目，可以用成本和挑战会见。不过，看来，这复活这些空间不仅能够提供对环境但对企业和社区，以及巨大的利益。
房主并没有很重视，在过去的卫生间，但近年来卫浴一直受到密切关注在设计界 - 和消费者都想要更多。因为浴室是这么小的空间，其呈现在寻找平衡的和尖锐的设计和装饰一些挑战。我们已经与有关的卫浴设计目前的趋势，以及一些想法，专家设计师聊将这些新鲜元素。
春季大扫除是指日可待，只有跟着春天的装饰！五名室内设计师给我们如何给我们的空间清澈的泉水样子没有打破银行的提示。